Congressman Raul Grijalva, (D-Arizona), has some interesting ideas about science.Namely, he thinks that all of the government scientists in the State Department who did numerous environmental impact assessments regarding the Keystone XL project don't know what they are talking about. And that he can prove it with a few rocks. read...
read moreI generally didn't have much of an issue with the intent behind the High Quality Research Act. read...
read moreVermont Senator Bernie Sanders knows that the The Food and Drug Administration will not require any special label on foods just because a competitor seeks to market its product differently.And marketing is the only distinction between organic food and traditional food. It's a process and they don't require regular meat to have a big NON-KOSHER label on it either. Kosher food just puts a 'kosher'...
read moreNext month, the US and Europe would like to make some progress in tearing down trade barriers, an archaic notion left over from the Colonial period in history.(1)Special trade agreements with blocs, like The Hanseatic League of the 12th century, were always common, but restrictions enjoyed a popularity boom after the collapse of the East India Trade Company in 1799 became the poster child for the...
read moreIf you live in California, you can never get too amazed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. If there is a progressive position that an activist court can take, they usually take it.If you can't go to a national chain store and get your eyes checked and buy glasses, the 9th is why - they ruled that is medical care and health care is not interstate in America. Sure, we can mandate health care and...
read moreThere are some places where food is easy to grow and some where it is not. Nature is not fair.Expecting companies in countries with food to ship it everywhere for free is not practical and the poorest people don't have the money to import food, so they are stuck in a hunger Catch-22. There are differing schools of thought on how to solve the problem.The positive approach - science - is to make it...
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