Tag: nanny state
member name: Rob Port
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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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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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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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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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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 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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December 11, 2005 10:10 PM EST --
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans controlling the federal government practice Social Darwinism, a discredited philosophy that in economics and politics calls for survival of the fittest, according . . .
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May 25, 2006 12:49 PM EDT --
Recently I had occasion to ride in a taxi cab in Fargo, ND. The ride was a relatively long one thanks to traffic, and during it the cab driver struck up a conversation with me as those in his profession . . .
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