Michael Bloomberg's Anti-Vaping Crusade Is Objectively Pro-Tobacco
The billionaire busybody is pushing bans on the flavored e-cigarettes that offer a harm-reducing alternative to smoking.
The billionaire busybody is pushing bans on the flavored e-cigarettes that offer a harm-reducing alternative to smoking.
Who's ready for a class war from the party of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and the Kennedy/Roosevelt clans?
It's safe to say this guy would not make a good president.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the former vice president acknowledges regrets about his role in the drug war and mass incarcerations.
The latest trial balloon from the perennial White House Hamlet contains more lead than the paint of a New York public school.
The former New York mayor's authoritarian record shows he has no real love for America's founding document.
Both New York billionaires overestimate the program's effectiveness and overlook its constitutional defects.
The former New York mayor defends his stop-and-frisk policy while suggesting the famous TV host did not get a fair hearing.
Everybody realized it was about bringing in money, not improving public health.
Says Americans have to come together and embrace the freedoms the founding fathers established.
New data out of Mexico pour cold water over heated rhetoric.
He fears that even if he came in first place, rogues in Congress would throw it to Trump or Cruz minus a clear Electoral College majority.
Can we really say taxes that reduce consumption but aren't reducing obesity are effective?
Don't discount Michael Bloomberg yet.
So a Manhattan real estate mogul meets a Brooklyn socialist, a well-heeled carpetbagger and a former NYC mayor in a bar….
The obstacles seem quite surmountable given his cash and the relevant deadlines.
Or, what in hell is any Michael Bloomberg group doing anywhere near regular BLM-related phone calls?
He can't be trusted to respect citizens' rights.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro's SWEET Act would implement an excise tax on soda and other sweetened drinks. Supporters of the measure are difficult to find.
The former New York City mayor continues to maintain a high political profile.
"There was more disagreement among the old Soviet politburo than there is among Ivy League donors," said Bloomberg.
Are e-cigs the most important public health breakthrough of our time?
Aide to the former New York mayor says the donation is a result of Bloomberg's relationship with Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Answers the question: How quickly can New Yorkers miss Nanny Bloomberg?
He will still be an authoritarian nanny, just not in public office
For food freedom, 2013 was a banner year that saw the defeat of several potentially awful laws and regulations.
Even though crime went down everywhere, not just New York City
The leftist De Blasio's not having it
Tried to frame husband for mailing tainted letters to president, Mayor Bloomberg
Not "particularly" at least; Bloomberg expressed displeasure at the entire field of mayoral candidates
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