The feds want to police restaurant menus to ensure that diners have calorie counts in front of them before ordering.

Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute opposes this further expansion of the nanny state in this USA Today piece.

You’ve got to wonder — is there any point at which these authoritarians would say, “Nah, we have enough power; people ought to be free to make up their own minds about that”? I don’t think so. There will always be some new “problem” with health (or the environment, or education….) to justify further governmental interference.