Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
As we approach a busy holiday travel season, as cold weather grips much of the nation and as flu season gets into high gear, HHS is failing to make clear their intentions about when they’ll green-light the manufacture of a vaccine for the particularly deadly H7N9 strain of avian flu from China.
Featured · Regulation · Taxes
[Mayor] Bloomberg stands accused of not letting the public see how his team made various nanny-state laws and regulations from his (failed) soda ban to his rules against donating food to city-run homeless shelters.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico’s legislators may well prove that they haven’t learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City.
Featured · Liberty · Regulation
When it comes to food safety, the European Union and the United States have some of the most effective scientific and regulatory programs in the world. So it came as[...]
The Health Ministry should be applauded for enlisting the advice of a technical committee to study the scientific evidence relating to the regulation of e-cigarettes.
The argument that paper is always better for the environment just doesn’t hold water.
Education · Featured · Health Care · Regulation
Nanny-state activism will not be as effective as market-based reforms.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
“If the mayor applied his risk-averse trans-fat banning, soda-size limiting science to the risks of composting in NYC he wouldn’t be making it mandatory, he’d be banning it.”
Lost in the uproar is the most important fact: This wheat, like all genetically modified crops, is absolutely harmless.
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