Germany yesterday, UK today, tomorrow the world
This piece published on Junkfood Science is recommended reading – and we mean that.
Fun for girls and boys
<div style="text-align: justify">Killjoys have always been around, and they’re after all of us, these days. Fight back, boys and girls, together!</div>
Mortgage crisis, the dollar and its future, Part 2
<div style="text-align: justify">The Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) were established with public approval but planted the seeds of future problems.</div>
Unintended consequences of intentional coercion
<div style="text-align: justify">It’s no secret that this decade has been one in which behavior modifiers have found great support for their schemes of eliminating personal liberty.</div>
Mike Kennedy now in the Multimedia section
<div style="text-align: justify">Our Multimedia section is now richer with a new section about the incredible story of Mike Kennedy, a Canadian who was interviewed by <a href="https://www.forces.org/Multimedia_Portal/index.php?selection=275">Gian Turci in a recent Round Table</a> (<a href="https://www.forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1340">more information here</a>).</div>
Smoking ban ordinances
<div style="text-align: justify">I am in the process of archiving Smoking Ban Ordinances from around our nation. </div>
On the sick obsession with health
<div style="text-align: justify;">From one of the most sickly obsessed-with-public-health countries in the world, Canada, comes one of the most relaxed and clear pieces on the incredible paranoia over health and environment that is transforming nations into bankrupt prisons.</div>
Shrinking tax revenue flabbergasts dim pols
<div style="text-align: justify">Dashing hopes that high cigarette taxes would bring fiscal relief to teetering Maryland, smokers there flip off the politicans and keep on smoking at a fairer price.</div>
Smoking bans increase heart attacks
<div style="text-align: justify">Interesting article by Jacob Sullum on the latest permutation of the passive smoking fraud – that smoking bans decrease heart attacks.</div>
Scalping Can Come Back at You
<div style="text-align: justify;">New York’s Governor David Paterson may sign legislation mandating collection of state cigarette tax at New York’s Indian reservations.</div>