All Posts Tagged With: "fast food"
Food Debate: Stick to Persuasion
The vibrant social debate over what makes for good food and where to get it is an excellent one to have. But let’s keep it (and the choices people make) out in the open, not behind the counter of the State.
15Jun2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 7 comments | ContinuedLawyers Run Amok
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. As Washington, D.C., prepared for the descent of thousands of anti-globalization protesters last fall, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf proposed deploying the ultimate weapon: trial lawyers. Hit the demonstrators with a [...]
1Apr2003 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedNazi Tactics
Prior to the 1930s, Germany was Europe’s most hospitable country for Jews. While Jews were only 1 percent of the population, they were oneourth of Germany’s law and medical students. In some German cities, Jews were the majority of doctors. While Jews were only 5 percent of the Berlin population in 1905, they paid 31 [...]
30Jan2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedFast Food and Personal Responsibility
Ninos Malek teaches economics at San Jose State University, De Anza College, and Valley Christian High School. By now everyone knows that the fast-food chains are being sued because they allegedly contribute to obesity. On Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” program last July, Samuel Hirsch, the attorney who filed lawsuits against McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and [...]
1Jan2003 | Ninos P. Malek | 2 comments | ContinuedThe New China
Larry Tritten is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, the National Lampoon, and other publications. My first impressions of China came from the movies and comic books of the World War II era. The Chinese were always presented as our courageous allies, the salt-of-the earth people who risked their lives [...]
1Sep2001 | Larry Tritten | 2 comments | Continued-
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