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This Should Be Our Last Oil Shock "Freedom from oil price shocks shouldn’t come at the cost of a new dependence on China. The path to lasting American energy security must run through abundant domestic energy and the minerals needed to power it." dcjournal.com/this-should-be…

This Should Be Our Last Oil Shock – DC Journal - InsideSources

The last few months of conflict with Iran have exposed an uncomfortable truth: despite becoming the world’s largest oil producer, the United States

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Addressing the Critical Need to Modernize Benefits: The Case for CHOICE Arrangements "Break the reliance on monolithic plan designs. Employers need the freedom to select the strategy that best fits their people and their bottom line." dcjournal.com/addressing-the…

Addressing the Critical Need to Modernize Benefits: The Case for CHOICE Arrangements – DC Journal -...

In September, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and the Small Business Administration (SBA) formally endorsed

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When Tradition Leaves a Bad Taste: Why D.C. Should Support Initiative 8 by Biagio Cepollaro. dcjournal.com/when-tradition…

When Tradition Leaves a Bad Taste: Why D.C. Should Support Initiative 86 – DC Journal - InsideSou...

With fewer than 20 days until the midterm elections, Washington, D.C., voters have an opportunity to weigh in on a ballot initiative that deserves their

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"Founded in 1693, it is the second-oldest college, after Harvard University (1636). It is the setting — indeed, the star — of an astounding adventure novel, 'The Temple Keep,' written by one of its alumni, Michael Holtzman." dcjournal.com/a-novel-advent…

A Novel Adventure Through William & Mary’s Extraordinary Past – DC Journal - InsideSources

The venerable College of William & Mary, located in Williamsburg, Virginia, might want to beef up its admissions office staff because a tidal wave of

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HOLY COW! HISTORY: A 1947 Cereal’s Radioactive Surprise "For a mere 15 cents (about $2.25 today) and a Kix box top, youngsters could send off for a Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring!" dcjournal.com/holy-cow-histo…

HOLY COW! HISTORY: A 1947 Cereal’s Radioactive Surprise – DC Journal - InsideSources

The year 1947 began on a wildly exciting note for kids. That January, enthralling ads popped up in comic books, Sunday newspaper funny pages and on the

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"In almost every part of the American economy, the person paying the bill knows the price and chooses who to pay. Health care is the glaring exception." dcjournal.com/direct-contrac…

Direct Contracting Can Put Health Care Dollars Back to Work – DC Journal - InsideSources

In almost every part of the American economy, the person paying the bill knows the price and chooses who to pay. Health care is the glaring exception. A

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The Taliban’s War on Afghan Girls Rages On "Every student, every lesson, every classroom that persists is a direct challenge to the Taliban’s broader goals of ideological expansion..." dcjournal.com/the-talibans-w…

The Taliban’s War on Afghan Girls Rages On – DC Journal - InsideSources

Five years ago, Taliban leaders told most female students in Afghanistan to stay home. In the Taliban’s tyrannical version of the country, schools were

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Mike O’Rielly@MPORiellyOct 22

Thanks, @InsideSourcesDC, for carrying my new op-ed on sunsetting mandates that perpetuate dying, expensive, and criminally attractive old copper networks. Consumers won't be displaced, as technology alternatives exist, including full 911. Take a read: dcjournal.com/copper-network…

Copper Network Mandates Need to Go – DC Journal - InsideSources

For more than a century, America’s home telephone network literally ran on copper — reliable but limited. As consumers moved beyond voice calls, they

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What China’s Clinical Trial Boom Really Means for U.S. Medicine "Streamline preclinical work, reducing regulatory burden in Phase 1 and 2, and rethinking how many patients and endpoints a trial actually needs." dcjournal.com/what-chinas-cl…

What China’s Clinical Trial Boom Really Means for U.S. Medicine – DC Journal - InsideSources

A recent report from Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., and a House Science Subcommittee hearing last month sounded an alarm: China has

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Point: Political Yard Signs Create Problems; Just Ask a Realtor "Sellers should focus on what they can control. This means focusing on the home and making it as appealing as possible." dcjournal.com/point-politica…

Point: Political Yard Signs Create Problems; Just Ask a Realtor – DC Journal - InsideSources

For an alternate viewpoint, see “Counterpoint: In Praise of Political Yard Signs.” Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, divisions were so high

