Greg Critser
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 By this I mean the kind of regulation that even conservatives once acknowledged was not only acceptable, but also healthy (before, that is, conservatives like Lew Engman were replaced by conservatives like Gerry Mossinghoff and Alan Holmer). First and foremost, we must return the FDA to its roots. Its job, mandated by law, is to regulate an industry, not to be some skanky "proactive partner" with that industry. And to do that, we must first end — or at least deeply modify — the agency's client-type relationship with pharmaceutical companies.
To do that, we must take a few hard initial steps. |
David Steinman
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 Linking ecology with patriotism and winning the war on terror should be of strong interest to Republicans and other conservatives and traditionalists, in addition to already environmentally sensitized liberals.
Indeed, I think it's very possible that a whole host of neo-conservatives will begin to look favorably upon environmen-talism—as described in this book—as a means of winning the war on terror. Half the Republican Party is strongly proenvi-ronment, and so are most Democrats, even if a lot of them are really only once-over light. |
Greg Critser
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| By this I mean the kind of regulation that even conservatives once acknowledged was not only acceptable, but also healthy (before, that is, conservatives like Lew Engman were replaced by conservatives like Gerry Mossinghoff and Alan Holmer). First and foremost, we must return the FDA to its roots. Its job, mandated by law, is to regulate an industry, not to be some skanky "proactive partner" with that industry. And to do that, we must first end — or at least deeply modify — the agency's client-type relationship with pharmaceutical companies.
To do that, we must take a few hard initial steps. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Maybe, as conservatives maintain, it would increase with the loss of deterrent punishment? Maybe the rate would remain unchanged, arguably because there is little connection between state and individual action. Each of these possibilities could be considered with theoretical and analytical care, with special consideration given to comparative-historical designs.
What if cigarette sale and consumption were made illegal? Rates of cancer, particularly of the lung, and heart disease would surely decrease; the rate of crime and the size of the criminal population would just as surely increase. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Despite continuing pressure from 'alternative' medicine, and from conservatives within orthodox medicine itself, by the end of the nineteenth century, the new 'scientific' medicine was perceived by a growing number of doctors and patients alike as both authoritative and powerful.
The twentieth century saw what might be called the industrialization of medicine. It was marked by rapid increases in the complexity of medical organization and technologies, and in the number of specializations—already burgeoning by the end of the nineteenth century. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Backed largely by political conservatives and free marketeers, consumer-driven health care is aimed at improving quality and bringing down health care costs by putting more decisions in the hands of patients. In consumer-driven plans, insurers offer lower health insurance premiums in return for high deductibles, on the order of four thousand dollars a year. The idea here is that if patients have more "skin in the game," or more of a financial stake in their care, they will pay more attention to cost and quality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why thinking people from all political persuasions (liberals, conservatives, libertarians, etc.) are getting behind Ron Paul. Sure, Dennis Kucinich (www.Dennis4President.com) probably better represents the views of many NewsTarget readers, and Kucinich no doubt represents the best choice among Democratic candidates, but it's pretty clear at this point that Kucinich is not going to beat Clinton or Obama (www.barackobama.com) for the nomination. Ron Paul, on the other hand, actually has a realistic shot at winning some Republican primaries. |
David Steinman
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| For fiscal conservatives and libertarians, some experts say a green tax on polluting businesses can ultimately replace an income tax and end up saving us all in taxes.
Such a tax could stimulate a move to produce eventually zero toxic waste and totally carbon neutral effects.
Reports from Europe, where a green tax is growing in popular appeal, show that such taxes seem to accomplish their goals and are actually good for society.
In Ireland, a green tax was recendy introduced on supermarket bags and has already cut the country's use of nonrecyclable bags by more than a billion and earned 3. |
Melody Petersen
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 His book Blue Genes was published in 2005 with help from Focus on the Family, a national group popular with many Christian conservatives in Iowa and across the country. The book was a kind of spiritual guide for those dealing with depression or anxiety. It described the new psychiatric medicines as offering "opportunities for healing that truly reflect God's care and love." In one of the book's stories, Dr. Meier compared taking a quick-dissolving wafer of Klonopin, a prescription tranquilizer, with taking Holy Communion. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 They themselves have literally choked off the free enterprise system they so loudly defend: they detest competition, yet are wrongly defended by conservatives who rightly extol the virtues of free enterprise.
