Much of politics today seems to be driven by the source of policies. If President Donald Trump or his administration is for it, Democrats are against it. Democrats have pulled 180-degree turns from past support for unilateral military operations by Democratic Presidents to opposing government shutdowns. However, one of the most intriguing has been the opposition to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has launched moves against unhealthy food additives and products. That was evident yesterday when Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) virtually declared war over his effort to press Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks over high-sugar drinks.
Dunkin’ Donuts is clearly an iconic brand, but the lack of support for Kennedy’s food policies is striking in light of the general support of Democrats for Big Gulp laws like the one in New York put forward by former mayor Michael Bloomberg (R).
For the record, I have long opposed efforts to ban unhealthy foods. While I strongly support educational campaigns by the government about such unhealthy choices, I believe that it remains an individual choice on whether to engage in unhealthy habits, from smoking to high-fat foods. I also previously wrote how I believe the Big Gulp law was unlawful. It was later struck down.
In this country and other countries, such as Great Britain, similar measures targeting unhealthy foods have been rallying points for the left.
Yet, Kennedy received pushback after announcing that “We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it.’ I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it.”
Healey responded with a taunt, “Come and take it,” sharing an image of a flag resembling the 1835 “Come and Take It” flag first used at the start of the Texas Revolution.
Kennedy is not necessarily calling for a ban. He has been pushing to improve the food-ingredient approval system by implementing reforms long called for by nutrition advocates. Much of this effort focuses on improving the Generally Recognized as Safe policy. He has been attacking an exemption allowing food companies to independently verify the safety of food additives without the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight.
Kennedy has stated that this “loophole was hijacked by the industry, and it was used to add thousands upon thousands of new ingredients into our food supply. In Europe there’s only 400 legal ingredients. This agency does not know how many ingredients there are in American food.”
That would seem precisely what many liberals once heralded. Yet, no democratic administration was ever willing to go head-to-head with these companies. Kennedy is doing what administrations like the Obama and Biden administrations failed to do.
However, he remains persona non grata on the left, viewed as a traitor as a member of a famous Democratic family who supported Trump. They would rather defend unhealthy food than a party turncoat.
Once again, I generally oppose limits on consumer choices, preferring educational campaigns and healthy guidelines. However, the latest controversy only highlights the flipping of the magnetic poles in American politics.
Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks are already subject to 2018 law requiring calorie counts and nutritional information be provided to the public . This applies to food establishments with more than 30 stores .
What is Kennedy’s beef ?
The information is already available , let the consumer decide, even a teenager can think this through .
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Not So Healthy Chemicals
Republicans are trying to have it both ways. They’re seeking to be known as the party of healthy food while continuing to do the bidding of lobbyists from big agribusinesses, ultra-processed foodmakers, and the chemical industry.
On Tuesday, Trump administration lawyers told supreme court justices that they should rule in favor of the chemicalmaker Bayer in a case that could prevent American farmers from suing the pesticide industry over claims that products cause cancer and other illnesses. On 18 February, Trump issued an executive order to boost domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has been linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and scores of other serious health conditions. And, on 6 February, in a Friday evening press release designed to avoid attention, Trump’s EPA reapproved dicamba – one of the most contentious weedkillers in American agriculture. Dicamba is used primarily on genetically engineered soybeans and cotton, and it’s notorious for drifting off target and damaging neighboring crops, gardens, orchards, and wild plants. Courts have twice thrown out dicamba approvals because of these risks.
Republicans on the House agriculture committee have chosen to include legal immunity for makers of agrochemicals – among other industry giveaways – in the next farm bill. Every Republican on the House appropriations committee voted to advance a bill that would shield pesticide companies from lawsuits and block EPA from regulating PFAS “forever chemicals” in sewage sludge. Republican-led states are advancing liability shields for toxic agrochemical makers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/democrats-rfk-jr-maha-healthy-food
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Missing Data At CDC
About a year ago, Boston University law professor Janet Freilich and her colleagues began noticing that public health data resources maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were disappearing or being significantly altered. So they decided to start tracking them.
