<div style="text-align: justify;">We update the Minnesota Theatre Night story which we’ve covered extensively over several weeks. The misdemeanor case against Tom Marinaro, owner of Tank’s Bar, will not be argued in court as planned on 28 April.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Robert Ripley, proprietor of the Bullseye Saloon which presents Theatre Nights, will be going to court soon. His supporters are donating to his defense fund. Please contribute generously.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"Hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency scientists say they have been pressured by superiors to skew their findings, according to a survey released Wednesday by an advocacy group."<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" alt="" />Our third Round Table with Dr. Michael Siegel, this time focusing of the absurd propaganda that even a few seconds of exposure to passive smoking is sufficient to induce a heart attack. This kind of junk science is attacked even by this Tobacco Control advocate.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Junk science, worthless though it is to rationality, is worth its weight in gold to those whose agenda would go nowhere without the imprimatur of pseudo-facts.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The eugenics game is a bit like American baseball with all the players, and umpires, on one team. The pitcher has just lobbed a ball across the plate, and the fielders looked askance at a feeble hit, so the runner could take three bases.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In a move Neville Chamberlain would have approved, hundreds of Britons submitted a petition seeking compromise on the smoking ban, from their antismoking government. The result of reasoning with fanaticism is always the same.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"Earlier this month it was revealed that the government is using anti-terror legislation to instigate 1,000 covert surveillance operations a month. Not to keep tabs on crazed preachers or fundamentalist groups, mind: These government agents are spying on underage smokers, fly tippers [litterers], those who allow their dogs to foul parks and homeowners who improve their houses without planning approval."<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The bureaucrats running the San Francisco Bay Area air quality board are proposing a fee on businesses that release carbon dioxide into the air.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Patio heaters are being used to provide a semblance of comfort and dignity to persons who smoke. So …<br />
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