Category: The Nanny State

Fed officials have “to move to show their willingness to both avert risk of recession and stabilize the financial crisis,” said Diane Swonk of Mesirow Financial. She said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s emphasis on consensus has proved to be the …

Farmers must not own mirrors. If they do, how could they possibly stand to look at themselves in one? These are the fattest cats ever to be on a steady feed of government dole, taking shamelessness to a new low. …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to impose new regulations on the cable industry is running afoul of some fellow Republicans, who are questioning his focus on reining in cable companies. Today, 24 House Republicans plan to deliver a …

How many Americans have given thought to the powerful undertow of the nanny-state? How many Americans are aware of the astounding prosperity achieved by America before FDR, when free enterprise reined, when government took 2% of the national income, compared …

WASHINGTON — Democrats took control of Congress this year with a pledge to be more fiscally responsible than their Republican counterparts. Trying to fulfill that promise, however, has caused strains among lawmakers, forced cutbacks in big policy goals and snagged …

In the October 2006 issue of The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk exposes a disturbing development. In her eye-opening article “Criminal Law Comes Home,” Suk examines a practice in Manhattan that has become routine in criminal …

The Bush administration, looking for compromise on an issue causing heartburn for many Republicans, shifted its position on a major area of disagreement with Congress over a children’s health-insurance bill. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the …

Sen. John McCain will unveil a health-care plan today, but unlike his rivals he will focus on controlling costs, rather than reducing the ranks of the uninsured. While the debate among the presidential candidates so far has focused on …

The history of Christianity has been replete with examples of various theological disagreements and contrary schools of thought, even within the pale of orthodoxy. Modern times have provided us no relieve from this syndrome, which speaks to the inherent …

An interesting story has come across the Associated Press wire-one that should give every taxpayer in America pause.
President George W. Bush noted that the $22 billion difference between the spending proposed by the White House and by Congressional Democrats is …

In Sidney, Montana the owner of the local McDonald’s fast food joint cannot get workers to staff his restaurant. This sounds like a bad thing, and for owner John Francis, it is, but, this loss of workers is because of …

Why do we need compulsory-attendance laws? Why compel parents to send their children to public schools? Wouldn’t parents naturally educate their children without compulsion? Human nature and history prove this to be the case. All over the world, parents push …

Collectivism in the Federal government since the 1930s New Deal is paralleled by the emergence in financial markets of giant, multi-national financial institutions. Both reflect the detached, numbers only, view of socialistic regulators who deal in large abstractions called “the …

Fear not the sacred Saints of Tofu and devotes of Darwin are on their way. Has anyone found them selves hip deep in french fries covered with catsup, or swimming in a vat of diet soda? Fear-not the grass …

The idea of forcing someone to pay his “fair share” of taxes through progressive income taxes applies only to a society of cannibals. It applies to a society where the majority has the right to devour those people who earn …