Freilich told me that this line of research led her to examine CDC databases that were supposed to be updated weekly or monthly but had not been refreshed for months. What stood out was a clear pattern: Eighty-seven percent of the databases that were paused without explanation from May to October of last year were related to vaccination.
This poses real problems for local health departments, which must decide where to focus vaccination campaigns based on accurate, up-to-date information about who’s getting the shots (or not). Clinicians also need to understand the prevalence of vaccination in their area to assess risk. “If you don’t have information, you don’t know where the gaps are,” Freilich said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/05/cdc-federal-health-data-research/
I’ve never disagreed with you before but I have to over this point. Big pharma, big ag and big food have no moral compass to guide them. They must be monitored under criminal behavior banned.
Administration Not Concerned With Healthy Ecosystems
Scientists and other experts were preparing a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature in the United States when President Trump returned to the White House.
He canceled the report.
The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-page draft for public comment and scientific review.
Many of the preliminary findings are grim: Freshwater ecosystems across the country are in crisis, “overdrawn, polluted, fragmented and invaded.” Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, with reduced biodiversity. An estimated 34 percent of plant species and 40 percent of animal species are at risk of extinction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/climate/trump-nature-assessment.html?
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In Donald Trump’s mind, only gays are concerned with environmental issues. For that reason Trump hates renewable energies. And don’t even ask about Climate Change. It’s just not happening (despite all the evidence).
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Did Turley catch the news – first time in 100 years of American history – that the Bondi DOJ is trying to intervene in state bar associations when they investigate and discipline (federal government) lawyers, when lawyers break laws or violate legal ethics rules.
This would violate the 10th Amendment rights of states like Florida and Virginia – not to advance justice but to obstruct justice when federal government lawyers violate their state’s ethic rules for lawyers.
What could a future Democrat led DOJ do with these new Trump powers(;
It’s an interesting issue. State bar ethics complaints can be used as a form of lawfare to interfere with federal operations. Notwithstanding your somewhat overly-dramatic language (“first time in 100 years of American history” – pardon me while I faint at the very thought!), at this juncture it is just a policy proposal, in which the DOJ can request the disciplinary apparatus of a state bar to temporarily pause its investigation into ethics complaints while DOJ conducts its review of the attorney’s conduct. It is unclear whether it has enforcement powers.
Just a proposal. Why not propose public hangings or quartering as punishment?
Why would the state care if the DoJ was working to justify one of their attorneys doing the bidding of the President in an effort to eliminate oversight? The review absolutely has to be beyond the easy reach of the President to cover up the crimes of the President.
It’s not a matter of justifying the attorneys. It’s a matter of seeing whether the complaints are frivolous and just meant to impede lawful progress on critical issues. Any yahoo can file an ethics complaint against a lawyer and get an investigation launched in the state bar’s disciplinary apparatus, costing that lawyer much time and money. If the lawyer acted unetically then so be it. But if it’s frivolous and intended to gum up the works, that’s a different matter. The use of lawfare has already gone to extreme lengths against Trump and this is an easy way of expanding those efforts.
Why should state Barr associations have ANY role regarding the conduct of attorney’s in federal courts ?
That would seem to violation the constitutions supremecy clause ?
We have seen massive and mostly failed efforts by the left to weaponize state bar associations
While most attempts at poiticized discipline have failed, the effort has intimidated attorneys from taking clients or cases that might antagonize the left.
Those in power who target others without foundation should never hav government power again
John, don’t pull a George/X on us!’
Looks like you had to learn a little new stuff from your computer searches before you posted your answer about “supremecy clause”
BEcause of the 10 th amendment of that pesky document called the US Constitution
This DOJ , under Bondi and Blanche’s leadership is a disgrace.