Articles Written by:    GREGORY CONKO     

« Previous  |  Next »

Will Americans (Literally) Be Dying For ObamaCare?

Remember Harry and Louise, the made-for-television couple whose advertisements helped scuttle the Clinton health care plan 16 years ago? President Barack Obama does. Every time he talks about health care reform, the president dodges the type of ...

From GREGORY CONKO AND HENRY I. MILLER, Forbes,  12 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Bill Clinton,  White House,  Rahm Emanuel

FDA's Bad Medicine

President Barack Obama promised to shake up the Food and Drug Administration, so it's no surprise that his new FDA leadership team has made bold moves. Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, who led the agency until Commissioner Margaret Hamburg ...

From GREGORY CONKO, American Spectator,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  Henry Waxman,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Google Inc.

Needle and the Damage Done

Gregory Conko is a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court handed down its decision this month in the case of Wyeth v. Levine, ruling that federal law did not bar plaintiff ...

From GREGORY CONKO, Reason,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  John Paul Stevens,  Competitive Enterprise Institute,  U.S. Congress,  Samuel Alito

Risky Business

Senator Ted Kennedy returned to the Capitol recently following successful surgery to remove a tumor from his brain. Soon, he'll begin radiation and chemotherapy treatments to help make sure the tumor doesn't return. We wish the Senator well, and hope ...

From GREGORY CONKO, American Spectator,  30 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  Edward M. Kennedy,  U.S. Congress,  University of Chicago,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Where's the Beef?

It's not often that American food companies join hands with environmental and consumer activists to call for greater government control over the nation's food supply. But that's just what happened last week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

From GREGORY CONKO, American Spectator,  24 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  European Union,  Tyson Foods, Inc.

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close