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Journalism, Citizen Politics and the Truth in the Era of Change
9.22.2010 12:00:00 PM
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Senior Editor/Editorial Cartoonist, ... 
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The Future of Traditional Media in the Information Age
9.28.2010 12:00:00 PM

John P. Wilcox
Publisher, The San Francisco Examiner 
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The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
10.25.2010 12:00:00 PM

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President, American Enterprise ... 
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Epic Video: NC Mother Confronts Democrat Senator on ObamaCare
By: John R. Graham
8.23.2010

"This is one of those videos that can be called “epic.” It shows a North Carolina mother confronting Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan about ObamaCare, telling her bluntly, “My children will suffer” because of ObamaCare."

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Epic Video: NC Mother Confronts Democrat Senator on ObamaCare
By: Kelly Gorton
8.23.2010

"This is one of those videos that can be called “epic.” It shows a North Carolina mother confronting Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan about ObamaCare, telling her bluntly, “My children will suffer” because of ObamaCare."

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Appeals bond cap on the table in New Jersey
By: Kelly Gorton
6.22.2010

John O'Brien of Legal NewsLine noted New Jersey's ranking in the U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2010 Report to promote pending legislation in the Garden State.

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The Overton Window
By: Kelly Gorton
6.21.2010

Joseph Overton, former senior vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, developed the Overton Window as a model to explain public policy change.

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Confederacy of Dunces--International Edition
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
5.10.2010

In a clever American Spectator column, Daniel Oliver takes aim at Congress, the European Union, the United Nations, in defense of equal educational opportunity for all.

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Health Insurers Want Obamacare Faster than Obama Does
By: John R. Graham
5.2.2010

While everyone else in the country is trying to figure out how to avoid Obamacare’s avalanche of mandates, taxes, and general red tape, one group is actually accelerating implementation.

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Repeal & Replace: Don't Be the Last on the Bandwagon
By: John R. Graham
4.20.2010

Ramesh Ponnuru advises that the action to repeal Obamacare has to move outside Washington. The good news: It's happening.

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Tommy Thompson and the Saga of Cipro
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
4.16.2010

Tommy Thompson announced yesterday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate against the ineffable Russ Feingold. For all the applause that Thompson receives from our side of the political spectrum, let us not forget his actual performance while HHS Secretary — to pick one example in particular, his machinations in the wake of the anthrax panic on Capitol Hill in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks.

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Let's Face It: Nobody Will Ever Fully Understand This Bill
By: John R. Graham
4.15.2010

As Americans gird themselves for the struggle to repeal Obamacare, it’s interesting to see how the government-media complex is shoring up its defenses. Before passage, the media — large and small — performed sterling stenographic duty, parroting the government’s talking points, deficit reduction and increased coverage, to a resistant public.



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Lunch with Nancy Pelosi; More on the "Slacker Mandate"
By: John R. Graham
4.8.2010

Interesting news to report from my lunch with Nancy Pelosi at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel. A few hundred of her closest friends convened to hear the speaker field a handful of soft-ball questions from the Commonwealth Club's president and CEO.

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