This week a National Academy of Sciences panel recommended that the federal government
raise taxes on adult beverages (including tripling excise taxes on beer), ostensibly to deter underage drinking. Of course, most of the panel's members have
close ties with the neo-prohibitionist
Robert...
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The more popular a magazine is with teens, the more likely it is to contain alcohol ads," reads one outrageously misleading headline -- based on the equally misleading research bought and paid for by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). A recent study published in
JAMA...
Under the outrageously misleading headline, "
Montana Legislature Balks at Outlawing Drunk Driving," the Associated Press reports that Montana lawmakers recently decided not to ban open liquor containers in cars and trucks.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) sneered that "there's still perhaps some carry-over from people whose...
Seventy years ago this week, beer became legal in the United States (at least beer with less than 3.2 percent alcohol content). According to the
Denver Post,
"it was 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt announced happily as he signed the bill authorizing repeal, 'I think this would...
U.S. Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) yesterday announced "their intention to
monitor underage drinking trends and the extent to which alcohol industry advertising is reaching underage youth, including possibly holding a hearing on the issue." Dodd cites "new findings from the Center on Alcohol...
In all likelihood, Michigan
will soon succumb to Federal blackmail and bootstrapping by
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and lower its legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) for driving to .08 percent. One proposal would even drive the legal BAC down to the impossibly low .05 percent. That...
Public Health nannies, too, bloom in the Spring. April is
"Alcohol Awareness Month" and the upcoming April 4-6 weekend is
"Alcohol Free Weekend." From April 7th to the 13th, busybodies everywhere will celebrate
"National Public Health Week," whose theme this year is "overweight...
One of the reasons kids like the
Harry Potter series so much is that it involves school children discovering the intrigues -- and seeing through the deceptions -- of adults. So it is especially obtuse for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to tell kids that the...
