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Planned Parenthood Research Director: Delivery of Fully Intact Fetal Cadavers at 20 Weeks

HOUSTON, Aug. 4–The fifth undercover video in the controversy over Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts shows the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, advertising the Texas Planned Parenthood branch’s track record of fetal tissue sales, including its ability to deliver fully intact fetuses. In the video, actors posing as […]

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Martha Stewart crusades for horses. Will she crusade for kids in New York’s crummy schools?

The New York Daily News reported  that “Martha Stewart sent a letter to Bill de Blasio asking that his administration seek answers in the mystery ailment of Tickles, a carriage horse who had to be euthanized.” What really happened to that horse? Martha Stewart wanted answers! The “home-improvement maven” sent her demands directly to the mayor and […]

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Obama’s Illegal Aliens: Importing Deadly Third World Diseases

Reconstructed Spanish Flu[/caption]   How the Left’s expanding of its base through illegal immigration is hazardous to Americans’ health.   Matthew Vadum | Front Page Magazine Even as exotic new diseases and nearly-eradicated old ones keep popping up across the nation, the Obama administration is unconcerned, or some would say, recklessly indifferent, to the public […]

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Students Forced to “Sit and Stare”

At Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, not one junior took Common Core Smarter Balanced (SBAC) standardized tests this spring. At four other Seattle high schools, district officials said about 95% of juniors refused to take the tests. Seattle-area juniors boycotted tests because they aren’t needed in order to graduate from high school and […]

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Net Neutrality Versus Your Health

(A version of this Health Alert, which is co-authored by Roslyn Layton, was published by iHealthBeat. Roslyn Layton is a PhD fellow at Aalborg University’s Center for Communication, Media & Information Studies and vice president of Strand Consult.) The Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to regulate the Internet with the same law that was created for […]

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Common Core and Progressive Domination of Math Instruction Equals Mathematic Illiteracy

A century of progressive domination of the American educational system has resulted in a growing number of Americans remaining mathematically illiterate. The Common Core standards are a repeat of previously failed federal policies which fail to develop academic skill making the study of mathematics needlessly boring and challenging for too many talented students. These federally […]

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Why Don’t You Own Your Own Health Data?

David Brailer, MD, was the first head of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC), appointed by President George W. Bush. Today, he is a venture capitalist. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Dr. Brailer notes that a law passed in 1996 governs our access to health information. Clearly, it needs updating: […]

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Education: If You Can’t Read This, Thank A Public School

Private school kids can read. Classical academy kids can read. Montessori school kids can read. Homeschooled kids can read. Spot the pattern? It’s only kids in public schools who can’t read. Why is that? You would think our education professors would figure out what the schools are doing wrong. In fact, they have not figured out very […]

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Paying for the Medicare Doc Fix is Easy

Late last month, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives approved the Medicare Reauthorization and CHIP Extension Act (MACRA), a fiscally irresponsible approach to increasing the amount the federal government spends on Medicare’s physicians’ services. Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule is tied to an inflation formula that is inadequate to pay physicians enough to […]

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Common Core in America: Courtesy of Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia

Parents Must, and Can Reject Common Core in their state, Reject Islamic Infiltration of American Education by Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia “Where did Common Core come from?” is a question I often hear from parents in every state I’ve visited as I travel the country speaking about the Islamic infiltration of America. Because in […]

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Senate Dems: Get Pregnant, Then Get Health Insurance

While everyone else is wondering whether the Supreme Court will replace Obamacare in 37 states with the actual Affordable Care Act as written, some Democratic U.S. Senators are urging women to dive deeper into Obamacare’s perverse incentives by encouraging them to delay getting health insurance until after they become pregnant. As reported by Lydia Wheeler […]

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Immuno-Oncology Promises Continued Wealth and Health: LifeTech Capital’s Stephen Dunn

Staff of The Life Sciences Report Immuno-oncology—disabling cancer’s defenses so that a patient’s own immune system can seek it out and destroy it—took center stage in the drug development world in 2014. Stephen Dunn of LifeTech Capital believes that preeminence will continue in 2015, bolstered by new drug approvals, new targets and new combination immunotherapies […]