Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

50 Years Later, Barry Goldwater's GOP Convention Speech Still Resonates

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“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” was the biggest applause line of Barry Goldwater's speech accepting his party's nominat...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Call for Philip Morris!

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I hope that, when I write about tobacco issues , people understand that I am a lifelong non-smoker. Perhaps, because I grew up in a smoking...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

Wrong Answer

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By my own conscientious choice, I am a lifelong non-smoker, but I am nonetheless disturbed that Virginia must now live with its freedom-erod...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

The Nanny State Creeps On

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Last November, I posted a terrifically entertaining and informative video from Reason.tv about anti-smoking ordinances around the country....
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Ever-Expanding Reach of the Nanny State

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The folks at ReasonTV have hit another home run with this video about smoking bans -- including an ordinance in Belmont, California, that p...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

New York Gov't Encourages Growth of Organized Crime

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The big news from New York today is that a new cigarette tax has become mandatory. As Paul Merrill reports for Albany TV station WXXA : A s...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Listen to Your Radio

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On "The Schilling Show" today on WINA radio (1070 AM), Jim Lark of the Jefferson Area Libertarians will be one of the guests dis...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Definition of Irony, Part 342

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Isn't it ironic that, just as Cuba is on the verge of freedom after a half century of brutal Communist dictatorship, it has become illeg...
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Monday, February 11, 2008

Innovation to Circumvent Injustice

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As we tread steadily toward a nationwide ban on smoking in public, a resort owner in Minnesota has come up with an innovative way to circumv...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

My, How Things Have Changed!

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I came across some retro commercials today, all from the original run of The Flintstones back in the early 1960s. Anyone born past 1971 may...
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