<p align="justify">As previously posted, President Bush has vetoed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill that would levy 61 cents additional tax per pack of cigarettes. Columnist Norman Kjono walks us through some interesting features about the bill as vetoed.</p>
<p align="justify">Vetoing SCHIP is good. Vetoing SCHIP is right. In fact, it’s the only moral thing to have done. Acting any differently would reinforce nauseating precedent: in the name of the children (and, in the future, for any old "good cause") it is fair and just to target a minority of the population with a super-tax to provide for the needs of those who don’t pay it — the non-smokers, or better yet, their children.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><img hspace="4" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />‘Free care for all without prejudice’: another socialist dream that failed. That is how the British National Health System was dreamily touted but what do we see? A financially, practically, and ethically inept system which uses epidemiological trash science to place the blame for its inadequacy on those who pay for it, its mistreated patients. Once again medicine becomes a tool for power and social blackmail.</span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><img height="40" alt="Audio file with visual illustrations" hspace="4" width="39" align="left" src="/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" /></span><span style="font-size: 8pt">We are proud to commence our round table discussions by presenting the first of a what we plan as a long series of multimedia debates on various topics that may be of interest to all those who are public health targets or wish for a society that is "public health-free."</span></p>
<p><span><span style="font-size: 8pt">From our forum we publish this multi-part, exceptional posting from Mr. Winston Smith. </span></span></p>
<p align="justify">In a debate recently held in New Hampshire, all the major Democratic candidates for president came out in favour of a national smoking ban that completely obliterates the rights of 60 million American smokers who, as we know, have no rights at all because they are second-class citizens.</p>
<p align="justify">Two Stalinists got together in London to promote the brave new world of saturation surveillance. They say that people just love the grid of cameras recording every one of their day-to-day-activities.</p>
<p align="justify">No talking. No eating. Not even a glass of water. No music either. Act like a crash dummy, you must be a dummy in your car, your part has been assigned. This is the latest official "health and safety" advisory from the United Kingdom.</p>
<p align="justify">Marriott share values plunge as profits decline. Future earnings are forecast to remain below Wall Street expectations. </p>
<p align="justify">It’s said that he who attends a lame person learns how to hobble along. In other words, sharing experience with another or others may influence one’s own perceptions and behaviour: for example, if one spends most of his time with softheaded folks, after a few years he’ll have a good chance of becoming a cuckoo himself. </p>