Category: The Rise of the Nanny State
President Obama: The State of the Union is…Hey! Get Back in Line, You!
I admit, I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address. I rarely watch big Presidential speeches live; I get a far better sense of the speech when I wait a little bit and read the full text (and you can get that text from the peerless Andrew Malcolm here). I’m glad I read [...]
Uhhh…Greenpeace? Can We Talk About History for Just a Second?
Well, at least only one of them was clad in brown.
Stripped-Down Grannies, Curly Bulbs, and What’s Next?
Mark Steyn wrote about the same TSA stories I noted over the weekend and his conclusion, well, I couldn’t have written better.
The TSA: Keeping You Safe from Teenagers’ Purses and Little Old Ladies
Why do we allow the TSA to continue to exist? This is a serious question, folks. There isn’t a person alive who can name one terrorist the TSA has caught, not one plot the agency’s automatons have thwarted with their rigid adherence to rules built by brainless bureaucrats.
Why Does President Obama Hate Christmas? (UPDATE: Bloggers Save Christmas!)
Just when you think our President can’t descend one more inch into the unfathomably deep well of ridiculousness, he exceeds all expectations and drops a whole foot. Recently, our President promised that he would not wait for Congress to save us from our economic morass.
Why Does Our Government Hate Children and Potatoes?
Thanks to the Lonely Conservative for bringing this new attempt to expand the Nanny State to my attention. You say potato? The USDA says “starchy vegetable.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to limit how many starchy potatoes American schoolchildren eat each week as part of the federal school lunch program, beginning next year. I [...]
Our Problem is Too Much Freedom, Says the Super Smart Guy.
Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Budget and Management in the Obama administration, thinks we have entirely too much democracy. According to him, we need lots of commissions and panels that will just do things for us, without all that messy voting and debating and gridlock. In an 1814 letter to John [...]
Why Is Our Government Persecuting a Guitar Maker?
I honestly have no idea what authority the Department of Justice has to raid two different Gibson Guitar factories twice in the past two years, shut it down for at least a day, seize files and real property, and hold that property for more than a year without one word of explanation to the rightful [...]
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