Nanny State

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• “ACORN makes money off the poor ”

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 442
  ACORN Dispersing Resources to SEIU, other Liberal Groups, House Probe Finds Wednesday, December 02, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, right, and ACORN member Hugh Alleyne. (AP photo)(CNSNews.com) – ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, is in the ...
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• As If You Didnt Have Enough to Worry About -- Obama Creates a New Bioethics Council

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 146
  Had you heard that President Obama established last week a new presidential bioethics council, one which will almost certainly start pressing for such radical "science" as yet more human embryo-destroying experimentation, human cloning, and the taxpayer funding of these immoral policies? Yeah; I didnt think you had. ...
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• Huckabee Should Apologize and Help Set a New Standard

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 146
  Heres what Mike Huckabee had to say on Sunday about the murderer of the four policemen in Seattle: "The senseless and savage execution of police officers in Washington State has saddened the nation, and early reports indicate that a person of interest is a repeat offender who once lived in Arkansas and was wanted ...
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• Regulation of the Day 77: Banning Toys in Happy Meals

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 616
  Roberto Zabrido, a government official in Spain, is “adamant that the Happy Meal and its ilk pose a risk .” The solution? Legislation that “would ban restaurants and food manufacturers from including toys and prizes with their products.” If Happy Meals – Happy Meals! – are Spain’s most pressing ...
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• What’s ‘need’ got to do with it?

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 656
  That’s how I answer when someone asks me why I ‘need’ something .
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• Shock: Scummy Dealings In The NJ Legislature

  
  The Coalition Of The Swilling — Authority: 142
  I know, I know, I should have made sure y’all were sitting down before posting such breaking news. I humbly apologize, Dear Readers, but when I found out the latest proposal from those enlightened Legislators that we have in Trenton, men who feel the very Wisdom of Solomon coursing through their veins, well, perhaps ...
  15 hours ago

• Did I miss a memo or something?

  
  Obnoxio The Clown — Authority: 564
  I see that the Home Office is making noises like they finally understand that central control of the Police and how they work is not a good thing. On the face of it, this is wonderful. But really, does anyone believe that they will actually chop the rules and "guidance" (and especially targets!) they have? Or is it ...
  18 hours ago

• “Teaching is Not a Crime”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 607
  “Anyone in Virginia can do yoga, and anyone can teach yoga. But, incredibly, it is illegal to teach people to teach yoga” without fulfilling extensive licensing requirements. The Institute for Justice is on the case. Tags: nanny state , small business , Virginia Related posts Nanny state, Virginia ...
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• Yoga Bearish

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 661
  The Richmond Times-Dispatch ’s outstanding columnist and blogger Bart Hinkle wrote today on Virginia’s quest to regulate yoga instructors — and on the valiant effort of the Institute for Justice to stop such officious interference. Note from this passage in Hinkle’s column the unbridled arrogance of the ...
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• Have A Very Nanny Christmas

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 135
  Britain’s nanny-state nincompoops are at it again : When is a Christmas tree not a Christmas tree? When it is a giant cone covered in what appears to be green doormats. Shoppers stared in bemusement at the mysterious object that landed in a shopping precinct in Poole, Dorset, this week. Some compared it to a ...
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• Ask Your Doctor Whether Your Political Views Are Right For You

  
  Popehat — Authority: 602
  When I was growing up, I had the world’s most kick-ass doctor. He made house calls. He could explain to a child or a parent exactly what was wrong and how medicine would help in words that both child and parent would understand and appreciate. He was always on the razor’s edge of state of the art meds and ...
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• Smart grids and liberty

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 523
  As a follow-up to my previous post , I wanted to add a few thoughts about creeping nannyism. Privacy experts are concerned that new smart grid technology, meant to give consumers greater control over their energy usage, might be used to reveal more about your life than you’d intend.  Turns out that, even if ...
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• That Fairness Doctrine Business? The Fight Aint Over Yet.

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 146
  So did you think that when Senator Jim DeMints amendment slamming the so-called Fairness Doctrine passed the Senate 87 to 11, that freedom of speech had been saved from the totalitarian grasp of Team Obama? Uh, it might not be over yet. Mark Hayman over at The American Spectator has some very unsettling news ...
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• Losing God.

  
  Conservative Scalawag — Authority: 137
  Via Right-Wing Libertarian, I found this article, where the Marietta Police - which I use to live in, is thinking,contemplating, pondering removing the phrase "So help me God" from the oath and affirmation. Now, just like RWL, I could see this in progressive-socialist cities like San Fransisco, Chicago, even Atlanta ...
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• It’s a Shame That, During the MIGHTY THRASHING Our New Orleans Saints

  
  The Coalition Of The Swilling — Authority: 142
  …were administering to St. Tom of Brady and Belichik, the TV started to spin and whirl before my eyes in the most nausea inducing manner. How odd ~ major dad was similarly affected! Wretching feverishly and trying to clear to my garbled vision, I wondered what hell spawn, what fiendish subliminal signal in the box ...
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• "Our Children Are on the Front Lines of the Global Warming Hysteria."

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 146
  The New York Posts Andrea Peyser was a bit ticked off when her daughter came home singing a global warming song she had been taught in school, a song that not only treated global warming as a done-deal doctrine but which "scolded selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming ...
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• The horrors of passive drinking

  
  Head Rambles — Authority: 129
  There is a new report out from the Health Research Board that shows that there was a 30% increase in the number of alcohol-related crimes between 2003 and 2007. In that period, there were well over 66,000 crimes attributable to alcohol. There is no breakdown of the nature of the crimes, but we must assume it ...
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• White House still listening to Van Jones ‘green’ advice

  
  PID News — Authority: 145
  You knew this was coming. It should be more widely known that Jones is a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is featured in Dan Browns The Lost Symbol. IONS is a essentially a think tank researching and developing high-tech Ouija.
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• It’s the Nanny of the Month!

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 156
   Posted in Video Tagged: Nanny State
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• Injustice Delayed

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 616
  Tomorrow, December 1 st marks the day when banks and other credit processing companies would have had to be in full compliance with Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA).  The Act, which was sneaked into the unrelated and must-pass Port Safety Act, passed in the late night hours just before ...
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