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AJC: Increase health care costs; cut Medicare in half; undermine consumer choices and quality of care; and destroy federalism as we know it. These are all the effects that panelists at a recent Heritage Foundation meeting argue the current health care bills will produce if they pass.

AJC: “We are now losing in Afghanistan. It is not a slow win. It is not a stalemate,” proclaimed Frederick Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) November 4^th lecture on the “Afghanistan Strategy: The Way Forward.”

Do political leaders who alienate other nations increase the probability of a terrorist attack against their homeland? Recent research conducted by then- Princeton University professor Alan Krueger and Czech professor Jitka Malečková suggests that it does.

AJC: Twenty years ago the Berlin wall that divided Germany from freedom and communism came down. At a recent event at the Heritage Foundation, panelists reviewed the “pulse” of Europe twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

AJC: “Can the United States Affect Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions?” was the topic of the Cato Institute’s November 3rd forum.

Lord Christopher Monckton is known for many things. He was a science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and in recent years he developed the famous Eternity puzzle.  But most currently, Lord Monckton has been making waves with his many arguments against alleged global warming.

The author of a new study on marijuana use could have used an economics lecture from the late Christopher T. Warden, a journalism professor at Troy University.

William Rehnquist was by all accounts a fascinating man. His work in the judiciary was unparalleled: he served on the Supreme Court as a justice for over three decades, and led the court as Chief Justice for nineteen years.

Some cognitivists out there claim that the “God Concept” comes naturally to children.  In their worldview, children come up with the concept of God to explain away things that just don’t make sense to their underdeveloped minds.

Do America’s sugar policies harm consumers?

“Children benefit when fathers are involved in family life; religion encourages men to be more involved in family life,” Dr. Richard Petts said at a recent Heritage Foundation conference.

If the Obama administration were to believe John Mueller’s book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda, they could abandon diplomatic engagement with Iran completely and rest easy.