Anti-Obesity Efforts Are Fattening Government
by Julie Gunlock. Left unchecked, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030. That was the headline grabbing conclusion of a 400-plus page report released by the Institute of Medicine (IoM) last month, which also found that two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are already overweight or obese. Yet the federal government has ... MORELisa De Pasquale: The EPA Against America
Opposition to the economic interests of Americans. In 1995, the VENONA project revealed that there were pro-Soviet, anti-American saboteurs and spies who infiltrated the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services, and the White House during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. The project revealed that the infiltration into ... MOREJohn Stossel: Improving Health Care
Denial of reality is no longer an option. Any day now, the U.S. Supreme will rule on whether the Obamacare insurance mandate is constitutional. Seems like a no-brainer to me. How can forcing me to engage in commerce be constitutional? But there's a deeper question: Why should government be involved in medicine at all? Right before ... MORE
Jon N. Hall: What 'Every Economist' Says
Except for the ones that disagree. The expression "every economist" is one of the most widely abused in politics. In various formulations, one hears a lot of this rhetoric. You see, there's no disagreement among economists. Keynesians, Austrians, Marxists, classical economists, Rastafarians, you name it...they all say the same thing. Here are ... MOREChristopher Chantrill: A Pre-Revolutionary Situation
Unsettling rumblings among the peasants. Once upon a time, there was a nation that had trouble paying its bills. The people were restless. So the king called for his advisors, and they advised a little inflation to stimulate trade. A few months passed, and the people were still restless. So the king called for his advisors once again and asked ... MOREDomestic Drones And The Need For New Privacy Laws
by Gene Healy. Last week, in its report on the 2013 Defense Authorization bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for allowing drones to operate "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace. "Large numbers of [UAVs] now deployed overseas may be returned to the United States as the conflict in Afghanistan and operations elsewhere wind down in ... MORELaffer & Moore: Obama's Real Spending Record
Stimulating a disaster. President Obama shocked us the other day when he said, "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." Having heard him champion the "multiplier effects" of deficit-financed stimulus spending, we saw him as an enthusiastic supporter of throwing other people's money at just about any ... MOREThomas Sowell: Socialist Or Fascist?
It is not quite accurate to call Obama a socialist. It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist." He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about the economy. But that does not mean that he wants government ownership of the means of production ... MORENew EPA Power Grab To Regulate Private Property
Ditches and gullies in the crosshairs. Lawmakers are working to block an unprecedented power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act (CWA) and control land alongside ditches, gullies and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways. These temporary water sources are often created by ... MORE
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