If you haven’t already read up on the endlessly fascinating proceedings of the annual meeting of the National Governors’ Association, you probably missed the news that former President Bill Clinton…
While some revelers are out celebrating Mardi Gras, a few Maryland legislators are conspiring to make it a Non-Fat Tuesday. The General Assembly in Annapolis is considering legislation that would…
Contra Costa (California) County supervisor Mark DeSaulnier needs to go on the zoning diet — he’s clearly power-hungry. DeSaulnier seems to have taken a cue from other politicians further…
Just yesterday we told you about our latest op-ed, which stressed the key role of personal responsibility in keeping yourself fit and healthy. This message came not a moment…
When a Chicago chef begged the city to keep its laws off his menus, animal-rights radicals retaliated by vandalizing his restaurant, smashing his window and destroying flower boxes.
In May, we told you that Detroiters didn’t take kindly to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s misguided tax aimed at fast food. But that hasn’t stopped Michigan father-and-son state legislative…
Too often, food cops shoot first and ask questions later. For years activists and academics like Yale University’s Kelly Brownell have whined that our so-called “toxic food…
Food cops, trial lawyers, and pharmaceutical interests looking to write their own prescription for fat profits have hitched their wagons to obesity hype. But…
Notice to the chefs, line cooks, and waiters of America: Cut down the portions, and come out with your hands up. Government regulation of our meal size is the latest…
Unbridled obesity panic could soon put the Good Humor Man on ice in San Diego. A group of food scolds, commissioned by the city’s Board of Supervisors, has drafted “strategies”…
