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The Slippery Slope, in Action, Before Your Very Eyes

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Regulating food using the methods with which we regulate alcohol could reduce obesity. This is the conclusion of a RAND Corporation essay published in a Centers for Disease Control journal. Philadelphia public radio WHYY’s NewsWorks reports: What if candy stores ...
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Don’t Just Believe The Activist Do-Gooders

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In my op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Examiner, I explained why you shouldn’t take the science claims made by do-good nanny-state activists at face value. I continue with that theme in a piece in today’s Forbes with the Hoover Institution’s Dr ...
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Junk Science About Junk Food

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In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I take on the activists for distorting science to promote their nanny-state agenda. In the fight against obesity, should science matter? It depends on whom you ask. The answer may surprise you, and ...
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Spoiled Food Activists

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a key element of my piece in today’s Washington Examiner. The Foundation funds studies to advance its nanny state agenda. Their studies are often funded in partnership with government agencies (who share that ...
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ACLU Loses Pennsylvania Voter ID Case, But Lead Plaintiff Viviette Applewhite Gets Her Voter ID Anyway (Just By Applying)

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So the ACLU lawsuit wasn't needed after all. A day after Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson's decision to uphold Pennsylvania's voter ID law over a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed it would disenfranchise black, Latino and ...
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How the Media Hates One U.S. Supreme Court Case So Much They Tried to Make it Disappear

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Is the mainstream media allergic to the truth?  source: istockphoto Over the last few months, the National Center has been analyzing and reporting on state-level voter ID laws.  We have done so with objectivity and thoughtful legal analysis.  The same ...
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Nanny State Goes for the Gold

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After bringing home the gold with her incredible gymnastics performance at the London Olympics, Gabby Douglas admitted that she “splurged” and had an Egg McMuffin. It annoyed the heck out of Michelle Obama. Douglas and Obama were appearing together on ...
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Voter ID News That’s Not Fit to Print

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If you’re a journalist who’s completely given up on objectivity, such as Huffington Post correspondent Dan Froomkin, the new voter ID report from News21 is like manna from heaven. Froomkin, who recently wrote that he felt “there is a limit” ...
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Hot Dogs, Lemonade, and Fire Walks

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Winston Churchill didn’t even know about Twitter when he said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on.” Overheated and half-baked reporting about health scares is a case in point. It takes little ...
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Project 21’s Milton, Gibbs on Gabby Douglas Hair Heresy

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To his credit, Don Imus seems to be silent on the issue. Overlooking her tremendous athletic achievement, there are some critics of U.S. Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas who gave her virtually no time to bask in her gold medal glory ...
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