THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support […]
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JULY 16, 2011 The HHS rule for state health markets will mean fewer choices. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: HHS, unsurprisingly, envisions the exchanges as 50 (or more) new regulatory agencies designed to let politics run health markets, while letting Washington give orders to the states. The word “require” appears 811 times in the 244-page rule
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JULY 15, 2011 Cellulosic Ethanol and Unicorns The EPA punishes oil refiners for not buying a product no one makes. Today’s pop quiz: What happens if the government mandates the consumption of a product that doesn’t exist? Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to punish the gasoline refiners because they can’t buy a type
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July 15, 2011 By David Limbaugh 7/15/2011 Ordinarily, I’d have difficulty grasping the magnitude of arrogance driving President Obama in budget negotiations that could determine the survival of our nation, but after several painful years of observation, I’ve come to expect it from him.Obama’s personality type does not well handle opposition, so when House Majority
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JULY 14, 2011 Congressional rules require public proposals and specific numbers that can be openly debated. By MICHAEL W. MCCONNELLMr. McConnell was assistant general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981-83 and is now a professor of constitutional law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. After sending
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JULY 12, 2011 The savings from government funding cuts to graduate medical education aren’t worth the negative effect on patients. By HERBERT PARDES AND EDWARD D. MILLERDr. Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Miller is dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Seeking to reduce the federal budget, Democratic and Republican
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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Sarah Palin’s Notes Notes About Sarah Palin The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders by Sarah Palin on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:22pm Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that
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NEWS & OBSERVER Sat, Jul 09, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road
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