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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Some People Just Can’t Stand The Idea Of Other People Doing What They Want
The battle over allowing guns into national parks is an interesting one, and not just the gun rights aspect but also what it tells us about the big government movement…...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Some People Think Obama’s Surgeon General Pick Is Too Fat
How ironic. The proponents of government health care, and government regulatory authority over things like fast food and tobacco to ensure that Americans live government-approved lives, think that a nomination…...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes
This post was promoted to the front page from the reader blogs. To get your own reader blog, click here. According to this article, the health care bill will authorize…...
Monday, July 13, 2009
Blue Enclave in Texas rejects Green Power
Heh. Them folks down in Austin, they’re all for the Green; until they have to pay greenbacks from their own wallets for it! Austin’s clean energy program costing more, selling…...
Monday, July 06, 2009
Is Obama Trying To Pull a Reverse Reagan?
The editorial page editor at the Washington Post had a thought provoking column today. Since the Reagan era, some conservatives have hoped to shrink government by “starving the beast.” Refuse…...
Friday, June 12, 2009
Nanny State: The City Of San Francisco Will Fine You If You Throw Away Food
Another day, another group of government bureaucrats taking it upon themselves to be your mother. SAN FRANCISCO - Trash collectors in San Francisco will soon be doing more than just…...
Monday, April 13, 2009
Shocker: New North Dakota Nanny State Bureaucracy Wants $2 Tobacco Tax, Bar Smoking Ban
When ballot Measure 3, which created a permanent anti-smoking bureaucracy in North Dakota, was being considered myself and others warned that it would be used as a perpetually-funded (by tobacco…...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Government Pay and Benefits Advantage Over Private Workers Widens
Something you expect to hear from National Review, not USA Today. The pay gap between government workers and lower-compensated private employees is growing as public employees enjoy sizable benefit growth…...
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Despite Miserable Failure In New York, Nanny Staters Still Pushing Soda Tax
Remember, folks. Being fat is the new smoking. And the we-know-what’s-best-for-you bureaucrats aren’t going to rest until you’re eating and drinking how they think you should eat and drink. WASHINGTON…...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Despite Evidence That Salt Is Good For You, Politicians Want To Regulate Your Salt Intake
Remember, folks, fat is the new smoking. Suppose you wanted to test the effects of halving the amount of salt in people’s diets. If you were an academic researcher, you’d…...
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Oblique Prohibitionism: House Votes To Put FDA In Charge Of Tobacco
It sounds like an ok move, right? I mean, who doesn’t want the products they consume to be clean and (relatively, in terms of tobacco) safe? Of course, the real…...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Great Britain Using Spy Planes, Thermal Imaging Cameras To Identify Households “Wasting” Energy
Hello Big Brother. ...snooping on the public has reached new heights with local authorities putting spy planes in the air to snoop on homeowners who are wasting too much energy.…...
ND House Comittee Dares To Question The Wisdom Seventh Graders
Don’t these idiots know that the children are our future? BISMARCK - Athough the bill that would ban smoking in cars when children younger than 16 wasn’t debated in the…...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Having Already Prepared For The Impending Recession, North Dakota Lawmakers Focus On Bottle Rockets
The banning of them, specifically. Did you know you could shoot your eye out with those things? BISMARCK - A bill that would ban the sale of small bottle rockets…...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Do We Really Want To Criminalize Bad Parenting?
During a recent appearance on Rick Jensen’s show on KHND AM1310 we talked about a bill before the North Dakota legislature that would allow parents whose children are chronically tardy…...
Nanny Statism Isn’t Just Bad Policy, It’s Bad Politics
A while back I posted on a tax on soda consumption proposed by New York Governor Patterson which was aimed at curving the consumption of soda to save people from…...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Minnesota Politicians Want To Stimulate Economy By Lowering Drinking Age
It’s not the best justification for lowering the drinking age I’ve ever heard, but add it to the pile of other good reasons. State lawmakers in Minnesota are bringing forward…...
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Cigarettes To Cost $10/Pack In New York, Government Worries About Too Few People Smoking
It’s fitting, given the ethical problems his administration is already having, that the first law Obama would sign into existence as the President of this country would be a shameful…...
Friday, February 06, 2009
Obama Considering Man Behind Tennessee’s Failed Health Care System For Secretary Of Health
Obama is considering Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee to be his replacement pick for Tom Daschle: The White House and Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee are in serious discussions about…...
With Liberals In Control Of Congress, Gun Control Is Suddenly On The Agenda Again
Here we go… In a new bill introduced the first day of present session of Congress, and with zero coverage from the MSM, H.R. 45 (Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and…...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
State Governments Looking To Legal Gambling To Bailout Their Big Spending Ways
I’m all for legalizing gambling, but not in the name of turning it into a cash cow for the proponents of big government. ATLANTA – A tell-tale sign America’s chips…...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
“Top Chefs” Want Obama To Tell Americans What To Eat
Sigh… Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama’s comfortable demeanor at the table — slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself — bodes well…...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
British Government To Send Bureaucrats Out To Tell People How To Cook
In an effort to stop food waste. I’ve heard of “too many cooks in the kitchen,” but this is ridiculous. Householders are to be visited by officials offering advice on…...
California Has A Cigarette Cop
America, meet the new prohibition: It was Friday, Jan. 9, and Kirk Buckman was working the day shift out of Belmont. “I carry a badge,” Buckman said. “It’s shiny and…...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Perhaps The New Surgeon General’s First Task Should Be To Ban Smoking In The White House
Our next President Barack Obama is a smoker, so shouldn’t he be forced to quit? After all, Barry is a much bigger celebrity than Joe Camel ever was. He’s also…...
Monday, December 22, 2008
More Speed Camera Folly
We have no rights. As a prank, students from local high schools have been taking advantage of the county’s Speed Camera Program in order to exact revenge on people who…...
Thursday, December 18, 2008
New York Times Columnist: Tax On Soda Is A “Breakthrough”
A breakthrough because the government manipulating our diets through taxation might make us healthier, says Nicholas Kristof. When the human body was evolving, almost the only things we drank were…...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Clarence Thomas: Racial Preferences Such As Affirmative Action Are Unconstitutional
And he’s right, too: WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action. Thomas, addressing leaders of historically black…...
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