Category: Health

Utah’s Abortion Waiting Period Lauded by Project 21’s Stacy Washington

Earlier this week, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed into law legislation requiring a 72-hour waiting period before an abortion is performed. A Herbert spokesman said the waiting period, which begins after a face-to-face meeting with an abortion clinic worker where ...
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FDA Science Panel: Dissolvable Tobacco Could Reduce Disease

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Kudos to a key Food and Drug Administration science panel for recognizing that tobacco users who switch from cigarette smoking to dissolvable products could reduce their health risks. As reported by the Associated Press, A Food and Drug Administration scientific ...
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The Cigarette Smokescreen

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In a piece for the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I argue that The Food and Drug Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco. Tobacco is different from ...
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What’s Wrong with New York Politicians?

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Washington, D.C. - Two new releases by the National Center for Public Policy Research raise the question, "What's wrong with New York politicians?" On Tuesday, the National Center released a new mini-documentary by filmmaker and National Center Media Fellow Steven ...
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NYC Bans Food Donations to Homeless: No Kugel for you!

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I break a story that will justifiably cause much outrage. I write, So much for serving the homeless. The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking ...
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Nanny State Run Amuck: Bloomberg Bans Food Donations in New York City

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Food Might Be Salty or Too High in Calories, City Explains Washington, D.C. - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is now banning all food being offered to the city's homeless shelters. New York City's bureaucrats have become so singularly ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 19: Saving Private Medicine

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Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the landmark challenge to President Obama’s attempt to make health care a government program. Today, members of “Occupy Occupy D.C.” voiced their opposition. In support of the work of the National ...
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Scapegoat Selected in Nugget-Gate

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Apparently the only one to blame in Nugget-Gate is a lone preschool teacher.  Ha. You may remember that two weeks ago we used our Occupy Occupy D.C. permit to host a “Lunch-In,” where we ate turkey sandwiches in solidarity with ...
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Senate Amendment to Protect Faith-Based Institutions from Intrusive ObamaCare Regulations “Protects Everyone,” Legal Expert Says

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Washington, D.C. - Calling it a valuable safeguard of religious freedom in America, National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper says an amendment up for a vote in the Senate Thursday is necessary to protect the First ...
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Gerri Willis Supports Occupy Occupy D.C. Lunch-In on Fox Business Network

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On the 2/23/12 edition of “The Willis Report,” host Gerri Willis brings a turkey-and-cheese sandwich and chips on her show in solidarity with National Center “Occupy Occupy D.C.” activists.  The activists gathered at Freedom Plaza earlier that day to protest ...
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