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Urgent: Chaffetz

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Rep. Chaffetz to do his job and investigate Kellyanne Conway's ethics violation.

Urgent: methane

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Congress to continue the methane leak limits.

Muscular distrophy

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

A drug company will henceforth charge Americans $89000 for an old drug for treating muscular distrophy, available in most countries for under a dollar.

The company says that insurance will pay for most of it. Perhaps so, if you have insurance (tens of millions of Americans still don't). Even so, your deductible and your co-pay might bankrupt you.

This is the consequence of a bad artificial monopoly law that ought to be repealed. In addition, the US should have a National Health Service to drive the price down for everyone.

Speech police

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

Many US universities have "bias response teams" which are effectively the speech police.

I might despise some of the bias that these teams try to stop; in other cases, I might agree with it, because their scope is wide. However, students have a right to state their views regardless of what I think of them.

Informers

jeudi 16 février 2017 à 01:00

Four US Muslim schools and community organizations have rejected federal grants conditioned on turning into informers on the people they serve.

They feel it would corrupt them.