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Europe Rethinks Deadly Ethanol Mandates

Since ethanol mandates cause deforestation and skyrocketing food prices, the European Union is now reconsidering its biofuel mandates.  Ethanol subsidies have many bad effects. …

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Sun-Phobia Kills

Researchers are discovering that Vitamin D cuts deaths from a host of illnesses.  Exposure to the sun provides crucial Vitamin D, especially for lactose-intolerant people.  Yet…

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Another Loss for Eliot Spitzer

A New York appellate court has ruled that former state attorney general Eliot Spitzer lacked the authority to challenge the huge pay package of…

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Billion Dollar Lead Paint Judgment Reversed

The Rhode Island Supreme Court overturned a trial court ruling against paint companies sued by Rhode Island’s attorney general in a huge lead-paint lawsuit.  The companies had been found…

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AIDS Subsidies Used to Subvert Anti-AIDS Message

Taxpayer-funded AIDS subsidies are being used to subvert successful anti-AIDS programs in African countries like Uganda that succeed by instilling a politically-incorrect truth: fidelity saves lives.  That’s what Sam…

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Bond Ratings Scam: Feds Protect Failure

The Wall Street Journal explains how federal and state regulations block competition with the rating agencies that fueled the mortgage crisis by giving ridiculously rosey ratings…

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Sexual Harassment and Hypocrisy

Alex Harris notes that hypocrisy can affect obscenity prosecutions, at the expense of free expression.  He quotes a lawyer who observes that  “Time and time again you’ll have…

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Big Tax Increase Looms

A big tax increase is likely during the next administration, with self-employed people in many areas facing marginal tax rates of “60% or higher”…

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Environmental Myths Harm Our Planet

Locally-grown and produced food isn’t necessarily better for the environment, or more economical for society, than food produced elsewhere.  It often costs more and results in more…

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Ethanol’s Human Costs

Ethanol subsidies, which have contributed to hunger, riots and environmental destruction across the globe, are now contributing to slave labor on sugar plantations in…