Examiner Editorial: Obama bases policies on science – when it suits him

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Three years ago, President Obama promised that “in this new Administration, we base our public policies on the soundest science.” This conceit was politically useful because it played upon the Left’s stereotype of born-again Republicans. But it is an unjustified conceit for a president who has often set science aside in the rush to expand government.

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