As for environmentalists, the leaders (though not their followers) have a secret agenda that they rarely make public. They want to see a socialist world, one controlled by bureaucrats and politicians—their bureaucrats and politicians. Instead of a free market, a giant collec-tivist machine controlling all that we do would be forced on us. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 This volte face split Peel's party into two: Peelites, such as Gladstone, followed theit leadet and wete known as liberal conservatives, while Disraeli seized his political opportunity and brought stinging tebukes upon his former leader's head.
35. In the eighteenth century no one pretended that moral and political questions wete inevitably connected. Some wete, some weten't; othets wete mattets of convenience ot amenity. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Further, I find it ironic that conservatives have chosen to support and defend international corporations when the vast majority of these corporations financially support our nation's political and military enemies.
Von Mises first pointed out that corporations use the power of government to prevent competition. Let's face it, corporations are responsible for most of the regulations in which our society is drowning. |
Greg Critser
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| Among conservatives, Troy was a new star, unintimidated by prevailing D.C. sentiment and willing to take on powerful institutions of government that inhibited free enterprise and impinged on commercial — and by extension private — liberties. He was, by almost every measure, a true believer, channeling the Founding Fathers in brilliant ways that would, he hoped, make everyone else one as well.
Troy's most important assignment, at least as far as Kamp and his Madison Avenue clients were concerned, was clear. |
| Brief, but enduring: the Gingrichian conservatives left Holmer with one lasting earful — PhRMA and its members would have to change their old practice of giving money to both political parties if it were to count on the GOP's aid in the future. It was a message that party hacks and hon-chos alike would hammer home to pharma executives again and again. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| It is also unfortunate that conservative politicians and pundits have been led to believe it is their mission in life as philosophical champions of capitalism to defend the corporate world, even international corporate conglomerates run by those who eschew the very foundations of conservatism. conservatives will cry that I must be a liberal or environmentalist fanatic. In fact, I am a conservative and have been all my life.
Capitalism is very different from the opportunistic system modern corporations have invented for themselves. |
| REPPED: The environmental left would have us believe the world is a swirling mass of pollution, and that the earth's problems are all the result of capitalism, while American conservatives would have us believe that DDT is so safe you can drink it without harm. So what is the truth? Unfortunately, the truth has become a victim of political haggling. |
Marcia Angell, M.D.
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 Industry apologists and antiregulatory conservatives still beat up on the FDA publicly (check The Wall Street Journal's editorials on the subject), but that is mainly just an ideological gesture. In fact, the FDA has become extremely accommodating to the industry, as evidenced by the former commissioner's speech (discussed in Chapter 11) urging other countries to allow drug prices to rise. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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 On one side were what I call the old-line nutritional "academic conservatives" who doggedly insist that "the great American diet" provides everything anyone could possibly need in the way of nutrition. And on the other side were what I call the nutritional "true believers," those who proclaim every new supplement to be a "miracle cure" for one dire ill or another and sometimes for just about every ailment known.
The trouble with the nutritional conservatives is that they are sadly out-of-date, badly out-of-tune with new research findings. |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
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 Although the Carter administration rejected Enthoven's proposal, his ideas were embraced by conservatives who saw in them a way to apply their own free-market, antigovernment theories to health care reform. After Reagan won the 1980 election, the stage was set to implement these ideas in the marketplace.
The nudge from Washington was all Wall Street needed to ignite an explosion of activity to convert nonprofit HMOs into investor-owned corporations. "Word of phenomenal growth and hefty profits has forecasters abuzz," gushed an article in National Journal. |
| The Reagan revolution had swept into power conservatives who were determined to alter health care drastically by reducing government funding and by introducing competition to give consumers and companies more choices in selecting providers. The goal, as Congressional Quarterly put it, was "to unleash 'free market forces' to attack the persistent problems of the cost and accessibility of health care."
