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Nudgers vs. Nannies
There’s a new divide amongst Britain’s political classes, an explosive war of words over the future of our nation. It’s not the left-right divide come back from the dead, nor is it an old-fashioned prince-pauper split or a return of the roundhead-cavalier clash that so dramatically transformed Britain in the 17th century. No, the divide today is between nudgers and nannies. Between those who believe the fat, feckless masses should be nudged towards better, healthier behavior and those who

Nick Clegg's sinister nannies are 'nudging' us towards an Orwellian nightmare
Welcome to the Year of the Nudge After 13 years of New Labour nannying - all that non-stop hectoring about what we should eat, how we should raise our kids, where and with whom and how often we should have sex - many people breathed a sigh of relief when the Lib-Cons seized Downing Street in May last year. This rosy-cheeked government promised to elbow aside nanny and replace her with a renewed respect for individual autonomy. It sounded wonderful. But they’ve done nothing of the sort. I

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the Junk Food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break — they get wired into our brains. That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad. "Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting...

The Specter of Minarchy
Since I wasn’t blogging over the holidays, I missed the online dust-up over Chris Beam’s big essay on Libertarianism’s moment in the political sun. What earned Beam the most pushback from Libertarians was probably the way he finished his piece: After briskly surveying libertarian thought, from Ayn Rand to Will Wilkinson, he concluded with an extended argument that “libertarianism ventures down some fascinating paths but usually ends up deep in the wilderness.” That ...

Tobacco Products Must Be Reviewed By FDA
RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration says it must review Tobacco Products that were introduced or changed over the last four years in order for companies to keep selling them. The agency on Wednesday issued guidance to the Tobacco Industry outlining how to apply for review. Tobacco makers have until March 22 to prove that the Cigarettes or other Tobacco Products are "substantially equivalent" to ones commercially available before Feb. 15, 2007. That means the ingredients and ...

FDA: Agency must review tobacco products
(01-05) 09:24 PST Richmond, Va. (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it must review Tobacco Products that were introduced or changed over the last four years in order for companies to keep selling them. The agency on Wednesday issued guidance to the Tobacco Industry outlining how to apply for review. Tobacco makers have until March 22 to prove that the Cigarettes or other Tobacco Products are "substantially equivalent" to ones commercially available before Feb. 15, 2007. That means th...

FDA: Agency must review tobacco products
The Food and Drug Administration says it must review Tobacco Products that were introduced or changed over the last four years in order for companies to keep selling them. The agency on Wednesday issued guidance to the Tobacco Industry outlining how to apply for review. Tobacco makers have until March 22 to prove that the Cigarettes or other Tobacco Products are "substantially equivalent" to ones commercially available before Feb. 15, 2007. That means the ingredients and design are similar and d...

Warning Labels Urged for Sugary Drinks
(NewsCore) - A group of health scientists, government agencies and consumer advocates sent a letter to the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration Monday asking that Warning Labels be put on cans and bottles containing sugar-sweetened drinks. They asked that the FDA consider requiring sugary drinks carry labels warning of the connection between soda and Weight Gain, Obesity, Diabetes and other Health Problems. “In light of the overwhelming evidence linking soft drinks to seriou...

Save the economy? No, VAT's pandering to the powerful | Simon Jenkins
Today's rise in VAT, according to the chancellor, George Osborne, is the shortest route to economic salvation. According to Labour, it is a dangerous, indeed reckless, curb on demand, "the wrong tax at the wrong time." Which is right? Since I agree with the government in attacking the monster Deficit, I hesitate to agree with the reprobates who created it. But I do. The chancellor is right to reduce the deficit. Rising this winter to its highest peacetime level, its cost in interest is enormous ...

Sarah Palin Implies Support of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal (ContributorNetwork)
The political blogosphere has been roiled by Sarah Palin's retweeting a tweet by gay conservative and Palin supporter Tammy Bruce that seemed to suggest that Palin supported the Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." According to Politico: "Tammy Bruce, a Palin-friendly commentator who has interviewed the ex-governor tweeted: 'I'm focused on economic issues, and you may have noticed I was being quiet about DADT because that's not our most pressing issue...But...

McDonnell to visit Prince William school Thursday
Del. Marshall says McDonnell is wrong on 'don't ask don't tell' James P. Moran Jr. What Is Right for Virginia? Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) plans to stop in Prince William County Thursday to welcome a new fitness initiative and get a little exercise with local Students. the Governor's office said. (Maureen McDonnell is a former Redskins cheerleader.) to be active 60 Minutes a day to combat Obesity, officials said. The youth fitness zone is somewhat like a giant Wii. It uses videogaming equipme...

No, Ezra Klein, Obamacare Will Not Reduce the Deficit
Ezra Klein, he of recent “the Constitution’s old, and stuff” fame, is one of the great and most persuasive cheerleaders for the belief that Republicans cannot Repeal ObamaCare and remain fiscally responsible since — as everybody knows! — ObamaCare reduces the National Debt by $100 billion over the next ten years. He makes his case here. Taking a slightly different but in many ways similar view in National Review Online, Avik Roy concedes that, purely as a matter of ...

No, Obamacare Will Not Reduce the Deficit
Kevin D. Williamson writes in his must-read piece at NRO: "No, Ezra Klein, ObamaCare Will Not Reduce the Deficit": Ezra Klein, he of recent "the Constitution's old, and stuff" fame, is one of the great and most persuasive cheerleaders for the belief that Republicans cannot Repeal ObamaCare and remain fiscally responsible since -- as everybody knows! -- ObamaCare reduces the National Debt by $100 billion over the next ten years. He makes his case here. Taking a slightly different but in many ways...

