At 4:00PM eastern earthtime on August 28, American taxpayers’ $2.5 billion investment in interplanetary exploration will be retasked from searching for clues about the possibility of life on Mars to become the most expensive music box ever. Curiosity, the rover ...
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In this clip, National Center general counsel Justin Danhof debates veteran diplomat and author Peter Van Buren on the issue of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and the expectations of our government to be able to keep secrets on the 8/23/12 edition ...
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In a recently-published Daily Caller commentary, I point out that the lead plaintiff in the ACLU/NAACP lawsuit against the Commonwealth’s new voter ID law was able to get herself an ID the day after the law was upheld. I noted ...
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In a piece in today’s Townhall.com, I explain how the administration’s regulatory record doesn’t match its reform rhetoric. The Obama Administration would like to have us believe that his agencies have struck a reasonable approach to using its regulatory powers ...
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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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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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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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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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How Problems Facing Primary Care Physicians Who Accept Medicare Harm Seniors New Paper Proposes Reforms Washington, D.C. - Physicians are fleeing Medicare, and primary care physicians most of all, says a just-released paper by David Hogberg, Ph.D. for the National ...
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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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