Obesity is up in nearly all age groups since 2008. Americans in nearly every age group today are more likely to be obese than those same age groups were four years ago. Obesity is up the most among older adults. For example, 14.4% of 84- to 87-year-olds are obese today, up from 12.2% in 2008. Obesity remains most prevalent in middle age. ... MOREGALLUP: Michelle No More Successful Than Barack
Obesity is up in nearly all age groups since 2008. Americans in nearly every age group today are more likely to be obese than those same age groups were four years ago. Obesity is up the most among older adults. For example, 14.4% of 84- to 87-year-olds are obese today, up from 12.2% in 2008. Obesity remains most prevalent in middle age. ... MOREWhy Obama's Libya Actions Should Cost Him The Election
by Andrew Napolitano. The final presidential debate earlier this week was a tailor-made opportunity for Mitt Romney to rip into President Obama's inconsistent, value-free and at times incoherent foreign policy. And it was also an opportunity for the president to explain his administration's material misrepresentations on the murders of our ambassador and others ... MORERadley Balko: Bad Cops, Drug Dogs And Asset Forfeiture
Three ingredients that make for a toxic brew. Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and
his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star
Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they passed through a small town in
Illinois, a police officer, Michael Reichert, pulled Huff's red PT
Cruiser over to the side of the road, allegedly for an unsafe ... MOREJohn Fund: When Political Speech Comes Under Fire
What if the truth is politically incorrect? This month an unnamed private family foundation, apparently concerned with the integrity of elections, paid for 145 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin. The boards featured a picture of a judge’s gavel and a simple message: “Voter Fraud Is a Felony — up to 3½ years and a $10,000 fine.” That’s it. ... MORE
Douglas French: Can Jury Slaves Say What's True?
Getting a taste of our jury system. Until last week, I had managed all of my adult life to avoid jury duty. As a young adult in Topeka, Kan., I was never summoned. For my two decades living in Las Vegas, I was able to call in a couple times declaring economic hardship. Most of the time, I seemed to be off their radar screen. I always suspected it was ... MOREJanice Green: Free Enterprise Is Ultimate Empowerment
The power to prosper. I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a
student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and
jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to
attend to all issues during a campaign season. However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women,
especially young women, announcing their intentions to ... MOREPaul Driessen: EPA Anti-Energy Regulations Killing Jobs
Bogus green schemes harm Americans. More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens
than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected,
unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst
is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, EPA ... MOREJohn Stossel: Greed
Inequality is a product of freedom. On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations." Give me a break. Bill's smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom have done a poor job communicating economics. Blaming problems on "greed" is a mindless cliche. ... MORE The Unintended Consequences Of Minimum Wage
by Luis San Vincente Portes. New Jersey's Democratic leaders are seeking to include on the 2013 ballot a
proposal to increase the minimum wage in the state from $7.25 to $8.25
per hour and to automatically tie it to further increases in the cost of
living. The initiative is founded on states’ ability to set a minimum
wage apart from the federal under the ... MOREBecky Akers: The TSA Gives Us The Finger Again
New ways to monitor the human livestock. The Thieves and Sexual Assailants are playing musical chairs with their porno-scanners. They’re shuffling carcinogenic backscatter X-ray machines out of larger airports, such as New York’s LaGuardia and JFK International, into smaller ones — but that doesn’t mean they’ve renounced their ... MOREWalter E Williams: What You Can't Say
Don't attempt to explain slavery to children. Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative." Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, "The institution of slavery that the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Libya And Lies
No profile in courage here. It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was
"offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to
deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man
not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the
deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the ... MORERon Paul: The Internet Revolution Is A Liberty Revolution
LibertyPen is just one of the cogs. Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, U.S. constitutional history, and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information. They had to spend hours scouring used book stores or the back pages of obscure libertarian periodicals to find the great works of Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and other giants ... MOREMarijuana Legalization Leads In Washington And Colorado
by Jonathan Martin. Washington is emerging as the most likely state to be the first to legalize marijuana according to new polls. But even with a huge fundraising advantage, and less organized opposition, Initiative 502 is far from a lock as voters begin casting ballots. A poll released today by Strategies 360 finds a 54-to-38 lead for I-502, with about 7 percent ... MOREGovernment Displays Contempt For The Will Of The People
"Public servants" will dictate pot policy despite voters. A top Justice Department official has told "60 Minutes" the federal
government is ready to combat any "dangers" of state-sanctioned
recreational pot, amid criticism of the Obama administration for its
relative silence on legalization drives in three states. Voters in Colorado, Washington state and ... MORESteven Milloy: The EPA's Illegal Human Experiments
Agency failed to warn tests potentially lethal. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free. ... MORE
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