Author: Jeff Stier

Daily Caller: CDC Funding Left Wing Activists

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If one of the goals of the Centers for Disease Control’s Community Transformation Grants is to lower your blood pressure, it won’t work; not unless you are a radical liberal. I’ve been discussing the issue on talk radio across the ...
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Even Bad Tax Policy Should Have Sanity

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As I wrote for Townhall.com today, I do not believe the government should use taxes as a way of changing behavior. But until we convince the politicians to stop using the tax code to try and tinker with our choices, ...
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Digging Up Another Case of Wasteful Spending: USDA’s School Lunch Gardens

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With all the talk of the need to reign in wasteful government spending, you’d think agencies would be cutting back on programs not central to their mission. You’d be wrong. In a piece for Forbes, “Waste And Bad Judgment Sprout At ...
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Let’s Move. Further?

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In an op-ed appearing in various McClatchy-Tribune newspapers this week, I wrote that the first lady’s  “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign could have been a lot worse.  I wrote, In the year since Michelle Obama launched her campaign against obesity, she’s ...
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First it was the Food Police. Now it is the Medicine Police

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On Townhall.com, I explain how the “medicine police” are wrong in trying to persuade the Food and Drug Administration to remove an approved weight-loss drug from the market. When it comes to regulating pharmaceuticals, it is important to remember that ...
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Taking Away Choices Doesn’t Help Us Make “Better” Choices

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In Boston, they’ve banned soda sales in municipal buildings. Chocolate milk is a no-no in some Washington, DC schools. And parents aren’t allowed to send their kids to school with lunches in some Chicago schools. The Nanny-staters say they are ...
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ObamaCare’s Big Bucks

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Today on The Hill’s “Congress Blog,” I expose how the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) is using billions of dollars from Obamacare to push extreme and unscientific health policies at the state and local level. When then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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Florida Anti-Tobacco Group’s Game Of Smoke and Mirrors

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I don’t want kids to smoke cigarettes.  So I think it is a good thing that there are groups out there educating the public about the dangers of smoking and why kids should not start using tobacco products of any ...
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Conservative Cancer Cups?

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According to The Hill, Democrats think Republicans want members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to  drink from dangerous cups. Really. Nine Democrats, in a letter to Speaker John Boehner, wrote that they are worried about the danger caused by ...
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NYC PCB Scare: New York Post Op-ed

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Are New York City schools killing kids?  Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and plaintiffs’ lawyers sure seem to think so.  But they have the science all wrong. As I write in today’s New York Post: They’re using junk-science alarmism to pressure ...
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