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Showing posts with label nanny state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nanny state. Show all posts
Windsor Mann: We Should Ignore Michelle Obama
Why listen to an unelected busybody? Last month, Michelle Obama took an "unusual" step, The
Washington Post reported,
"by delivering White House remarks taking issue with makers of
frozen pizza and french fries." I'll say. One scours in vain the
speeches of Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt for
proclamations about ... MORESodas, Cigarettes And The Nanny State Neo-Prohibitionists
A Washington Times editorial. Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is all but forgotten, but he’s not gone, exactly. Like a New York Yankee who swings for the fences and misses on the first two pitches, His Former Honor took his Big Gulp ban to the state’s highest court Wednesday, hoping to avoid a strikeout. Two lower courts ... MORE
FDA And Big Tobacco Join Forces To Choke Out E-Cigs
Anti-smoking device in the crosshairs. Depending on what happens next, the electronic tobaccoless smokes will either rot in the land of once-hyped forgotten gadgets, or would-be smokers will instead spend late nights puffing away in a hip sweet-smelling vape lounge with a beer in one hand and a pimped-out mod in the other. ... MORETibor Machan: Laws Versus Regulation
Do politicians really know best? Many moons ago I directed a conference on government regulation, out of which the book edited by me and the late M. Bruce Johnson, Rights and Regulation (Ballinger, 1983) was created. In this book some of those who supported government regulation–and most mainstream contributors did so–maintained ... MOREFDA Can't Wait To Reduce Options For E-Cig Users
Smoke-free device is in government's crosshairs. Busybodies minding your own business. The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a ... MORE Jacob Sullum: Go To Heaven, Bloomberg
Meddling ex-mayor thinks he's on a mission from God. If Michael Bloomberg is going to heaven, as he recently
assured The New York Times, does that mean I am going
to hell? The former New York mayor and I do not agree about much,
especially when it comes to his two biggest passions: gun control
and "public health," both of which ... MOREWalter E Williams: Bizarre Arguments And Behavior
Deceivers and control freaks. Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you'd have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously. Take the accusation that Republicans and conservatives are conducting a war on women. Does that mean they're waging war on their daughters, wives, mothers and other female members of their ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Big Brother Is Watching You Eat
Your betters say it's for your own good. Just how far is the federal
government willing to go to push Americans to make subjectively
“healthy” food choices? Chillingly far, if the most recent meeting
of the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
(DGAC) is any indicator. The DGAC is
made up of fifteen academics, ... MOREA Law So Stupid Even California Legislature Recognizes It
by Thomas Lifson. Politicians try to kill their dumb law. California’s state legislature is seeking to repeal an idiotic law that took effect January 1st. It turns out that some feel-good regulatory efforts generate enough blowback that they can actually be reversed. Stacy Finz reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: State lawmakers have passed a ... MORELA City Council Bans Anti-Smoking Device In Public
by Jacob Sullum. Who says no one likes cancer? As expected, the Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to ban vaping everywhere that smoking is banned, including indoor workplaces and outdoor locations such as parks, beaches, and restaurant patios. Although one of the main rationales for the ban is that children might ... MORECal Law Forces Chefs And Bartenders To Wear Gloves
Alexis Garcia on California's latest idoicy. No plastic grocery bags, mandated plastic gloves. “This law, which seems to be really focused on the Subways and Chipotles of the market, now affects your most well-trained and experienced chefs who have mastered their craft and have never had any issue,” says Jordan Bernstein, a Los ... MORE
Six Year Old Suspended For Mini Cheddars In Lunchbox
by Harriet Arkell. Chronic healthy eating violator apprehended by authorities. A six-year-old boy who went to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch has been suspended for four days after teachers said it contravened its healthy eating policy. Riley Pearson, from Colnbrook, near Slough, was excluded from Colnbrook C of E ... MOREJacob Sullum: Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The mixology of medicine and moralism. Does your doctor nag you about your drinking? The federal government wishes he would. Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
noted with alarm that most Americans
say they have never discussed alcohol consumption with a health
professional. Physicians' ... MOREVIDEO: Dumbest New Ban Of 2014
The winner is incandescent light bulbs (the one that casts a warm glow).
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