The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News You Can Use
“Don’t Take Chances by Using the Ladder in Unsafe Ways”–headline, Chicago Sun-Times, May 13
So Much for the War on Drugs
“Missouri Voters Will Get Crack at Federal Health Care Overhaul”–headline, Columbia Daily Tribune, May 12
A Salt Weapons Ban?
Sara Burrows of the Carolina Journal, published by the Raleigh, N.C.-based John Locke Foundation, notes that “the Food and Drug Administration plans an unprecedented effort to reduce gradually Americans’ salt consumption,” and that this may hit close to home:
If the food police get their way, North Carolinians can kiss their country hams, bacon, and fresh Bright Leaf hot dogs goodbye. These Southern specialties might not disappear altogether, but, if the health agency’s crusade against salt is successful, they never would taste the same again.
All we can say is, we’ll give you our salt when you take it from our cold, dead hams.
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