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Debating Crime in America

Urban Institute Senior Fellow John Ronan says crime in America has decreased significantly since exploding in the ’70s and ’80s. “Crime declined in the ’90s, sort of stayed the same in the last decade, and in the last six or seven years it’s declined again, and that story is just not getting told,” Ronan tells investigative reporter John Stossel. On the other side of the coin, Fox News Health.com managing editor Dr. Manny Alvarez chimes in that crime and drug use are on the rise. So what gives? Listen to the lively debate in this edition of Liberty Pen.

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Death Panels Are Baaaack

Fox News medical consultant Dr. Manny Alvarez says the Sarah Palin-coined “death panels” of Obamacare are back disguised as “mortality tests,”  the result of a government study looking at the health risk factors of longevity. The bottom line, according to Alvarez, is the new death panels will allow doctors to determine whether it is cost effective to treat the elderly. “The ethical fact that they’re even proposing this is mind-blowing to me,” Alvarez says. “The fact remains that now, everything’s about dollars and cents.”

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