Recent Posts Tagged With 'the nanny state'

• Blindness all around

  Posted on Sunday August 24th, 2008 at 14:41 in all political posts, the nanny state

  Here in Illinois, we had a new law passed last October requiring that every child entering kindergarten have an eye exam performed by an optometrist or ophthalmologist. This is in addition to state-mandated in-school tests already performed in kinde...

• I'm going to take up snuff, just out of spite

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 13:55 in all political posts, the nanny state

  Well, it’s come: the statewide Illinois smoking ban for bars and restaurants has gone into effect. Freedom and the right to private property are nothing compared to the power of the ever-stronger health fascists. I paid a visit to my usual bar on...