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Op-Ed: Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis

Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: How much is your brain worth?

Jeffrey Cummings

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

How much is your brain worth? It is the three-pound universe that comprises all you know of yourself and your world. It is the most valuable organ you have and is more sophisticated than any...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Steven Miller: Barack Obama's Smoking Gun

Tom Fitton

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

President Obama has now had his Nixonian "I'm not a crook" moment, taking to the airwaves to feign angry indignation about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his enemies while denying any...
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Obamacare, Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: Obamacare isn't about health care, it's about power

Jim DeMint

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: D.C. mayor still discriminating against charter school students

Robert Crane

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray pledged throughout his 2010 mayoral campaign to end years of systematic city underfunding of the District's public charter school students compared to their peers in the...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: IRS that targeted Tea Party groups also targeted me

Justin Binik-Thomas

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

In March 2012, The Washington Examiner published my op-ed entitled "Why is the IRS asking Tea Party groups if they know me?" The IRS, at the time, denied that conservative groups were being...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Think Tank Takes: Electoral College was Framers' antidote to popular vote

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Article II of the Constitution gives states broad authority to decide how their electoral votes are selected and divided among the candidates. In 48 states, the candidate who gets the most votes...
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Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: Don't kill D.C.'s vibrant food trucks

Baylen J. Linnekin

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Today, the District of Columbia Council's Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs Committee will hear testimony on proposed regulations that could spell doom for the District's popular food...
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Manhattan, Op-Eds, Columnists

Manhattan Moment: Medicaid decision gives states a bargaining chip with feds

Yevgeniy Feyman

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

As the most recent in a string of states making decisions about their Medicaid programs, Missouri has tabled the Obamacare expansion of its Medicaid program for at least a year. Four other...
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Op-Ed: Raising minimum wage will kill jobs for young Millennials

Evan Feinberg

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Young Americans looking for work could receive another crushing blow this week as the U.S. Senate will decide Thursday whether to confirm Thomas Perez as the next secretary of labor. Perez has...
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Gun Control, Op-Eds, Opinion

Op-Ed: NRA may have taken premature victory lap

Neil W. McCabe

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

By most any measure, the 142th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association in Houston was a success, but the victory lap mood in the room could set up gun owners for a huge disappointment....
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Think Tank Takes: Air quality gains continue to grow

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

The reduction in air pollution continues to be the most successful domain of pollution reduction since the first Earth Day in 1970. Since the first edition of this Almanac of Environmental Trends...
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Op-Eds, Columnists, Opinion

Sunday Reflection: Op-Ed: Legal abortion is killing mothers, too

Elise Ehrhard

Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

In recent weeks, the abortion rights movement has been arguing that Kermit Gosnell is an example of what America would look like without Roe and that his very existence is actually the fault of...
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Op-Ed: A not-so-taxing decision on Internet sales

Nicole Gelinas

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

Is the Marketplace Fairness Act fair? To anti-tax advocates' chagrin, Democrats and Republicans have finally found something they agree on. Next week, they'll likely pass a bill requiring online...
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Op-Ed: Liberal academics use 'climate science' to suppress independent thinkers

Anthony J. Sadar

Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

"Progressivism" is the modern morph of socialism. And socialism is all about its own power, so it doesn't take too kindly to independence and independent thinking in others. Much of the...
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