Tag: nanny state
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July 30, 2006 07:59 PM EDT --
Hara Estroff Manaro:
Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. "Kids need to feel badly sometimes," says child psychologist David Elkind, . . .
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June 13, 2006 12:28 AM EDT --
Sigh...
Doctors will this week declare war on America's soft drinks industry by calling for a 'fat tax' to combat the nation's obesity epidemic.
Delegates at the powerful American Medical . . .
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June 07, 2006 11:15 AM EDT --
Good grief...
The Second Amendment Foundation is calling upon U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to investigate New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley over his announcement last week that . . .
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July 18, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
Well, not your french fries exactly, but rather trans fats which are present in a lot of fried and deep-fat-fried foods:
Edward M. Burke, who has served on the Chicago City Council since 1969, when cooking . . .
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July 19, 2006 11:32 PM EDT --
Excellent...
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a Maryland law that would have required Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to spend more on employee health care, arguing the retail giant "faces . . .
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July 22, 2006 02:30 AM EDT --
And not potato chips either but computer chips. To control their thoughts and stuff.
WASHINGTON - Madison Ave. ad execs are so bent on taking control of America's children, they'd put computer . . .
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October 12, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
The Denver Public Schols is now sending home obesity notices. This is outrageous it is not the job of our schools to run everything in America. Parents can take the appropriate care of their . . .
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July 19, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
No french fries for the rich! Er...rich restaurant owners anyway.
Chicago's most powerful alderman on Tuesday narrowed his war against artery-blocking cooking oils to a single front: fast-food giants . . .
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November 27, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
In what is almost impossible to believe a parent who spanks their child in Massachusetts would be quality of abuse and neglect. That could be true if the legislature has their way. WCBV reports . . .
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December 04, 2007 12:26 AM EST --
That sound you are hearing could very well be the founders rolling over in their graves. Congress has decided in all their wisdom to implement new MPG requirements for automakers. Who crazy are the new . . .
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October 11, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
California has now passed a law that makes it illegal to smoke in cars when anyone under 18 is present in the car. This is the nanny state gone too far. America used to be about freedom . . .
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May 25, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
Imagine that...
ST. PAUL - Burgeoning demand for ethanol is to blame for rising E85 prices and those numbers are likely to keep going up along with gas prices, Attorney General Mike Hatch said Wednesday. . . .
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October 25, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
NYC is at it again. After a federal judge shoot down their last attempt to get calorie totals on menus they want to try again. They want to make this information as prominant as the . . .
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January 20, 2006 02:00 AM EST --
Welcome to the welfare state…
WASHINGTON - States now spend more on health care for the poor than they do on elementary and secondary education, a policy group said Thursday in its annual review . . .
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February 15, 2009 07:38 PM EST --
An attorney with the Christian Law Association sees a growing threat to the rights of parents to decide how their children should be educated.
David Gibbs III says he and other Christians believe . . .
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May 11, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
I'm not kidding.
Here's the text.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006'.
SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.
(a) In General- Section . . .
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May 30, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
Interesting...
ATLANTA - You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 percent more likely . . .
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November 18, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
Position : Nanny to very large, diverse family
Availability : Immediate Opening. Job entails 24 hour workdays, 7-day weeks, 52 weeks per year. . . .
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November 30, 2005 10:56 AM EST --
What a twit…
WASHINGTON - Sexed-up, profanity-laced shows on cable and satellite TV should be for adult eyes only, and providers must do more to shield children or could find themselves facing . . .
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February 14, 2006 11:53 AM EST --
Sigh...
With firearm violence in Boston continuing to surge, police and city officials are looking for new anticrime tools, potentially including limiting ammunition sales, recording who buys ammunition, . . .
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