Category: Freedom

Being a totalitarian ideology, nanny state liberalism aims to control every conceivable aspect of your life — right down to the sheets on your bed: When California’s elected officials come back from their month-long recess they face a mountain of proposed legislation (almost 900 bills are lined up and waiting), including a new law (SB432) […]

Under rule by progressive statists, most everything that isn’t mandatory is forbidden. Saving baby woodpeckers isn’t yet required by law, consequently… Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad’s backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat. “I’ve just always loved animals,” […]

Big Government no longer has to pass the laugh test before expanding its power, which means any bureaucracy can regulate most anything that catches its attention. For example, the FDA is now cracking down on the “drug” we know as walnuts: Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that […]

William F. Buckley famously said that he would “rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” Here’s why: [A] pair of Harvard scholars writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocate stripping away the custody […]

In the name of childhood obesity hysteria, the Obama Regime is tightening its control of what we eat: Tony the Tiger, some NASCAR drivers and cookie-selling Girl Scouts will be out of a job unless grocery manufacturers agree to reinvent a vast array of their products to satisfy the Obama administration’s food police. Either retool […]

Communism is a totalitarian system under which there is no liberty whatsoever because there is no private property. Here’s an example of how an authoritarian regime might use the absence of property rights to put the screws to disapproved activities like Christian worship: Every two to three years, Eddie Sales trims and prunes the crape […]

John and Judy Dollarhite of Nixa, Missouri used to raise rabbits for extra spending money. They should have signed up for food stamps instead. Our federal overlords do not take kindly to entrepreneurism. After harassment by the USDA reminiscent of K’s tribulations in The Trial, the Dollarhites — who took good care of the animals, […]

The low-hanging fruit is long gone when it comes to finding new aspects of our lives for bureaucrats to micromanage. In Ohio, Cuyahoga Falls City Council is tightening its fist around backyard birdfeeders. The pretext is a parody of what you would expect: Councilman Jerry James tells AkronNewsNow.com “There’s a lot of seed that comes […]