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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Mike Koriwchak: CMS’s Arbitrary Doctor Rating System
by Michael Hamilton June 16, 2016In today’s Health Care News podcast, returning guest Dr. Mike Koriwchak, vice president of Docs4PatientCare Foundation and co-host of The Doctor’s Lounge Radio Show, urged listeners to take advantage of the comment period, open through June 27, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET, for a new rule proposed for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Government Spontaneously, Dramatically Changing the Rules is Terrible for Business
by Seton Motley May 12, 2016Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Certainty” as: “The quality or state of being certain especially on the basis of evidence.” As we know, evidence abounds that the world is inherently a very un-certain place.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
States Should Not Increase Tobacco Use Age to 21
by Lindsey Stroud May 2, 2016Some states, including California and Illinois, are now considering proposals that would increase the legal age limit required to consume tobacco and tobacco-like products, including electronic cigarettes, from 18 years old to 21. Hawaii was the first state to enact such laws, which became effective January 1, 2016.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
Keep an Eye on this Key Takings Case at SCOTUS, Murr v. Wisconsin
by David S. D'Amato April 20, 2016A government taking occurs when the regulatory strictures placed on a piece of property so limit its use that it is stripped of economic viability. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City is the leading case in the Supreme Court’s regulatory takings jurisprudence.
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According to Mark Twain, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Now six state attorney generals (AG) have banded together to do something about it by initiating governmental legal prosecution. Can a modern “Reign of Terror” be far behind?
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Featured
Judge Scalia’s Untimely Death Prompts Judicial Havoc and Uncertainty
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold February 26, 2016The passing of Justice Scalia on Saturday, February 13, while a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch luxury resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa, is a tragedy for the entire nation.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
David Bowie Understood the Vital Import of Intellectual Property
by Seton Motley January 12, 2016David Bowie passed away on Sunday. To say he was an innovative guy – would be the largest of understatements. He created, imbued and embodied multiple music personas – reinventing himself over and over again. He parlayed his multiplicative rock music success into fashion icon status – and numerous Hollywood and Broadway gigs.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Court Preview: Activists Expose Net Neutrality’s Biggest Legal Problems
by Scott Cleland December 3, 2015Do not let the FCC’s likely unlawful means of broadband Internet regulation, i.e. Title II, distract you from the additional likelihood that two primary ends of supposed net neutrality “policy canon” i.e. bans against “paid prioritization” and “two-sided markets” (only users should pay), are also likely unlawful, even under Title II, sans new legislation.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Alex Salter: The Legal Policy of Space Junk
by Jesse Hathaway October 6, 2015In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway takes a leap into the Final Frontier, talking with Texas Tech University economics professor Alex Salter about how current international legal policy and basic economics are causing a potentially deadly problem in the skies: space junk.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Congress Should Impeach EPA Head Gina McCarthy – And Then a Whole Bunch of Other Bureaucrats
by Seton Motley October 1, 2015The national Republican Party is currently in the midst of a slow-motion train wreck. Their presidential primary has amply demonstrated their Base’s profound disaffection. You can call it anger, you can call it delusion – you can call it a tuna fish sandwich. But when 70+% of your voters don’t like anyone having anything to do with anything you’ve been doing – you absolutely call it a problem.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC Built its Net Neutrality House on Legal Sand
by Scott Cleland September 17, 2015The FCC’s latest legal brief defending its Open Internet Order, will represent the FCC’s “strongest possible” legal arguments for its Title II net neutrality case – a vainglorious legal fortress.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
EPA Says It Will Enforce Clean Water Rules Despite Court Order
by Emily Zanotti August 31, 2015Last week, a federal court blocked the EPA from enforcing its new “wetland rules,” as 13 plaintiff states claimed it was overly broad. Today, the EPA announced that it will go forward with enforcing the rule anyway.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Rather Than Make a Bad Bill Look More Like a Good Bill – Just Pass the Good Bill
by Seton Motley May 28, 2015Some in government are yet again using a tiny private sector problem to allegedly justify a massive government private sector invasion. Proposed is a huge government hammer. To obliterate – a gnat.