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A year later, soda tax rep failed to get 'scraps to very hungry state coffers'

With PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyirecently making headlines for saying that Pepsi and Doritos aren't bad for you, I thought it appropriate to address...

Scary: Nanny State, European-style social democracy

Part 3 -- Evening with conservatives: American EnterpriseThese are the terms that Arthur Brooks employs to describe the vector on which America may...

Armed environmental police shut down ice cream stand

Armed environmental police officers shut down a popular long-running ice cream stand in Massachusetts over the weekend and stood guard to make sure...

Anti-meat group to Heart Attack Grill: ‘Shut it down’

It didn’t take long for the other shoe to drop. Within hours of a report that a customer suffered a coronary while devouring a 6,000-calorie...

School refuses to allow preschooler to eat ‘non-nutritious’ lunch from home

It’s hard to say which aspect of the story out ofRaeford, North Carolina,is the most exasperating. Is it that a 4-year-old was denied...

New argument for regulating sugar: What could be bad?

Maybe it’s because today is Groundhog Day, and as in the enormously entertaining movie of that name, I have the disquieting suspicion that I...

Study: No link between junk food in schools and childhood obesity

A recently published study suggests that First Lady Michelle Obama has been firing blanks in her war on childhood obesity.The report, which appears...