Not satisfied with having violated rights and gotten a trans fat ban and calorie count posting mandates in NYC, Mayor Bloomberg is now talking about getting New Yorkers to cut their sodium intake by “encouraging” food manufacturers to reduce the amount of salt in their products. He claims he won’t legislate salt reductions, but a) that’s only because they’d be nearly impossible to enforce (what food manufacturer is going to come up with salt-free Read more

Even as the pharmaceutical industry has been colluding with Washington in hopes of having healthcare “reform” be favorable to its bottom line, Congress has been investigating the industry’s pricing practices — and politicians don’t like what they see. They’re upset that certain drugs — those that are sold to smaller numbers of patients than, say, a blockbuster like Lipitor, but that are no less important to the patients who need them — have had Read more