government being supposedly overprotective to its citizens
George Leef’s latest Martin Center column challenges the idea of mandatory college applications. Legislators in New Mexico are pushing a bill that would make students apply to at least one…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column targets the nanny state’s latest project. For “progressives,” the Nanny State never does enough. They always find new social problems and “unmet needs” that, in…
The Buncombe County Commissioners will be asked to give over $7 million in money (from taxpayers who can’t afford to buy their children food or shoes) to outside agencies. The…
State Sen. Trudy Wade has introduced legislation that would restructure the Greensboro City Council: Senate Bill 36 would shrink the size of the council, fundamentally change the role and powers…
Progressives like to say that we must address the “root causes” of crime. In this new Freeman article, Duke professor Michael Munger takes that advice and observes that the root…
Vicki Alger, writing for the Independent Women’s Forum, has the latest idea from the nanny-staters: $30,000 talking shopping carts. The USDA “MyCarts” would be divided into sections separating a variety…
Writing at NationalReview.com, Julie Gunlock writes about the First Lady’s belief that you and I can’t be trusted to feed children without government “help”. No, according to the First Lady, government…
Could this idea stray any further from the appropriate role of local government? The idea of banning what a town council deems to be talk that’s too loud is absolutely…
If you think it makes sense for the money-losing Postal Service to destroy a run of stamps because they depict children doing fun things WITHOUT PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Reason has…
Karen Kwiatkowski has a superb piece here, arguing inter alia that we should learn that much of what the feds do is needless and that the politicians and apparatchiks despise…
To check to make sure that you aren’t putting recyclables in your grey, regular big roll-out garbage can. And, of course, to fine you if you do. The UPoR provides…
When you should and shouldn’t use your cell phone — add it to the very long list of things the nanny-staters think they’re more capable of deciding than you are.…