Animal Rights
Frequent Flyers Beware: Here Comes PCRM Again
(November 18, 2008)
If it's the week before Thanksgiving, it must be that special time again -- time for travel writers to be duped by a phony "healthy" airport-food survey from the equally phony Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The animal rights zealots who pose as a mainstream health charity pull this stunt every year, and their agenda gets more and more transparent each time. So far this...
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Big Government
Let’s Learn from the Scandinavians!
(November 17, 2008)
Visit Scandinavia, and you'll notice two things in comparison with the U.S. of A. (besides the proliferation of IKEA stores): fewer obese people, and more of them moving. Sweden, Denmark, and their Nordic neighbors have the same ubiquitous fast food restaurants as we do. Their menus include paltry (if any) nutrition information. And this is the home of the smorgasbord. Yet there's no "obesity epidemic"...
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Animal Rights
Quote of the Week
(November 17, 2008)
We usually don't weigh in on the animal-rights war over fur and fashion -- and it's only Monday -- but this is too good not to make our Quote of the Week. Following a Paris "flour bomb" attack on actress Lindsay Lohan by activists with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Lohan's long-time partner Samantha Ronson fired back with a vengeance on her...
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Animal Rights
Maybe PETA Just Wants a Monopoly On Clowns
(November 14, 2008)
The circus is in town for Chicagoans this month, but it could be the very last time -- if the animal-rights nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals get their way. The anti-everything group has an ally in Chicago Alderman Mary Ann Smith, who has been trying this year to do PETA's bidding by involving city government in how elephant trainers do their...
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