Last week, when the current occupant of the White House directed the Food and Drug Administration to ban menthol cigarettes and sweetened cigar products, there was a universally negative reaction. At National Review, R Street Institute President Eli Lehrer suggests…
If it doesn’t look like avocado toast, you can’t have it. That’s the message I get loud and clear from Uncle Sam when I read story after story about the Food and Drug Administration’s latest foray into stopping ordinary Americans…
The press is full of how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo supposedly killed 15,000 of his state’s most vulnerable by sending COVID-19 patients into nursing homes. Terrible as that was, Biden, Harris, and the FDA killed many times that number…
More than 800 distilleries across the country began producing hand sanitizer under an emergency advisory issued March 26 by the Alcohol Tobacco, Trade, and Tax Bureau in order to meet the huge demand for sanitizer caused by the coronavirus pandemic. …
Since 1943 the American Association of Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) has represented health-care providers throughout the United States. Its motto is omnia pro aegroto (“everything for the patient”). On June 2, 2020, the AAPS filed a complaint in federal court…
The coronavirus did apparently originate in China. Now President Donald Trump wants to punish that country for its role in letting the virus spread to the United States. This is just another poor excuse to push the same protectionist policies…
Governments in the United States are restricting freedoms to unprecedented degrees in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As dangerous as this expansion of power is, in some ways, federal, state and local governments are also reducing their…
America: the land of the free? Behold the great modern-day paradox: Americans are free to end their lives (with professional assistance!) but face major roadblocks when fighting for them. Good news, though – policy experts are on the move to…
Last week Scott Gottlieb announced his resignation as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Unfortunately and unexpectedly, Gottlieb’s reign was a departure from lessening of government regulations so prevalent in other areas of the Trump Administration. His tenure culminated…