One of the administration's first moves was to cut off federal funding for the burgeoning nonprofit HMO movement. |
Michael Lerner
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 Other conservatives sympathize with their standpoint, which is essentially a free-market position. The far-right conservatives have found that some of their closest allies in the fight for "freedom of choice in cancer therapy" are New Age cultural left-wing radicals, who equally abhor the restrictive powers of organized medicine. What is fascinating is that over the years, the strength of the common cause has been so powerful that the relationship between the two groups has become much more than a temporary alliance of convenience. |
| Proponents and practitioners of unconventional cancer therapies include numerous conservatives and considerable numbers of physicians on the far right, some actually members of the John Birch Society. They regard mainstream organized medicine as a logical extension of creeping liberal socialism, and they bitterly resent the intrusion of the state on their freedom to practice medicine as they choose. Other conservatives sympathize with their standpoint, which is essentially a free-market position. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 French society was deeply divided over Dreyfus, with liberals, including Emile Zola and Georges Cle-menceau, arguing that he was innocent, and conservatives defending the French military authorities. Dislike of Jews also affected the opinions of many in France about the incident. Zola's article
"J'accuse" ("I accuse") strongly influenced the public in Dreyfus's favor. Dreyfus was eventually cleared of all charges, reinstated in the army with a promotion, and publicly honored.
Dunkirk The scene of a remarkable, though ignominious, retreat by the British army in World War ii. |
| Victoria was known for her impartiality toward the two leading political parties of Britain, the Liberals and the conservatives, which both produced extraordinary leaders during her reign (see Disraeli, Benjamin and Gladstone, William Ewart). She was also known for establishing strict standards of personal morality. (See Victorian period.) fa Queen Victoria's children and grandchildren married into many of the other royal families of Europe. Tragically, many of them passed on the disease hemophilia. Victoria carried the disease in her genes, and one of her sons died from it. |
| Anyone who stubbornly resists change; often used to describe extreme conservatives. The term diehard is also applied to those who remain loyal to a cause even after there is no hope of victory: "Even though it was clear that the governor had lost the election, a few diehards remained at the rally." direct primary An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office. district attorney (DA) An official responsible for representing the government in court cases and for prosecuting criminals. |
| Its success was based partially on the riches it acquired in the New World (see Latin America and South America), fa The destruction of the Spanish Armada, a fleet sent to conquer England in 1588, marked the beginning of the decline of Spanish power, fa In the Spanish-American War, the United States defeated Spain, freed Cuba from Spanish colonial rule, and seized a number of former Spanish colonies, including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, fa In the Spanish Civil War conservatives led by General Francisco Franco overthrew the second Spanish Republic. |
| American A term used, primarily by extreme conservatives, to attack principles or practices considered to be at odds with the values of most Americans. Many object to the use of the term on the grounds that it is vague, shortsighted, and intolerant. fa The House of Representatives maintained a Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) for several years. It was especially known for investigation of alleged communists. (See Hiss, Alger.)
Uncle Sam A figure who stands for the government of the United States and for the United States itself. |
John Lauritsen
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 Forbes Magazine of 26 June 1989 ran an article on Michael Fumento written by Joe Queenan: "Straight Talk About AIDS"/ Queenan gives a fair summary of the American Spectator article, and describes the trials and tribulations Fumento experienced for expressing his ideas, which are anathema to the "AIDS establishment" as well as to some of his fellow conservatives.
ACT UP of New York was greatly offended by Queenan's article, and voted to zap Forbes Magazine, which they did on
'Michael Fumento, "The Incredible Shrinking AIDS Epidemic", The American Spectator, May 1989. |
Michael Lerner
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| The far-right conservatives have found that some of their closest allies in the fight for "freedom of choice in cancer therapy" are New Age cultural left-wing radicals, who equally abhor the restrictive powers of organized medicine. What is fascinating is that over the years, the strength of the common cause has been so powerful that the relationship between the two groups has become much more than a temporary alliance of convenience. |
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