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Editor's Note
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The News-
Smoke Fills
Bars Despite Smoking Ban
by News Channel 8's Leigh Frillici
New Haven-WTNH, Nov. 6, 2004 11:05 PM
The smoky bar
scene in Connecticut should be a thing of the past. . . -MORE-
Judge Upholds
Ban On Smoking
By CHRISTOPHER KEATING
Capitol Bureau Chief
Hartford Courant
November 9, 2004
In a victory
for health advocates, a Superior Court judge in Hartford has thrown out
a lawsuit that sought to overturn the state's new smoking ban . .
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Bar owners file
suit against smoking ban
Saturday, July 10, 2004
By Robyn Adams and Ben Conery
© 2004 Republican-American
Restaurateurs
and bar keepers have been asking the state to butt out. -MORE-
Bill Banning
Junk Food in Schools Called 'Legislative Lunacy
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, is pressing for
passage of a bill that would remove candy, chips and other snack foods
from the nation's public schools. But one group has condemned the bill
as "legislative lunacy." -MORE-
Group Urges
Congress to Ratify Global Tobacco Treaty
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com
Deputy Managing Editor
May 11, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - The American Lung Association
is urging the Bush administration to quickly submit to Congress a
global tobacco treaty that was signed by Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson on behalf of the U.S. government. -MORE-
Monsanto Caves
to Activists on Biotech Wheat
Friday, May 14, 2004
By Steven Milloy
Is it better to feed the poor and make money, or appease Greenpeace and
do neither? -MORE-
Anti-Meat
Activists Target School Lunches
Thursday, May 27, 2004
By Steven Milloy
A health scare
over school lunches is brewing. The driving forces behind the junk
science-fueled scare are the usual suspects -- anti-meat and
environmental activist groups, and politicians who do the groups'
bidding. -MORE-
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-Noteworthy-
McDermott
Speaks Up
 “Smokers
didn't cause the deficits of the State of Connecticut, but we're being
forced to pay the bill for that. I've asked myself over and over and
over
again why are we doing this? The simple and only reason and answer is
because
we can. We can do it because there are not enough people to stand up
and
say no. Because people in here that understand the political
correctness
of society, realize that smokers should be somebody that's put off to
the
side and not paid attention to too much and they won't bicker, they
won't
complain, they'll just go ahead and go along with things. Well, there
are
approximately 600,000 smokers in the State of Connecticut that deserve
to have at least a voice in this Chamber. It's not easy for me to stand
up because I know this is not the most politically expedient thing for
me to be doing, standing up here as a smoker, fighting for smokers'
rights,
but I'm going to do that. I'm going to say that they deserve to have
that
voice.” -Democrat Connecticut Senator Brian McDermott speaking
to
the bill to raise Connecticut’s cigarette tax -
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 And
the Forces CT Jackass of the Day Award goes to...
Connecticut
State Representative Demetrios Giannaros (D) who stated he voted for
the
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Food
for Thought
"As
an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has
always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain
when
awake." -Mark
Twain-
"It
is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater
evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of
plunder." -Frederic
Bastiat-
"The
nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the
government
and I'm here to help." -Ronald
Reagan-
“Tyranny
doesn't have to mean a grumpy dictator with a funny mustache; it can be
exercised by pleasant guys who shave and smile. Its essence is lawless
government -- government that makes countless laws because it
recognizes
no law above itself.”- Columnist Joe Sobran
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"Is life so dear
or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may
take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry-
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How Tyranny
Came to America
By Joseph Sobran
-Read
his brilliant essay here-
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