Opinion

The news poured down on us last week and on Wednesday, August 10th. You’ll need some protection from the amount of speculation coming forth on those days.

In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration received authority from Congress to regulate tobacco products. While the legislation statutorily contains some tobacco-product restrictions, it also gives the FDA regulatory powers specifically over cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco. For other tobacco products, the law requires the agency to conduct evidenced-based determinations for actions necessary to protect the public health. As a result, the FDA promulgated a 2014 rule extending its authority to e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah and pipe tobacco. The FDA now regulates the manufacturing, import, packaging, labeling, advertising, promotion, sale and distribution of essentially all tobacco products.

I’m in the shower, and I tilt my head back and look up at the nozzle to rinse my face. Suddenly water goes in my nose and up into my sinus cavities where water is not supposed to be. It is an unexpected shock, a painful one-of-a-kind physical sensation. My head reels, and, just at that moment, my mind is transported back to childhood summers at the Longacre swimming pool.

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To the Editor:

The start of Indiana’s special legislative session has caused a number of folks to ask me about the economic impact of restrictive abortion rules. The plain answer is that I don’t know, and cannot really know with the type of certainty I feel comfortable with. The nation has been under one reasonably common set of rules for half a century. Thus, we are just beginning the type of natural policy experiment an economist might use to estimate impacts.

Now that I am old enough to embody a Duke Ellington song – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” – I guess I should be grateful that government is willing to expend so much time, effort and money to aid my mobility.

Indiana followed me across the country.

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My church’s men’s group recently had a discussion about who was the boss in our homes. Many of the members had never thought about it and didn’t know how to respond. I told them I was sure I was the boss, but I wanted to check with my wife to see if she agreed with my saying that.