weeklystandard.com - 12/27/2008
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A hefty problem for the left. by Andrew Ferguson 01/05/2009, Volume 014, Issue 16
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Smoking new and old
Power Line —
Andrew Ferguson explains that "obesity is the new smoking." Christopher Caldwell documents the obsession with the old smoking.
ANDREW FERGUSON on the politics of fat….
Instapundit —
ANDREW FERGUSON on the politics of fat.
Anatomy of victimology - or how to misuse science for an ideological end
QandO —
... . But of course using "science" to advance their political agenda has been a tool of the left for years. A perfect example can be found with the issue of obesity. Andrew Ferguson provides the anatomy of how a personal failing becomes a disease and those who don’t have the self-discipline to resist over-eating become "victims" - all with the aid of "science". ...
Fat is the New Black
Overlawyered —
... on the ground that they are denied a fair shot in student elections? And how, exactly, will the city determine that someone was denied housing on the basis of height or weight? While one assumes that signs reading “Fat people need not apply” are being removed from apartments all over Binghamton, apart from that what does this accomplish, other than making the Binghamton City Council feel good? Gannett: “Council Passes Rights Law”, Weekly Standard: “The Politics of Fat”, thanks to dispatches from TJICistan for ...
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A Big, Fat Failure
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Iraq vets are fat
mudvillegazette.com 2/12/2009 — I linked to this story the other day now James Taranto takes issue with it. Not with me, the story I linked.
He picks apart this article with facts and ends up with more questions than answers
and now it seems the U.S. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center got back to him with a ...
This is why you're fat.
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