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Fat Is The New Smoking: Chicago Considers Sin Tax On Soda
For years those of us who opposed prohibitionist anti-tobacco policies such as smoking bans and sin taxes warned that once the nanny statists were done with tobacco they’d move on to other things. And...
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New York Planning To Ban Soda Sizes Above A Medium
You see, New Yorkers aren’t fat because they have unhealthy lifestyles. New Yorkers are fat because they’re allowed to make certain choices when it comes to their food and beverages. So, obviously, the...
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Group Wants Government To Micromanage Soda Recipes
There’s no aspect of our day-to-day lives too trivial to escape the micromanagement of nanny statists. Maybe we should just have the government start restaurants, and we can all vote on what sort of...
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Civil Disobedience: Starbucks Will Defy New York’s New Regulation Of Drink Sizes
Today is the last day you can buy large-sized sugary drinks in New York City thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban, but coffee house giant Starbucks has announced that they’ll be defying the law. Or,...
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Man Gets Visit From Cops, Social Services After Posting Picture Of His Son...
When I was six years old my father, a war veteran and at the time an Alaska State Trooper, introduced me to my first gun. It was single-shot, bolt-action Winchester .22 and I used it to plink soda cans...
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The Grand Forks Parks District Wants To Stop You From Being Unhealthy In Public
When the nanny statists behind the anti-smoking crusade were making their arguments, “second hand smoke” was the crux of their argument. Because smoking could potentially impact the health around you,...
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Guest Post: Paging Ron Swanson To Grand Forks
Amid the mountain of criticism for the three recent pro-life bills signed by the Governor, turns out progressive-leaning people don’t really believe in choice at all. Sure, they argue for the “choice”...
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Maybe The Government Doesn’t Always Know What’s Best
Based on what we were told was sound science, the government has been on an aggressive anti-salt campaign. In everything food-labeling regulations to actual restrictions on salt use by restaurants and...
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If We’re Going To Respect Gay Rights, Can We Start Respecting All Rights?
This tweet sent out by the office of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ironic given Mayor Bloomberg’s hositilty to the right of the people to buy large sodas and own guns: In the history of the...
View ArticleHow sweet it is! WI cranberries off USDA naughty list
By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — Is the Obama administration’s fatwa on fat going too far? A bipartisan group of Wisconsin politicos, from members of the Badger State congressional...
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“Your freedom is likely to be someone else’s harm”
The problem with collectivizing something like health care – which is to say turning health care into a “right” that we’re all obligated to provide for one another – is that when we do so we put our...
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Obama Administration Issues 160 Page Edict On School Snacks
Having solved all the really big problems in the federal government, the Obama administration has now turned to micromanaging the snacks available for purchase in public schools across the nation. The...
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Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Government Solutions For Obesity
Obesity is a crisis, we’re told, and it demands government regulation to fix. But as policies micromanaging our lifestyles are pushed across the nation, most Americans say that while they know they’re...
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“Your freedom is likely to be someone else’s harm”
The problem with collectivizing something like health care – which is to say turning health care into a “right” that we’re all obligated to provide for one another – is that when we do so we put our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama Administration Issues 160 Page Edict On School Snacks
Having solved all the really big problems in the federal government, the Obama administration has now turned to micromanaging the snacks available for purchase in public schools across the nation. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Group Wants Government To Micromanage Soda Recipes
There’s no aspect of our day-to-day lives too trivial to escape the micromanagement of nanny statists. Maybe we should just have the government start restaurants, and we can all vote on what sort of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Civil Disobedience: Starbucks Will Defy New York’s New Regulation Of Drink Sizes
Today is the last day you can buy large-sized sugary drinks in New York City thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban, but coffee house giant Starbucks has announced that they’ll be defying the law. Or,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Man Gets Visit From Cops, Social Services After Posting Picture Of His Son...
When I was six years old my father, a war veteran and at the time an Alaska State Trooper, introduced me to my first gun. It was single-shot, bolt-action Winchester .22 and I used it to plink soda cans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Grand Forks Parks District Wants To Stop You From Being Unhealthy In Public
When the nanny statists behind the anti-smoking crusade were making their arguments, “second hand smoke” was the crux of their argument. Because smoking could potentially impact the health around you,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Post: Paging Ron Swanson To Grand Forks
Amid the mountain of criticism for the three recent pro-life bills signed by the Governor, turns out progressive-leaning people don’t really believe in choice at all. Sure, they argue for the “choice”...
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