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Counterpoint: In Praise of Political Yard Signs "So let a thousand 'Vote Blue!' signs bloom! Leave your liberal neighbors seeing 'Red!' And if you hate politics, there’s even one for you: 'Not running for anything. I just wanted a sign.'" dcjournal.com/counterpoint-i…

Counterpoint: In Praise of Political Yard Signs – DC Journal - InsideSources

For an alternate viewpoint, see “Point: Political Yard Signs Create Problems; Just Ask a Realtor.” To some, they are a political pet peeve, a plague of

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Copper Network Mandates Need to Go by @MPORielly "Regulators should not prop up aging infrastructure when better, safer and more resilient options exist." dcjournal.com/copper-network…

Copper Network Mandates Need to Go – DC Journal - InsideSources

For more than a century, America’s home telephone network literally ran on copper — reliable but limited. As consumers moved beyond voice calls, they

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“Standardized and truly readable medication information is a lifeline, not a convenience.” In @InsideSourcesDC, Dr. Teresa Wagner (@Traveling RD) makes the case for the bipartisan Patients’ Right to Know Their Medication Act and standardized #Rx information. dcjournal.com/health-literac…

Health Literacy Extends to the Pharmacy Counter – DC Journal - InsideSources

Nearly half of Americans take at least one prescription drug every month. Yet no national standard for patient medication information is clear and

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Congress Should Kill Washington’s $11.4 Billion Medicare Boondoggle "A lot of America’s seniors being turned into guinea pigs against their will and without their knowledge." dcjournal.com/congress-shoul…

Congress Should Kill Washington’s $11.4 Billion Medicare Boondoggle – DC Journal - InsideSources

For years, an unaccountable federal agency has been quietly tampering with Medicare. Its bureaucratic experiments are costing taxpayers billions more than

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Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs

"Big Tech keeps crying wolf about predatory litigation while the real victims -- the innovators who power America’s economy -- are left unprotected.” See @USIJorg's own Chris Israel's op-ed for @InsideSourcesDC: buff.ly/RsA8p5K

Big Tech’s Victim Narrative Masks a Patent System Stacked Against Inventors – DC Journal - Inside...

For years, Big Tech has tried to cast itself as the victim of an unfair patent system, claiming that startups and smaller competitors (derisively labeled

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"Policies written to address the biggest players often land hardest on the smallest ones. The people who suffer aren’t just community owners. They’re the residents ..." dcjournal.com/built-on-trust…

Built on Trust, Not Transactions – DC Journal - InsideSources

As a second-generation owner of a manufactured housing community, I’ve always thought that treating people fairly isn’t just good business, it's the right

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"Autonomous-vehicle operators should be required to deploy a purpose-built wheelchair-accessible AV by a specified date, with intermediate requirements showing actual progress toward deployment." dcjournal.com/autonomous-veh…

Autonomous Vehicles Need to Make Room for Wheelchairs – DC Journal - InsideSources

I am not opposed to autonomous vehicles. I understand why they appeal to many disabled people, including people who cannot drive themselves or for whom a

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"Medicare should negotiate firmly with manufacturers. It should also demand evidence for its own assumption that earlier price negotiations will still make investments in combination products worthwhile." dcjournal.com/medicares-drug…

Medicare’s Drug Rule Could Penalize Better Treatments – DC Journal - InsideSources

A cancer patient has better things to do than spend hours in an infusion chair. A medicine that safely reduces that burden represents progress, even when

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Democratic Socialism Sounds New; I’ve Heard It Before — in Spanish by @Myrka_Dellanos. "When you ask the government to solve a problem for you, it never stops there. It starts small, it doesn’t feel like much, and it keeps going..." dcjournal.com/democratic-soc…

Democratic Socialism Sounds New; I’ve Heard It Before — in Spanish – DC Journal - InsideSources

When communism took over in Cuba, my mother was a young teacher. One day, government officials came into her classroom and told the children to close

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"Before any National Association of Insurance Commissioners text becomes the law in your state, your elected lawmakers should have to read it, debate it and vote on it in public. That is how the rest of the government works. Insurance rules should too." dcjournal.com/insurance-regu…

Insurance Regulators Accountable to No One – DC Journal - InsideSources

If you own a car or home, you have probably opened a renewal notice lately and winced. Premiums are up almost everywhere. When that happens, most assume

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