The European horse meat scandal – and America’s complicated legal policy As the controversy over unlabeled horse meat reaching grocery stores and restaurants in Europe widens, let’s explore how the scandal has unfolded and why it’s so hard to find horse on a menu in the United States. Jan. 16 – Ireland’s Food Safety Authority […]Continue Reading
The other day a group of us were at a restaurant. All of a sudden there was a child stomping his feet and stating he was not going to do what he was told. He made a big scene even after he was told that these are the rules and you have to follow them. […]Continue Reading
John Ransom: Mikey wrote: I wrote earlier about Ransom’s hypocrisy and have not yet had a good response. When he first wrote this recycled piece (April 2012) I asked him why he did not also condemn the person who stole the emails from the East Anglia. As the NYT link shows, there was condemnation of […]Continue Reading
First, on a personal note: Thank you, thank you and thank you, Mary Elizabeth Williams! What a glorious service you’ve done the pro-life cause. I know, that’s not what you intended. But that’s precisely what you’ve accomplished. Did I say thank you? In her jaw-dropping article, “So what if abortion ends life?” Williams – a […]Continue Reading
Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the law’s opponents. They didn’t have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a generation, with immense consequences for […]Continue Reading
By: George Will WASHINGTON — Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama — with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected president when inaugurated since the Second World War — has a contradictory […]Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The goal is quality coverage for millions of uninsured people in the United States. What the reality […]Continue Reading
James Arlandson If you’re a believer who takes the Bible seriously, you have asked yourself this question many times. I have. It has baffled me. Maybe a quick look at the Bible — specifically, the Torah — can clarify matters. Let me say right off — America does not replace ancient Israel. And we certainly […]Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die prematurely from their unhealthy habits? Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion […]Continue Reading
by Philip Hodges The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a UN treaty that President Carter signed in 1980. As you can probably guess, “discrimination against women” just means depriving women of abortions or making abortions not easily accessible. For those countries that are party to this […]Continue Reading
War on Guns – by David Codrea “What I hope we can do is get a bill passed out of the Judiciary,” Mr. Reid said. “It may not be everything everyone wants, but I hope it has some stuff in there that’s really important.” [More] It will have nothing that will do anything but further infringe […]Continue Reading
Federal agency signed $245 million dollar contract with separate company that specializes in back-scatter machines Paul Joseph Watson Contrary to reports last week that the TSA is eliminating its expensive fleet of x-ray body scanners from airports, the federal agency signed a contract months ago with a separate company to provide the very same machines. […]Continue Reading
by Mark Horne So my state of residence is catching one version of the “Legislative Sandy Hook Panic Virus” and is considering a tax on violent video games. “A Missouri State lawmaker from Taney County wants to tax violent video games in response to the Connecticut shooting. Missouri House Representative Diane Franklin, a Republican, introduced the bill. It […]Continue Reading