Yesterday the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity released a report aimed at “Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation.” Many of the recommendations (PDF) are unobjectionable, although the effectiveness of measures such as “a next generation Food Pyramid” and “swapping out deep fryers for salad bars” in school cafeterias is open to question. And there are several coercive elements (not counting the taxes that will be needed to fund anti-obesity boondoggles): Restaurants and vending machine operators subject to the new requirement in the Affordable Care Act [which mandates conspicuous calorie counts on menu boards] should be encouraged to begin displaying calorie counts as soon as possible…
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Can’t Wait to See That New Food Pyramid!
It is difficult to determine just what specific curriculum changes the Texas school board has in mind, though the ringleader of the revisionist faction, a creationist weirdo named Don McLeroy , strikes me as one who wants to impart ideology into the textbooks, not balance. Historians, it seems, are also skeptical .
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Don’t Mess With the Texas Curriculum
At Tuesday’s House Budget Committee meeting, Congressman Paul Ryan got White House budget-maestro Peter Orszag to admit that the administration’s new budget only kinda-sorta meets the deficit reduction standard it set for itself (the relevant exchange occurs about 29 minutes in). The administration’s self-set goal—which Orszag talked up last fall —is to get the deficit down to about three percent of GDP.
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With A Bipartisan Commission At His Side, President Obama Will Avoid Seriously Addressing Solve the Nation’s Deficit Problem
President Barack Obama’s weekly radio address over the weekend was an attack on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. the FEC .
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How Obama Rid Washington of Special Interest Lobbyists, Except for All the Special Interest Lobbyists
At last : The Local Community Radio Act passed the House of Representatives Wednesday evening with a resounding voice vote and now moves to the Senate. The bill will open the airwaves for hundreds of new non-commercial stations across the country, bringing low power radio to urban areas for the first time. Following the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the House of Representatives voted to remove technical restrictions Congress placed on low power radio in 2000 at the request of commercial broadcasters
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Low-Power Radio Gets Out of the House
The L.A. Times editorializes for reforming the forensics system: In 2006, Congress charged the National Academy of Sciences with studying the application of forensic science in the U.S. judicial system
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L.A. Times on Forensics Reform
