{"id":32464,"date":"2013-02-07T22:16:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/ignorance-is-bliss-guns-ammo-edition.html"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:16:33","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss-guns-ammo-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/ignorance-is-bliss-guns-ammo-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance is Bliss (Guns & Ammo Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you seek to prevent others — even people you think are your "enemy" — from studying an issue, it betrays a lack of confidence as to your own position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

'HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the department is "committed to re-engaging gun violence research" at CDC and NIH. But the only real way to ensure the research restarts is for Congress to drop the existing language from the annual spending bill and restore funding.<\/i><\/p>\n

A spokesman for Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston, the new chairman of the HHS spending panel, said the chairman is planning to hold hearings on the matter. "If CDC can show they can do nonbiased and nonpolitically motivated studies, that's something he'd be interested in," the spokesman said.'<\/i><\/p>\n

The problem being, of course, that "nonbiased and nonpolitically motivated" seems to mean "things that conclude what I\u00a0agree with."<\/p>\n

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When you seek to prevent others — even people you think are your "enemy" — from studying an issue, it betrays a lack of confidence as to your own position.\u00a0 'HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the department is "committed to re-engaging gun violence research" at CDC and NIH. 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