Health Benefits of Smoking Tobacco
Thanks to Surgeon General's Warning Labels, public Smoking Bans, strict Regulation of advertising, excise taxes, and public service messages, nearly everyone in America is fully aware of the many health risks associated with Cigarette Smoking. Ongoing research has continuously proven that smoking causes lung dysfunction, Cancer, SIDS, Heart Disease, Birth Defects, preterm birth, and other serious Health Problems. Knowing this, the idea that Cigarette smoking may offer health benefits may seem ...

Pfizer Caught Short on Antismoking Drug in Japan (After Cigarette Tax Increase)
Source: NY Times When the Japanese government raised the tax on Cigarettes on Oct. 1, it could have started a Public Health revolution in this land of heavy smokers. The Tax Increase should also have been a bonanza for Pfizer, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company, which makes the leading drug to help smokers break the habit. Instead, it became a missed opportunity. Despite ample notice of the change, Pfizer failed to produce enough of the drug, Chantix, which is sold as Champix in Japan....

FDA: Agency must review tobacco products
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says it must review Tobacco Products that were introduced or changed after February 2007 in order for companies to keep selling them. The agency on Wednesday issued guidance to the Tobacco Industry outlining how to apply for review. Tobacco makers have until March 22 to prove that the Cigarettes or other Tobacco Products are “substantially equivalent” to ones commercially available before Feb. 15, 2007. That mean the ingredi...

Federal regulators to review recently introduced tobacco products
Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products introduced on the market over the past four years will have to submit to a review by federal Regulators, according to new guidelines released Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration will now require that Tobacco Products introduced or changed since Feb. 15, 2007, be "substantially equivalent" to products sold before then. "Substantially equivalent," according to the FDA, means the products "must be the same in terms of ingredients, design, composition,...

FDA: Agency must review tobacco products
Tobacco makers have until March 22 to prove that the Cigarettes or other Tobacco Products are "substantially equivalent" to ones commercially available before Feb. 15, 2007. That mean the ingredients and design are similar and do not raise different Public Health concerns. The FDA won the authority in 2009 to regulate tobacco products. Officials say this part of the law is meant to ensure that new Tobacco Products are evaluated by the FDA before they are allowed to enter the marketplace. ...

FDA Tobacco Adviser Resigns
A member of a key tobacco-advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration who faced criticism from the industry says he stepped down because he can be more helpful to the agency as an outsider. Gregory N. Connolly, a Harvard School of Public Health Professor and tobacco researcher, said Wednesday that he resigned about three weeks ago for "personal reasons" and because "I can be more effective off the committee than on it." Mr. Connolly said he wasn't pushed to resign, though "I didn't h...

New Year, Same Old MSDNC
After a nice Vacation from Keith, Chris, and the rest of the Muppets on MSDNC, I tried to watch again last night. Mistake. Matthews was busy talking about how the vote to Repeal ObamaCare scheduled by the Republicans is a political stunt because it has no chance in the Senate nor does the House GOP have the votes to override a presidential Veto of the bill. When Nancy Pelosi was engaged in similar stunts, she was somehow not engaging in political theater. To Repeal the job-killing Health Care la...

Boehner and Obama: The Task Ahead
In his opening remarks as the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner did what he had to do. He put the country and the president on notice that he takes his responsibilities seriously, that he wants the House to get down to solving the nation’s financial difficulties, and that he believes that “Elections have consequences.” Having uttered this latter phrase in his much-publicized meeting with Republican legislators last year, Obama should appreciate the poig...

The vote to repeal Obamacare is just the beginning
The Republican House of Representatives intends to hold a vote to Repeal President Obama’s healthcare law on January 12th.  The measure is widely expected to pass in the House, where the Republicans control a wide majority and many Democrats voted against the bill initially.  However, it is highly unlikely it will pass in the Senate.  In fact, the Democrats in control of the Senate could refuse to even schedule a vote on the measure.   Even if public pressure force...

Ending ObamaCare
Posted by Tait Trussell on Jan 5th, 2011 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The knives—and scalpels—are out to cut ObamaCare to ribbons or administer beneficial Plastic Surgery. Here are developments that can accomplish a coup d’etat or probably bring more rational Health Care to America. Even with 87 new Republicans joining the new House of Re...

Dem Polis Pushes Bill to Decriminalize Pot
Congressman Polis (D-CO) is introducing Legislation to decriminalize marijuana use. Its an idea with great traction these days. Folks go to jail say for an ounce of pot then they cant get a job etc.. Worse, the pot issue is greatly impacting border states. Since its illegal -and of course people in America want it- drug runners are causing all kinds of violence and death on the border. We see it daily on TV. In these economic times people like Polis see potential legalization of some marijuana u...

Why doesnt marijuana cause cancer?
The smoke from both tobacco and marijuana contains many of the same Cancer-causing chemicals, but only tobacco causes cancer. If all a person needs to get cancer is a sustained intake of carcinogens, then this divide makes no sense. Millions of people have died from tobacco-caused cancers, yet nobody ever dies from marijuana. To explain this, there must be some special difference that separates the chemical effects of marijuana smoke from the smoke of tobacco Cigarettes. The first reason why thi...