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Why Americans Are Getting Fat
Judge Richard Posner has an insightful discussion of why Americans are getting fatter and fatter. He discusses factors contributing to the obesity epidemic, such…
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When Welfare Kills
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More on Bad Court Ruling Against Terminally Ill
“Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine…
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Drug Maker Faces Lawsuit by Corrupt, Kooky Foreign Government
Pfizer is seeking the dismissal of a $2 billion lawsuit by the Nigerian state of Kano. Pfizer’s purported offense was to give children an…
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Court Rejects Terminally Ill Patients’ Chance to Live, Upholds FDA Red Tape
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 8-to-2 in Abigail Alliance v. Von Eschenbach that terminally ill people cannot challenge the FDA's ban…
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Search of Crooked Congressman’s Office Declared Illegal
Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was caught with a $90,000 bribe in his freezer. That didn’t stop his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus from rallying…