Monthly Archives: May 2014

The Shocking Truth About Regulatory Costs

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“After years of rapid growth during the Obama administration, the cost of federal regulations is now bigger than the entire economies of all but nine countries in the world. Author Clyde Wayne Crews found that the ‘regulation tax’ imposed on the economy now tops $1.86 trillion. By comparison, Canada’s entire GDP is $1.82 trillion. India’s is $1.84 trillion. [..] The article also notes that on a per-household basis, federal regulatory costs average nearly US$15,000. US regulations are not “capped” nor are they subject to specific legislative oversight. In theory, regulations and regulatory costs can simply continue to grow until they become literally unaffordable.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35259/The-Shocking-Truth-About-Regulatory-Costs/

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CDC director explains what he hates about electronic cigarettes

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“Of all the threats to Americans’ health — a list that includes bird flu, measles and West Nile virus — few get Dr. Tom Frieden as riled up as electronic cigarettes.  As director of the CDC, Frieden has a ready-made platform for spreading his views about the dangers of vaping.  He said, ‘people have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause. It still kills more than 1,000 people a day. As a doctor, I can tell you it kills them in really unpleasant ways — gasping for breath with emphysema, with cancer, with heart disease.’  What does that have to do with e-cigarettes?  ‘E-cigarettes are a tobacco product,’ he said.”

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-why-tom-frieden-hates-electronic-cigarettes-cdc-20140429,0,4147326.story

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Cannabis: History, Legalization, Regulation, & the Public Health Model

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“The first recorded mention of cannabis as therapy is 2000 years before the common era (BCE) in the pharmacopeia of Chinese medicine. In the ancient Near East, it was ground into a paste with honey and inserted vaginally to ease the pain of childbirth. Caesar’s physician used the oil from seeds to alleviate earaches. Queen Victoria’s physician prescribed it for menstrual cramps. It’s ironic to contemplate that 100 years ago cannabis tinctures were widely used and doctors knew all about it and how it worked for various conditions. One hundred years later, doctors know almost nothing.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35265/Anthony-Wile-NORML-Canadas-Craig-Jones-on-Cannabis–History-Legalization-Regulation-and-the-Public-Health-Model/

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Fight Back Against Hidden Regulations That Threaten Your Health

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“It’s ironic, sadly ironic that the amendments were passed in order to prevent the Thalidomide type tragedy. And here we go folic acid, a ‘B’ vitamin, was shown to prevent spina bifada and other really tragic problems in young children. Folic acid manufacturers were told if they talked about this they would be shut down because they hadn’t gone through all these hoops that pharmaceutical drugs go through.  And if you make a claim you can prevent disease in the U.S. you have to go through the FDA process because commercial speech is not protected.  So that was very sad; about 25,000 babies were probably born with these defects that they didn’t need. And many more were aborted.”

http://isil.org/how-to-fight-back-against-hidden-regulations-that-threaten-your-health/

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Congress Votes NO On VA Hospitals Prescribing Cannabis To Veterans

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Marxist Publishing House Asserts Copyright Against Free Websites

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“Lawrence & Wishart, a profit-seeking leftist publisher of the collected works of Marx and Engels, is threatening legal action against Marxists.org, a website run by a remnant of the last remaining English-speaking Marxists.  Marxists.org posts English-language translations of the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other bourgeois members of the Inevitable Wave of the Future. These are free. That’s the problem. Lawrence & Wishart find it hard to compete against ‘free.’  So, it’s hard times in Commieland. The realities of free publishing online are these: a copyright-holding, profit-seeking firm is trying to make a few bucks by selling the Word as Revealed.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12395.cfm

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Phoenix VA officials put on leave after denial of secret wait list

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“The director of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system and two others have been placed on administrative leave amid claims of a secret waiting list and claims that 40-plus veterans died waiting for care.  The announcement Thursday by U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki came a day after officials at the Phoenix VA denied in interviews with CNN the existence of such a list, only to be called liars hours later by the top VA physician who first appeared on CNN and brought the allegations to light.  The sources said more than 1,400 veterans were placed on the purported secret list and that documents were shredded to hide the evidence.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/

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Arizona Makes “Revenge Porn” A Felony

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“The new legislation means Arizona will be the first state to make posting ‘revenge porn’ online a felony offense. The Arizona Legislature unanimously passed the bill one week ago and the governor signed it into law last Wednesday.  Revenge porn is a disturbing societal trend, but is the best path to limiting the act by punishing the practice through the criminal courts?  The Arizona law and similar laws in other states could have unintended consequences on constitutionally protected free speech. The conduct of posting a picture online, even without the consent of the person pictured, is speech. Speech is supposedly protected by the First Amendment.”

http://lionsofliberty.com/2014/05/02/felony-friday-arizona-makes-revenge-porn-a-felony/

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Police Crack Down On High Schoolers’ Nerf Gun Battle

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“It all started when neighbors reported someone pointing a gun at a car one night earlier in the week.  ‘They did scare a number of people in the area,’ Capt. Ben Bliven of the Wausau Police Department told WAOW-TV.  There’s one tiny wrinkle in this incident, though — the students weren’t carrying real guns.  They were Nerf guns — and part of a game trending in popularity called ‘Nerf Wars.’  Police cited the six seniors for disorderly conduct. In addition, their high school, Wausau West, placed some of them on athletic probation.  The students aren’t happy about the outcome. ‘I think it was a little overdone with the cops coming and the guns they brought with them,’ senior Brad Gajewski said.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/26/high-schoolers-gun-battle-lands-them-in-deep-trouble-with-police-administration-but-theres-just-one-tiny-problem/

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When We Almost Nuked Savannah: The Case of the Missing H-Bomb

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“Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were AWOL.  But what’s truly chilling is the fact that the Pentagon has lost track of the mother of all weapons, a hydrogen bomb. The thermonuclear weapon, designed to incinerate Moscow, has been sitting somewhere off the coast of Savannah, Georgia for the past 55 years. The Air Force has gone to greater lengths to conceal the mishap than to locate the bomb and secure it.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/25/the-case-of-the-missing-h-bomb-2/

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