May 2, 2016

Why Is Health Care So Much More Expensive Than It Used To Be?

(John Hinderaker) We don't normally just steal posts from others, but this one deserves it: Glenn Reynolds writes: ANALYSIS: TRUE. Every Industry Gets Worse When Government Gets Involved. "This is easily provable with Public Choice Theory, and consistently proven in practice." I would add two points about the chart. First, the increased cost of health care obviously has something to do with the metastasizing administrators. But it also is caused, in part,

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West Virginia County Officials: 'Bill and Hillary Clinton Are Simply Not Welcome in Our Town'

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Inside the Beltway: Is national media ready for 'a mob of conservatives'?

"Why aren't we having a national conversation about leftist violence?" asks David Harsanyi, a senior editor for TheFederalist.com, following recent unruly protests against Donald Trump in California.

"If a mob of conservatives attempted to shut down a major Hillary Clinton event, as rioters did the other day during a Donald ...

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Russell Wilson Posts Stunning Photo Of His Fiancé On Instagram [PHOTOS]

She doesn't leave much to the imagination

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Coghill says he's recommending lawmakers drop Medicaid suit

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Senate Majority Leader John Coghill said Monday he has recommended that lawmakers drop their lawsuit challenging Gov. Bill Walker's authority to expand Medicaid on his own.

Coghill, R-North Pole, said the issue has gotten wrapped up in the politics surrounding Medicaid expansion and adds to ...

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Puerto Rico Defaults On Massive Debt Payment, Continues Negotiations

'I decided that essential services for the 3.5 million American citizens in Puerto Rico came first'

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The future of digital lead generation

magnet Lead generation has come a long way. The way in which leads were developed during Roman times was through word of mouth. As technology advances, the way in which leads are acquired also changes. Before understanding how far we've come today, and where we're going, we must understand where lead generation started. Read More

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Reps Take A Stand Against Medicare Proposal They Say Would 'Severely Harm' Access

'Severely harm patient access to needed drugs'

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High schooler's 3D printed 'mini-brain' bioreactor accelerates Zika research

A  What are you planning on doing this summer? Probably not designing a revolutionary new bioreactor in which a thousand "mini-brains" can undergo testing. You're probably not designing a bioreactor at all! But New York high schooler Christopher Hadiono did just that, and his powerful and efficient 3D-printed machine is now beginning to make waves. Read More

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Clinton Walks Back Coal Remarks After Confrontation in West Virginia

The Democratic front-runner got an earful during a campaign stop in Williamson, West Virginia.

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The Labour Party Rot Deepens

(John Hinderaker) Britain's Labour Party has been roiled by a series of blatant anti-Semitic incidents involving members of Parliament and other party officials. Now, the Telegraph reports that the publicly announced dismissals of anti-Semites, totaling thirteen, may be only the beginning: Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments as officials struggle to cope with the crisis engulfing the party. Senior sources reveal that Labour's compliance unit

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Coal Miner to Clinton: How Are You Going to Be Our Friend?

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Tennessee campus carry becomes law without Haslam signature

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill allowing staff and faculty at Tennessee's public colleges and universities to be armed on campus became law Monday without the Republican governor's signature.

Gov. Bill Haslam said in a statement that he disagreed with the bill for not allowing institutions "to make their own ...

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State Dept Lets Untrained Drivers Operate Tanks, At Least 13 Have Died

13 have died at the hands of untrained drivers since 2010

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Venture investments in new manufacturing technologies could reshape American industry

3d printer classroom A wave of venture investment into new manufacturing startups looks set to transform American manufacturing. While the foundations for these companies may have been laid in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco, the startups that are driving this next industrial revolution hail from more unlikely hubs of technology innovation in the smaller urban centers of the Sun Belt and the Southeast. Read More

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Justice for Clay: A True Story Of The Cruel And Unusual Punishment Of A Brain Damaged Veteran

barthA cry for help

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Will Ted Cruz's Delegate Wrangling Be For Naught?

Ken Cuccinelli, director of delegate operations for the Ted Cruz campaign, discusses fight to win delegates and the state of the Texas senator's campaign on "With All Due Respect."

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DNC Chair: Sanders Wrong About Dem Primary Rules, Ironic He's Criticizing Process While Using It to Seek Nomination

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Obama's Merrick Garland Supreme Court campaign shifts to Senate elections

President Obama took to the airwaves Monday to pressure six Republican senators in their home states over his Supreme Court nominee, amid signs that Democrats are shifting their focus to winning control of the Senate in November rather than filling the high court vacancy.

