Taxes & Economy

Top Mann Nemesis: He’s Not a Fraud

  • May 28, 2010

The person who was most instrumental in debunking Penn State scientist Michael Mann‘s hockey stick chart, Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit, said at a climate realists’ conference last week…

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Taxes & Economy

A Low-Carbon Fuel Standard is Bad Policy

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 3, 2010

Days before Pennsylvanians rang in the New Year, Gov. Rendell signed an agreement that paves the way for one of the most radical (and expensive) changes in Pennsylvania’s energy history.

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania Ranks Middle-of-the-Pack in Small Business Climate

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 2, 2009

The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council released their Small Business Survival Index 2009 on Tuesday.  Pennsylvania ranks 27th on the Index (1 being the best state for small businesses). …

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Health Care

Government Health Care Still Kills

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 23, 2009

A couple of PA state legislators have recently cited a recent Harvard study to make the claim that thousands “are dying because of a lack of insurance”…

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Health Care

Canadians Speak Out Against Government-Run Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 16, 2009

Our friends at the Mackinac Center have a series of videos on Canadian health care with regular Canadians discussing the problems with government-run health coverage.  (HT to Carpe…

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Regulation

Keep on Truckin’

  • August 26, 2009

With Harrisburg gridlocked by the state budget impasse and Washington battling over national health care, an issue vital to Pennsylvania lurks below the radar.  The debate is over…

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Regulation

Lack of Subsidy Spooks Movie Director

  • August 26, 2009

The remorse is almost audible in when people talk about the loss of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie Devil to Canada, ostensibly because of the budget impasse. What…

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Health Care

Lots More Reasons why ObamaCare isn’t Popular

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 18, 2009

Pete DeCoursey has an interesting column on Capitowire (subscription) about why people oppose ObamaCare. He hits the main point correct — most people are satisfied with their coverage (…

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Health Care

Why We Must Ration Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 20, 2009

In a New York Times piece, a bioethics professor defends rationing in health care, stating we have to do it.  He uses a number of examples in which the…

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