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It took almost 20 years for the FDA to stop overregulating frozen cherry pies Original

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Deregulation The market offers many alternatives to bad desserts. We don’t need the FDA to step in. | (Msphotographic | Dreamstime.com) Frozen cherry pie manufacturers have finally been liberated from one of the most unnecessary Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. And it only took nearly 20 years of lobbying! On March 14 ("Pi Day," of course), the FDA announced that "standards of identity and quality" for frozen cherry pies that were implemented in 1971 were revoked as of April 15.
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The Spy in Your Pocket

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By Scott Shackford Verified
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Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau, Crown, 400 pages, $32 A cop pulled over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border. The officer claimed that Lopez had a broken taillight and had been speeding. A drug-sniffing dog then indicated possible contraband; police searched his truck and found fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and meth.
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Anti-Woke Classroom Rules Threaten Florida's School Choice Achievements Original

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Education School choice is supposed to prevent politicians from pushing their ideas into the classroom. | (Photo: Jess Bailey/Unsplash) Any discussion of Florida's education system is incomplete without mentioning this: Nearly 50 percent of the state's K-12 students attend a school other than the one in their neighborhood or geographically closest to them.
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