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NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE NEWS

s Republican Leadership Supports Suit to Allow Health Care Freedom Raleigh – The fight for health care freedom continues in North Carolina. Yesterday, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown (R-Onslow), House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R-Wake) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of […]

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N.C. HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES ABORTION BILL

Carolina Journal Exclusives Rhetorical Bullets Fly As House Committee OKs Abortion Bill Measure on fast track, now moves to House floor By David N. Bass May 12, 2011 RALEIGH — Is pregnancy punishment? Is the process of getting an abortion comparable to refinancing a mortgage? Do abortion providers disproportionately target African-American women? Those were some

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OBAMACARE EXCHANGES

FayObserver.com http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/04/06/1082818?sac=Opin Don’t rush ObamaCare exchange by Joel Coletti,   John Locke Foundation Fresh from their vote against ObamaCare’s individual mandate, state legislators began work to implement an ObamaCare health insurance exchange. Legislators who took a principled stand against one form of federal overreach are now complicit in another. Why? Republicans, Democrats, health insurers, care providers

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MITT ROMNEY’S OBAMACARE PROBLEM

MAY 12, 2011 Obama’s Running Mate Mitt Romney’s ObamaCare problem. Mitt Romney travels to Ann Arbor today to deliver what his campaign bills as a major address laying out his “2012 principles for health-care reform.” These are likely to be sensible, but what we’ll be listening for is how he explains his health-care principles of

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ALASKA PIPELINE IS AT RISK

MAY 11, 2011 Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk By RUSSELL GOLD As less oil runs through the Alaska Pipeline, the crude it carries is cooling. This is raising the risk of ice formation and waxy buildup. WSJ’s Russell Gold reports from Alaska. FAIRBANKS, Alaska—When the famed Trans Alaska Pipeline carried two million

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CANADA MAKES A RIGHT TURN

MAY 4, 2011 The country skipped the housing bust and its budget is headed toward balance. Voters liked it. By DAVID GRATZER In the winter of 1997, two Canadian conservatives wrote a stark essay arguing that conservative governance was an unlikely prospect for their country. The governing Liberal Party was the most electorally successful party

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OBAMA’S RATIONING – THE REAL MEDISCARE

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Mediscare Obama’s rationing is the thing to worry about. Mark Hemingway May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Unlike other federal agencies with regulatory powers, IPAB is subject to no external review process—no public notification in advance of proposed rules, no opportunity for

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CHINA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL PROJECT IS IN TROUBLE

APRIL 25, 2011 Notable & Quotable Journalist Charles Lane writing on China’s high-speed rail project in the Washington Post. Journalist Charles Lane writing April 22 in the Washington Post: For the past eight years, Liu Zhijun was one of the most influential people in China. As minister of railways, Liu ran China’s $300 billion high-speed

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HOW HEALTH REFORM PUNISHES WORK

APRIL 25, 2011 The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. By DANIEL P. KESSLER Mr. Kessler is professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly

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