There’s something terrifying about a government so powerful that it can shut down your business overnight without even bothering to offer substantive arguments. Yet that’s what Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats just did to the e-cigarette company Juul. While Juul…
The FDA has taken it upon itself to liberate America’s youth from the blight of cigarette smoking. As has sadly become typical of its activities, the regulator has reached for the 20th-century policy playbook of taxes and bans. According to…
Sacramento Insulin prices are rising, so the state has announced a plan to “explore ways to contract and manufacture our own insulin to reduce costs,” according to a tweet in January from Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Insulin should not drain your…
Someone recently asked me when Congress would hold hearings to ensure the accountability of government officials who faltered during the pandemic. After all, there is lots to be learned from mistakes made at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…
Eugenic abortion has become quietly commonplace, as evident in the paucity of disabled children seen these days. Over the years eugenic abortion increased as prenatal screening supposedly improved. But according to a recent New York Times report, prenatal screening tests for…
The Democrats during the pandemic have portrayed themselves as averse to risk and dedicated to saving all lives. It is a posture that is hard to take seriously in light of their support for such risky and anti-life policies as…
Saturday A dreary depressing day even though the sun is shining brightly in Beverly Hills. I’ll tell you why in a nutshell: The FDA has approved an abortion drug to be sold BY MAIL across the USA. This is literally…
It’s proving to be one of the greatest scandals in the century-long history of the FDA — at a time when the agency needs all the credibility it can muster. When I first wrote in The American Spectator that the…
Declaring their independence from British rule 245 years ago, the American colonists held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
