Category: Health

Politics and Pawns, by Hughey Newsome

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A pawn, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is "one that can be used to further the purposes of another." It implies the desires of the used are not being addressed, or are at least secondary to the desires of ...
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Derryck Green of Project 21 Laments the Effects of 40 Years of Abortion on Black America

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It was four decades ago that the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its infamous finding of a right to abortion in our nation’s Constitution.  Later this week, pro-life activists hope to amass crowd’s rivaling yesterday’s presidential inauguration for the March for ...
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What Can Be Learned From Senator Ted Cruz

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Whether you agree that the shutdown was a good strategy or not, it is important to understand how one of the shutdown’s champions, Senator Ted Cruz, managed to animate enough of the Republican base to force such a battle.  To ...
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Big Bureaucrazy Versus Freedom To Farm, by Teresa Platt

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In Virginia, home to the Pitchfork Rebellion, citizens have introduced the “Freedom to Farm Without Fear” bill.  It is hoped that this legislation will make life better - a bit more free - for the state’s agricultural producers. Do you ...
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Secretive Food Police

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I explain how the Bloomberg administration is flouting New York State’s open-government law as it legislates and regulates away our freedom to decide what to eat. Keep Food Legal, a consumer group ...
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Obesity Police: Coke is the new AR-15

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In an op-ed in Forbes, I describe the latest inflammatory language from the obesity cops. When it comes to obesity, the most prominent public health activists are intent at making it into a war, rather than a solvable problem. The ...
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LeBon Commentary on ObamaCare Intrusiveness Featured in Beck’s Blaze

A new commentary by Project 21 co-chair Cherylyn Harley LeBon, published on the Glenn Beck web site The Blaze draws from her own personal experience to show how the new personal information-gathering regime required by ObamaCare is intrusive and will ...
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How Far Left is the Far Left?

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In an op-ed in Forbes today, I did something uncharacteristic: I said nice things about the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign. Praising Ms. Obama from the right doesn’t come easy. Certainly, there are examples where she’s stumbled. But by and large, ...
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Obama Administration Ignores Crimes Documented in New York Times

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In an op-ed in Forbes.com today, Dr. Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution and I ask why the Obama Administration ignored a case of high profile vigilantism. The short answer: The criminal activity was done by the left. The longer ...
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In a Government Health Care System, Your Medical Records are Kept Safe — From You

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Nothing illustrates the attitude of big government, and big government health care, like this story uncovered by the Scotsman about an IT scandal within Britain's government-run health care system, the National Health Service (NHS). It seems "unethical" NHS employees have ...
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