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The Myth That Eating McDonald’s Makes You Obese 0
- Free Style, Front Page, HEALTH
- June 22, 2019
By Hans Bader I lost ten pounds in the summer that I worked at McDonald’s, eating there all the time. Yet, people try to blame fast-food restaurants for their obesity. It’s one of the “myths about fast food” discussed this week in the Washington Post, which observes that “just eating burgers does not cause obesity.”
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What Happens When Everyone Gets a ‘Free’ Lunch? Money Problems 0
- Education, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Political Opinion
- June 10, 2019
A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in federal school meal programs
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The Anti-War Left’s Math Problem 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- May 15, 2019
The Anti-war Left by-and-large, well… left, sometime during Obama’s Presidency. Most were killed by the kind of partisanship that would excuse expansions of the war machine as long as the guy doing it had a “D” by his name. Among the partisans, there is still lingering denial about bombing more countries than Bush, violating the
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Biden Promises to Make America 2008-2016 Again 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page
- April 29, 2019
For the past couple of years, when I’ve criticized Trump, I’ve often heard “but Obama…” It was annoyingly irrelevant. He was no longer President. Whether or not he was “worse” or “better” than Trump didn’t change whether any specific Trump-led policies were positive or negative. The same people who rightly criticized Obama supporters for continuing
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Clinton and Obama Call Sri Lankan Church Bombing Victims “Easter Worshippers”0
- Front Page, Headline News
- April 22, 2019
Two prominent Democrats addressed the victims of the Sri Lankan church bombings that took place on Easter Sunday in a bizarre way which has upset many people on Twitter. Both Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama refused to use the word ‘Christians’ when referring to the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, which currently has
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Why do NPR and Barack Obama Follow Gay Sex Toy Twitter Accounts?0
- Free Style, Front Page
- January 29, 2019
Both NPR News and former President Barack Obama appear to follow a few interesting choice Twitter accounts. Fleshjack, a gay sex toy manufacturer as well as an account called StudJulian are both followed by the news outlet and the former President. It’s unclear why they would be following these accounts, or if they were previously
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