Trying to profit from bogus GMO fears. In April, the high-class Mexican food chain Chipotle announced that it was going GMO-free. That is, the company would no longer use ingredients derived from modern biotech crops. Chipotle says it sells "food with integrity." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines integrity as "the quality of being ... MORE
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Ronald Bailey: Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots
Trying to profit from bogus GMO fears. In April, the high-class Mexican food chain Chipotle announced that it was going GMO-free. That is, the company would no longer use ingredients derived from modern biotech crops. Chipotle says it sells "food with integrity." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines integrity as "the quality of being ... MOREThe Pope Should Conceal His Economic Ignorance
by Pat Buchanan. Leave the socialist rants to Bernie Sanders. Arriving in La Paz, Pope Francis was presented by Bolivian President Evo Morales with a wooden crucifix carved in the form of a hammer and sickle, the symbol of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Fidel. Had Pope John Paul II been handed that crucifix, he might have cracked it over Evo's head. ... MORERichard Berman: Manufacturing A Food Scare
Marketing to the uninformed. The wisdom of crowds is a concept that has remarkable predictability. Often, the dispersed knowledge of millions of people making informed decisions is more reliable than the informed bias of policy activists. When it comes to the latest food scare, antibiotics and resistant
bacteria, polling shows the public ... MOREWhy Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
by Adam Johnson. Zero for 40 at predicting attacks. On Monday, several mainstream media outlets repeated the latest press release
by the FBI that country was under a new “heightened terror alert” from
“ISIL-inspired attacks” “leading up to the July 4th weekend.” One of the
more sensational outlets, CNN, led with the breathless warning on ... MOREDon't Be Terrorized By Your Government This 4th Of July
by Ronald Bailey. Stay calm, carry on, and above all, defend the Constitution. As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, officials in the FBI
and the Department of Homeland Security are warning us that there's a heightened threat of Islamist terrorist attacks. CNN is reporting
that law enforcement officials believe that the Islamist ... MOREPope Reveals God Cannot Stop Climate Change By Himself
by Gregg Zoroya. Holy man declares moral imperative to reduce greenhouse gases. Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter, ... MOREThere’s No Evidence Of A ‘New Nationwide Crime Wave’
by Radley Balko. Last week in the Wall Street Journal,
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute posited that we are in
the throes of a “new nationwide crime wave.” She blamed the chorus of
police reform advocates and critics of police brutality since the
Ferguson protest last summer. She claimed the criticism and efforts to
hold police ... MOREJohn Stossel: Green Lies
Propaganda piece "Blackfish" is full of lies. Millions go to SeaWorld to learn more about sea life and get closer to killer whales. But fewer go now because the documentary "Blackfish" exposed what one reporter called "the darker side" of SeaWorld. The movie, which CNN bought and ran over and over, tells how greedy businessmen take ... MOREEmergency Room Visits Continue to Rise Under Obamacare
by Peter Suderman. Another Obamacare promise bites the dust. In September, 2009, President Obama gave a prime time speech to the
joint Congress making the case for the health care law that would come
to be known as Obamacare. Much of the speech was devoted to explaining
and justifying the law’s major components. Subsidies, he argued, ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Meet The Vagina Voters
Voting for Hillary because she's a woman. "I intend to vote with my vagina." Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine, written by a person with a vagina who intends to vote for Clinton because she also has a vagina. Let's leave aside the unfortunate image conjured up by ... MORENSA Spreads Its Message By Producing Coloring Books
Conditioning kids to the police state. By the time I found the National Security Agency booth on the expo
floor at last week’s RSA Conference, all the best shwag was gone. The
most prized giveaway was a faux-leather Post-it Note kit bearing the
agency’s seal. “We can’t print enough of those,” the agency rep manning the booth
told me. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Global Warming
A most anti-science idea. "But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact," said President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. Saying the debate is settled is nonsense, but the president is right about climate change. GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate change: "Changes in average weather conditions that persist over ... MOREGoogle Works To Rank Sites Based On ‘Truthfulness’
by Maxim Lott. In a step that critics worry will inject political bias into search results, a Google research team released a report this month on ranking search results based on how factual websites are. They propose eventually using that to change Google rankings, which are currently based on website popularity. The Google researchers give, as an ... MOREWalter E. Williams: College Campus Update
Bryn Mawr will be better in sports. President Barack Obama wants Americans to dig deeper into our pockets to expand college education. Let's update college indoctrination done in the name of education. Cornell assistant professor Russell Rickford, in a lecture titled "Ferguson: The Next Steps," told a packed auditorium: "Let's be very clear about what's ... MORE
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