Stop Funding WHO Until It Cleans Up Its Act
The World Health Organization wastes many millions of dollars on lavish travel instead of spending it fighting diseases.
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Promote Health by Not Defending the E-Cigarette Ban
E-cigarettes can save thousands of lives, but Obama essentially banned them. Now the government can undo that ban by declining to defend lawsuits against it.
Stupid-Strategy Sweepstakes: Home Depot vs. Lowe’s
Both of the nation’s retail hardware behemoths, Home Depot and Lowe’s, recently sold out to activists in ways that are the corporate equivalent of a dog’s putting his tail between ...
The Christie-and-Kasich Tax Show
There’s an interesting phenomenon playing out in both New Jersey and Ohio: Two of the country’s most prominent conservative Republican governors have proposed new taxes of a sort that haven’t ...
The Happy Meal Ban Flops
San Francisco’s ban on McDonald’s Happy Meals goes into effect today. But because the law bans only giving away toys with certain meals, restaurants are set to comply with the ...
The War on E-Cigarettes
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that from 2005 to 2010, the nation’s smoking rate experienced a measly decline, from 20.9 percent to 19.3 percent. This, ...
Smoking Bans and Evidence
New York City’s ban on smoking in parks, beaches, and pedestrian plazas has been in effect for less than a month, and big-government health activists are crowing. This latest “success” ...
Libertarian Paternalism, Twisted
Cass Sunstein, now the Obama administration’s regulatory czar, argued that the government can help people make better choices in his 2008 book Nudge, co-authored by behavioral economist Richard Thaler.
They called ...
Haitian ‘Social Justice’ Groups Want to Burn Aid
Four months after a devastating earthquake ripped apart their country, the people of Haiti are still suffering, so you’d think a multi-million-dollar donation of vegetable seeds would be welcome news. ...