Why have Americans gotten so fat? Trial lawyers are lining up to sue the makers of snacks and fast foods, but a big part of the reason for the growth in girth is something Americans *aren't* putting in their mouths: cigarettes. As The New York Times noted this week, weight gain and smoking cessation are correlat...(Read more...)
A Christmas Carol Posted by Barbara Branden on 12/23/2004, 12:24pm
Ayn Rand: The ruggedly handsome and weirdly articulate Ebeneezer Scrooge is a successful executive held back by the corrupt morality of a society that hates ... http://www.techcentralstation.com/122304D.html(Read more...)
The past few days a U. S. media controversy has erupted over an environmentalist group's shameless manipulation of elementary school children for propaganda purposes. I am happy to have played a role in exposing this outrage, as I outline in this entry on my blog. The Rainforest Action Network -- a "direct actio...(Read more...)
It's a good bet that Ayn Rand, the self-proclaimed radical for capitalism, would not have approved. The heart of the problem seems to be a slippery treatment of the term "privatization." Rand wrote, "they want to 'preserve' private property -- with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamenta...(Read more...)
Activists claiming to speak for American Christendom complain that Americans who profess allegiance to Christianity constitute a cruelly oppressed minority.The kvetching is especially loud this year, with outrage over a particularly insidious form of anti-Christian bigotry: the Satanic phrase "happy holidays." (Read more...)
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation, To call upon a neighbour and to say:— “We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away.” And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you’ve only to pa...(Read more...)
Criminalizing medical treatment of pain: "Although the evidence they presented in his trial made it clear Hurwitz was not a drug trafficker, they still managed to convict him of drug trafficking.The prosecutors did not dispute that Hurwitz had helped hundreds of patients recover their lives by prescribing the high dose...(Read more...)
From Cato Institute: "Almost anything can be a federal crime. We've gone from a Constitution that mentions only three federal crimes (treason, piracy, and counterfeiting) to a federal criminal code with over 4,000 separate offenses, some of them stunningly trivial. In 2002, President Bush signed legislation making it ...(Read more...)
Great Diva Dies Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 12/19/2004, 11:04pm
Part of today's 'New York Times' tribute to Renata Tebaldi: Beloved Soprano Renata Tebaldi Dies at 82 By ANTHONY TOMMASINI The soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the most beloved opera singers of all time - Arturo Toscanini, hard to please, said she had "the voice of an angel" - died today in the ...(Read more...)
