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What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.
-- Thomas Sowell

Tobacco Nazis – It Can Happen Here!        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano        Last week’s hearing on the proposed smoking ban was a real eye opener for me.  (See accompanying article by Terry Gray and his web site for details of the testimony.)  It quickly became clear that the people favoring the smoking ban do not care that they will put some good, hard-working people out of business or that they are destroying people’s property rights.  These folks are crusaders, determined to save the world in theory, and they don’t care what real, flesh and blood people they mow down in the process!  (It is also interesting to note how many of these crusaders are receiving funding from tobacco settlement money or anti-smoking organizations, but that’s another story.)          (Click to Read More)

Vouchers provide incentives for failing schools, freedom for parents       by Jim Waters  Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions       The Bluegrass Institute applauds Rep. Ernie Fletcher’s recent tie-breaking vote allowing low-income students in Washington, D.C. to escape that city’s educational ghettoes. The institute believes the time has arrived to apply free market principles in the form of vouchers to America’s education system.           (Click to Read More)

The Patriot Act        By BERNARD J. KUNKEL        

John Ashcroft and his pep rallies on the Patriot Act miss the point. Basically, the Attorney General is saying: We are from the government; trust us when we say the Patriot Act does not threaten civil liberties. But in a free society the assurances of government fall woefully short.           (Click to Read More)

BOARD OF HEALTH MEETINGS       By Terry Gray        As plumes of smoke rose from the World Trade Center Towers on 9-11, the Board of Health in New York and the EPA assured people that it was only smoke and contained no toxins.  I don’t doubt for a second that people in that building smoked cigarettes, and I know that cigarettes were sold there.  So, discounting any other toxins emitted into the air by burning debris that day, we know that tobacco was burning.  From this we can logically deduce that the EPA and the New York Board of Health essentially admitted on 9-11 that tobacco smoke isn’t toxic.          (Click to Read More)

Sprawl and Obesity: A Flawed Connection        by Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.        A new report from Smart Growth America and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl, links growing obesity concerns with sprawl. The report's findings, however, fall short of supporting this conclusion.          (Click to Read More)

Transit Advocates Want the Working Poor to Use Bikes and Buses, Not Cars         by Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.          As fiscal year 2003 comes to a close, Congress will attempt to complete major transportation legislation to reauthorize the federal surface transportation program for another six years. With total spending of $247 billion to $370 billion at stake, lobbyists and advocates for various industries and causes are working overtime on behalf of their favorite programs.          (Click to Read More)

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