Mr. Obama conducted interviews at the ...

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Woman Sues Charity, Says 'Multicultural' Internship Is Only For Non-Whites

Claims Irish, Italian, German heritage should be plenty multi-cultural

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SoundCloud turns on ads and Go premium subs in the UK and Ireland

ScGo_LandingPage_Desktop_UK Now that SoundCloud has inked licensing deals with all of the big music rightsholders, the startup is wasting no time rolling out subscription services and advertising to a wider number of markets to better monetise its 175 million users, and to compete better against the likes of Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music and the rest. The music-streaming company — sometimes referred to as the… Read More

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Bernie Sanders Makes His Case to Superdelegates

John Heilemann and Nicolle Wallace discuss Bernie Sanders and the case he will make to Democratic superdelegates in the case of a contested convention on "With All Due Respect."

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More affordable health insurance option urged for Washington

SEATTLE (AP) - U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell wants Washington state to bring back the Basic Health Plan, which provided an inexpensive health insurance option for the working poor.

The new federal program is modeled after a Washington plan that started in 1987 but suspended in 2014 with the start of ...

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Labor Department Far Outpaces Other Agencies On Regulatory Spending

'Pretty much all new regulations cause dead weight in the market'

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Tesla's bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets

biohazard-bubble Tesla today shared details of how effective its particulate filters are. Spoiler alert: They are so good, not only do they clean up the air inside the car, they make the world outside the car cleaner, too. It may not be obvious why this matters: The company is aiming squarely at a very specific type of customer, which may be the company's way into markets like China and India.… Read More

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Sen. Gregg: Democratic Party Is Fractured and Socialist

Sen. Judd Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire, discusses the 2016 presidential election with Bloomberg's David Gura on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)

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Academic Absurdity of the Week: Hobosexuality?

(Steven Hayward) Did you know there is an academic journal called Sexualities? Of course there is. But like the new Playboy, apparently it doesn't print pictures. Instead it prints this: Mapping the Hobosexual: A Queer Materialism Heather Tapley, University of Victoria Abstract The following article introduces the hobosexual as a concept in queer materialism. Mapped at the intersection of not-for-profit hobo sex and labor practices historically, the hobosexual collapses the apparent impasse between the

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Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Sink as ICE Gets Cash Influx

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau has been receiving more taxpayer funds even as it expels a few number of illegal immigrants overall, according to statistics published by the Department of Homeland Security showing that 43 percent fewer aliens have been removed from the U.S. from 2012 to 2015.

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JOHN SEIBLER: Wine laws make criminals of small-business owners

Even the worst of men have their moments. Take Roman Emperor Nero. Mixing wine and honey with mountain snow, he created the first sorbet.

Of course, were Nero to make that sorbet in modern America and then sell it, he could be hauled off to a federal hoosegow. That's because ...

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EPA Methane Rules Would Only Slow Global Warming By 0.0047 Degrees [VIDEO]

Oil and natural gas production of methane is not to blame for the global spike in emissions.

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Tastemates helps you find people who like what you like

pee wee big holiday If you've ever forged a connection with someone because you had the same favorite movie or TV show or book, a new startup called Tastemates has built a social network around that experience. Or as CEO Jon Vlassopulos put it, "We're trying to codify serendipity" — those surprising moments of, "Oh my God, I can't believe anyone else likes that as much as… Read More

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Former Notre Dame Football Coach Holtz Endorses Trump

"Honored to have received the endorsement of Lou Holtz -- a great guy! #INPrimary #Trump2016," Donald Trump writes in a tweet, referring to the former Notre Dame football coach. "The main reason I'm endorsing him -- I've played his golf course, I've stayed in his hotel -- he does nothing but go first class in everything," Holtz says in a video attached to the tweet

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Clinton Hires Aide Linked to 2008 'Shadow Campaign'

A long-time aide to Hillary Clinton who allegedly helped raise money for an illegal pro-Clinton "shadow campaign" in 2008 has been officially hired by the Clinton campaign, the New York Times reported on Monday.

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It's Not Whether You Win Or Lose…

This game has rules, which those who are truly presidential will follow with grace and class.

Via: The Daily Caller

Chegg acquires Imagine Easy Solutions, the company behind EasyBib, BibMe and Citation Machine

chegg egg The online textbook service Chegg today announced that it has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions for $42 million. Imagine Easy is the company behind online bibliography and research tools like EasyBib (which was also its first product) and similar tools like Citation Machine, BibMe and Cite This For Me, most of which it acquired in the last couple of years. Imagine Easy also offers teaching… Read More

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