Category: Health

Komen Race = Tea Party?

I almost thought I was going to have to issue a retraction for my Friday blog post on the Komen Global Race for the Cure.  Silly me, it was just the liberal media. As I went through the Saturday edition ...
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Banning Soda Restricts Freedoms for Little Good, Says Jeff Stier on CNN

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National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier was featured on CNN's Headline News Thursday, reacting to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to seek restrictions on the sale of large beverages in the city. Said Jeff, in part: Banning ...
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Left’s New Claim: National Center is Racist for Attending Merck Shareholder Meeting (Yes, Really)

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The other day I did something I don't usually do. I left a comment on a very silly blog post suggesting that the blogger, "Condor," might want to retract his post before we got around to rebutting it, because if ...
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Liberal Who Claimed We’re Racist for Attending Merck Meeting Returns With Sexist Put-Down

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The liberal who looked at Merck and saw a black guy now looks at the National Center and sees... a woman. As Condor said (backstory here), "One of these guys is not like the others... one of these guys, just ...
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National Center’s David Almasi in VOA News Report on Bloomberg Sugary Drink Ban

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National Center executive director David Almasi points out to Voice of America News how New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bullying tactic that proposes to limit sugary beverage sales in the city has many loopholes and is inherently anti-business ...
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Komen’s Flip-Flop Causes the Global Race for the Cure Stumble

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A flip-flop wasn’t a good fit for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. When the very high-profile breast cancer charity decided to sever controversial ties with Planned Parenthood earlier this year, my friend Jennifer was elated.  Because the taint of ...
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Government Health Care Rules Raise Costs, Harm Health, by Elaina F. George, MD

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Before the liberals rammed through ObamaCare, conservatives in Congress proposed health care reform that didn't go through. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) said "The Patients' Choice Act" would "finally enable Americans to own their health care instead of being trapped in ...
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Soda Ban Slammed: Won’t Help Obesity Problem, Restricts Freedom

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"This Gives 'Grasping at Straws' a Whole New Meaning," says National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Stier New York NY/Washington, DC - Mayor Bloomberg is at it again. Yesterday he announced he wants to ban sales of large servings ...
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NYC Beverage Ban Panned by Project 21’s LeBon

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He wanted to tax soda, but state lawmakers wouldn’t follow his advice.  He wanted to ban food stamps from being used to buy soda, but federal regulators wouldn’t agree to it. Now, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying ...
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One Obamacare Debacle You Haven’t Heard About… Until Now

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In a piece for the Washington Examiner, I write about one Obamacare program you won’t hear much about. That’s because many details of the costly plan to convince doctors to use older and cheaper drugs are kept secret. As I ...
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