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- Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy
- Obama Now Blames The Internet For Job Losses
- Obama FDA Considers Putting Morning-After Pill on Supermarket Shelves
- Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
- Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes on yourself
- Why a Newt Gingrich Candidacy Would Doom the Tea Party
- Tea Party Recall Verification Effort in Wisconsin Starts Strong
| Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:28 PM PST From: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are ordering several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta. The Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to seven companies that sell the protein as drops, pellets or sprays. Human chorionic gonadotropin is produced by the placenta and found in the urine of pregnant women. While it is approved for certain infertility treatments, the FDA says there is no evidence it helps reduce weight. Many of the products cited in the warning letters claim to change “abnormal eating patterns,” and help people lose 20 to 30 pounds in as little as a month when used with a low-calorie diet, usually around 500 calories per day. Health experts say such restrictive diets can be dangerous. “These products are marketed with incredible claims and people think that if they’re losing weight, HCG must be working,” said Elizabeth Miller, of FDA’s division for non-prescription drugs and health fraud, in a statement. “But the data simply does not support this – any loss is from severe calorie restriction. Not from the HCG.” The products are advertised as homeopathic remedies, or highly diluted drugs made from natural ingredients and sold with medical claims. Many doctors view homeopathic remedies as ineffective but mostly harmless because the drugs in them are present in such tiny amounts. To read more, visit: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FDA_WEIGHT_LOSS_REMEDY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-06-10-50-05 |
| Obama Now Blames The Internet For Job Losses Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:25 PM PST From: RealClearPolitics.com Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn’t just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the internet,” President Obama said at a campaign event in Kansas. To read more, visit: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/06/obama_now_blames_the_internet_for_job_losses.html |
| Obama FDA Considers Putting Morning-After Pill on Supermarket Shelves Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:21 PM PST BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON, WeeklyStandard.com The Washington Post reports that, under President Obama and his Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Food and Drug Administration is considering letting "anyone of any age buy the controversial morning-after pill Plan B directly off drugstore and supermarket shelves without a prescription." The Post writes, "The Food and Drug Administration has until Wednesday to respond to a request from the drug's manufacturer to make the pill as easy to get as toilet paper and toothpaste…. "Opponents, however, say such a decision would expose girls and women to potential risks from taking high doses of a potent hormone, interfere with parents' ability to monitor their children and make it easier for men to prey on vulnerable minors…. "[The] pill would move out from behind pharmacists' counters, eliminating the requirement that women produce a prescription or prove that they are at least 17 years old to get it without a doctor's order. Instead, Plan B would be available on store shelves, along with condoms, contraceptive sponges and spermicides. "'Hopefully, it will be right on the shelves between the condoms and the pregnancy tests,' said Kirsten Moore of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, a Washington-based advocacy group…. "Plan B consists of a synthetic form of progesterone; this hormone is found in many standard birth-control pills, but Plan B contains it at higher doses…. To read more, visit: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fda-considers-putting-morning-after-pill-supermarket-shelves_611641.html |
| Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:18 PM PST By Michael O’Connell, Federal New Radio The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library’s repository of historical documents. “We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public,” said Bill Lefurgy, the digital initiatives program manager at the library’s national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. “The archives don’t contain tweets that users have protected, but everything else — billions and billions of tweets — are there.” Lefurgy joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris Tuesday morning to talk about the library’s digital mission. Using new technical processes it has developed, Twitter is moving a large quantity of electronic data from one electronic source to another. “They’ve had to do some pretty nifty experimentation and invention to develop the tools and a process to be able to move all of that data over to us,” Lefurgy said. The Library of Congress has long been the repository of important, historical documents and the Twitter library, as a whole, is something historic in itself. “We were excited to be involved with acquiring the Twitter archives because it’s a unique record of our time,” Lefurgy said. “It’s also a unique way of communication. It’s not so much that people are going to be interested in what you or I had for lunch, which some people like to say on Twitter.” To read more, visit: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=247&sid=2658996 |
| Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes on yourself Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:39 PM PST By Daniel B. Wood, The Christian Science Monitor Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday proposed a ballot initiative that would ask Californians to raise taxes on themselves. Facing huge deficits despite $10 billion in budget cuts last year, California needs new tax dollars in order to avoid catastrophic cuts to schools and government services for the elderly, Governor Brown said. His plan includes a 1 percent income-tax-rate increase for individuals making more than $250,000 per year, and a 2 percent rate increase for those making more than $500,000. It would also increase the state sales tax by half a cent to 7.75 percent. In total, at least 10 initiatives that propose tax increases are vying to qualify for the 2012 ballot in California – a sign that the state that led the national tax revolt with Proposition 13 in 1978 might now be considering at least a partial reversal of course. With many states still focused only on cuts, such a bold statement from California could reverberate nationwide – either giving other states cover to try similar measures or showing that, even with budgets in dire straits, tax increases are a political impossibility. "A victory for tax increases in California could encourage similar moves in other states," says Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College. "If the tax measure goes down to defeat – in a blue state running a huge deficit – the effect would be to chill such proposals in other states for many years to come." To read more, visit: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/1205/Gov.-Jerry-Brown-implores-California-voters-Please-raise-taxes-on-yourself |
| Why a Newt Gingrich Candidacy Would Doom the Tea Party Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:34 PM PST
Gallup finds that 82 percent of Tea Party affiliated voters deem Newt Gingrich an acceptable Republican presidential nominee in 2012. They don’t seem to realize that if he wins the nod their movement is doomed, regardless of how the general election goes. The Tea Party cannot support Gingrich without betraying its core principles. But the movement also cannot disclaim him once he is the Republican nominee. Tea Partiers with a better instinct for self-preservation would see that none of the Mitt Romney alternatives still running would be as corrosive to their cause as the former Speaker of the House. Why? The Tea Party wasn’t just a reaction to President Obama or the financial industry bailouts. As Jonah Goldberg puts it, “a major motivating passion of the tea-party movement was a long-delayed backlash against George W. Bush and his big-government conservatism.” Support for the War on Terrorism and the invasion of Iraq caused many conservatives to stay loyal to Bush. But that didn’t mean they liked No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, the attempt at a guest worker program, TARP, or the Harriet Miers nomination. Especially after the defeat of John McCain, many on the right insisted they’d never again support Bush-Rove conservatism. And Gingrich supported almost all the most controversial Bush-Rove policies! He favored No Child Left Behind, an unprecedented federal intervention in education. He supported Medicare Part D, a brand new, budget-busting drug entitlement. He supported “comprehensive immigration reform,” perhaps the most divisive-among-conservatives policy initiative of the aughts. He urged the passage of TARP. And he even spoke favorably about the infamous Harriet Miers nomination, a George W. Bush misstep that caused many of his most loyal supporters to rebel. Tea Partiers pledged that if they had their way the GOP would never again have as its champion a federal government enlarging, entitlement expanding, amnesty urging, Bush-style Republican. To read more, visit: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/why-a-newt-gingrich-candidacy-would-doom-the-tea-party/249534/ |
| Tea Party Recall Verification Effort in Wisconsin Starts Strong Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:31 PM PST by Brett Healy, BIGGOVERNMENT.com Tea Party leaders in Wisconsin are happy with what they are calling an overwhelming response to their efforts to verify the signatures on the Governor Scott Walker Recall petitions. In one day, more than 1,000 volunteers from across Wisconsin and the nation have already signed up to help two Tea Party groups verify the petitions in the upcoming gubernatorial recall. "The response [Monday] has been overwhelming," said Ross Brown of the Tea Party group, We the People of the Republic, one of two nonprofit organizations sponsoring the project. "Verify The Recall has become a national story less than 24 hours after it was announced.' Brown's comments came in an email update to supporters. His group is partnering with The Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty to sponsor the online VerifyTheRecall.com project. It is at that website where volunteers can sign up to enter the data from the handwritten petitions. The groups announced that more than 1,200 individuals signed up on the website in the first 24 hours since the site was launched. To read more, visit: http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2011/12/06/tea-party-recall-verification-effort-in-wisconsin-starts-strong/ |
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