The EPA's Protection Racket
The Environmental Protection Agency is making “significant strides” on issues such as “protecting children’s health” and “confronting climate change,” says a memo from EPA administrator Lisa P....
View ArticleHaitian 'Social Justice' Groups Want to Burn Aid
Four months after a devastating earthquake ripped apart their country, the people of Haiti are still suffering, so you’d think a multi-million-dollar donation of vegetable seeds would be welcome news....
View ArticleLibertarian Paternalism, Twisted
Cass Sunstein, now the Obama administration’s regulatory czar, argued that the government can help people make better choices in his 2008 book Nudge, co-authored by behavioral economist Richard Thaler....
View ArticleSmoking Bans and Evidence
New York City’s ban on smoking in parks, beaches, and pedestrian plazas has been in effect for less than a month, and big-government health activists are crowing. This latest “success” comes from a...
View ArticleThe War on E-Cigarettes
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that from 2005 to 2010, the nation’s smoking rate experienced a measly decline, from 20.9 percent to 19.3 percent. This, despite...
View ArticleThe Happy Meal Ban Flops
San Francisco’s ban on McDonald’s Happy Meals goes into effect today. But because the law bans only giving away toys with certain meals, restaurants are set to comply with the law by selling the...
View ArticleThe Christie-and-Kasich Tax Show
There’s an interesting phenomenon playing out in both New Jersey and Ohio: Two of the country’s most prominent conservative Republican governors have proposed new taxes of a sort that haven’t appealed...
View ArticleThe Christie-and-Kasich Tax Show
There’s an interesting phenomenon playing out in both New Jersey and Ohio: Two of the country’s most prominent conservative Republican governors have proposed new taxes of a sort that haven’t appealed...
View ArticleNo, the Culinary Is Not Political
Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio probably doesn’t cook much these days. Having built his reputation preparing expensive entrées for his well-heeled customers at Craft Restaurants, Colicchio is now cooking...
View ArticleGMO: Gimmicky Marketing Obfuscations
From grocery stores to Mexican restaurants to coffee shops, do-gooder retailers are serving up a side of liberal politics with every purchase. Earlier this year, Starbucks had to ditch its “Race...
View ArticleStupid-Strategy Sweepstakes: Home Depot vs. Lowe’s
Both of the nation’s retail hardware behemoths, Home Depot and Lowe’s, recently sold out to activists in ways that are the corporate equivalent of a dog’s putting his tail between his legs and slinking...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s ‘Healthy’ School Lunches
Chicago Public Schools are back in session this week, facing an uncertain future, with massive debt, junk-bond status, and disgruntled staff. But one thing is certain: All of the district’s 400,000...
View ArticleSo Fat and Salt Aren’t So Bad for Us: Why We No Longer Trust the Government’s...
Over the past 30 years, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have become as bloated as the nation’s collective waistline, serving up a thick brew of revolving-door nutrition advice, confusing messages,...
View ArticleYour Burger Is Killing the Planet, Say the Climatarians
Move over, vegetarian; the “climatarian” is now taking the smug seat at the dinner table.This new term is a convergence of two political crusades: climate change and the food movement. It landed on the...
View ArticleDown with Dissenters! Elite Food Activists Disinvite a Meat Advocate from a...
Nina Teicholz is challenging 60 years of dietary dogma. And some people are trying to stop her.Teicholz is an investigative journalist and author of the best-selling book The Big Fat Surprise: Why...
View ArticleCongress Must Do More to Combat Unaccountable Bureaucrats’ Funding of Junk...
When Congress meddles in how federal agencies set research priorities and disburse grants, the scientific community is, understandably, distraught. But Congress is responsible for rooting out waste,...
View ArticleThe EPA Shows Again That It’s an Affront to Common Sense
For decades, in administrations Democratic and Republican alike, the Environmental Protection Agency has been a paragon of waste, fraud, and abuse, a corrupt taxpayer-funded Evil Empire. “Science”...
View ArticleCongress Can Make Regulators Accountable
‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra famously (and apocryphally) said — but we’re going to hazard one anyway. Because the need for less-intrusive and...
View ArticleWho’s Getting Money from NIH?
As Democrats and the scientific establishment howl over President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Congress is investigating whether that agency misspent U.S....
View ArticlePromote Health by Not Defending the E-Cigarette Ban
Harm reduction -- opting for a product or activity that is not harmless but is better than the existing alternative -- is a common and obvious strategy that we employ almost unthinkingly. For example,...
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