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WHY MEDICARE PATIENTS SEE THE DOCTOR TOO MUCH

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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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KRUGMAN; ‘I DIDN’T MEAN THAT STIMULUS!’

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3:25 AM 07/12/2011 by Mickey Kaus Paul Krugman now says that some kinds of Keynesian stimulus spending just aren’t as effective as other kinds. Specifically, he suggests, aid to state and local governments (to enable them to keep government workers in their jobs) is a sort of second-class stimulus: So what happened to the stimulus? Much of it

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THE GLOBAL TEMPER TANTRUM

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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.

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PALIN – THE SUGAR DADDY HAS RUN OUT OF SUGAR

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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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KRAUTHAMMER – BEWARE OBAMA’S DEBT TRAP

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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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NOT TAKING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY

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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Isn’t that the morally decent thing to do? Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future. July 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 41 The problem with

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PAWLENTY – BEYOND MINNESOTA NICE

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JULY 8, 2011 Beyond Minnesota Nice Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty brags that as governor he stared down Democrats on taxes and spending, but can he sell it to conservative voters? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Ask Mitt Romney to opine about his time managing a blue state, and the former Massachusetts governor will mostly take

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TWO GREAT VIDEOS – SPENDING CUTS IN PERSPECTIVE AND THE FREE MARKET

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Thanks to a young Republican, Brady Nemeth, for sharing these two educational links. These are two great videos that just came out today. They’re both short and to the point (the first is just 1 minute, the second is roughly 5 minutes), and leave out any politics, which means that they are great for sharing

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