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Statistics show that obesity and diabetes are on a trajectory to be to today's kids what a house and white-picket fence were to the previous generation.
No surprise then that governments "solutions" crop up like kudzu, the latest being New York City's proposed ban on soft drinks 16 ounces and up.We fault our politicians because they lack the courage to deal with difficult problems in a meaningful way. So, it's refreshing to have a politician like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg actually try to solve what seems like an intractable problem. Only, it's not the right solution.The problem is too many calories going in and not enough going out. Those calories come from everywhere, not just soft drinks. Soft drinks are simply the easiest target to demagogue.A liter of Coca-Cola has 400 calories and 108 grams of sugar. A Haagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate Shake has 1,260 calories and 102 grams of sugar plus 79 grams of fat, 47 of them, saturated. No one's talking about banning, limiting or tax...
Rep. Jason Chaffetz on congressional hearings
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John Danilovich discusses the United States' relationship with Brazil
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Jim Pinkerton weighs in on new film
Watch the ‘FOX News Sunday' panel, Brit Hume, AB Stoddard, Bill Kristol and Charles Lane, as they discuss the 2012 GOP battle for the nomination, in our web exclusive Panel Plus
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One morning last February, Ali Tarhouni, a professor at the University of Washington's business school, gave his microeconomics students some startling news: He woul...
An international conference Monday on the future of Afghanistan was overshadowed by a public display of bad blood between the United States and Pakistan, the two nat...
Alan speaks with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson about his role in the presidential election.
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Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuri...
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As we saw earlier, in Part 1 of this series, both of the two major political parties are having a hard time winning the confidence of the American people--and thus f...
Outraged by lavish government conferences on the taxpayers' tab, the House easily approved a measure Wednesday to impose tough limits on future events and how much a...
Fmr Gov Gary Johnson seeking Libertarian Presidential Nomination
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