nanny state

Chocolate Milk and the Nanny State

Don't look now, but the unelected bureaucrats are coming for your kids' lunch money.

Making Lemons Out of a Lemonade Stand

Somebody called the cops on some kids in Colorado for selling lemonade without a license.

Michael Bloomberg's Megalomania

"I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in."

Time to Say Goodbye to Michelle Obama's School Lunches

Kids will eat if the food's good.

Hillary's Childcare Proposal Will Only Harm Kids

Clinton said she'd expand the childcare programs Obama started.

New York City Mulls Visitor Safe Spaces

There's a new villain to contend with. Its name is the Nanny State.

Rhode Island to Require Helicopter Parenting?

The health of society rests on education, which begins with parents.

Obama's Diaper Debacle

His newest executive action smells.

For Now, Green Lobby Is Dead Meat in Dietary Debate

You still have the government's blessing to consume meat.

Food Fads: Make Mine Gluten-Full

When the federal government's 1980 "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" warned about the baleful effects of saturated fats, public interest activists joined the fight and managed to persuade major food companies to switch to the shiny new alternative: trans fats. Thirty-five years later, the Food and Drug Administration finally determined that trans fats are not just useless but unsafe, and ordered them removed from all foods. Oops.

Feds Spending Another $128 Million on Tobacco War

As if there aren't more pressing matters.

Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move' May Encourage Weight Gain

Nanny state, meet human nature.

For Being 30 Feet Away From Children, Texas Woman Arrested

Maryland 'Free-Range' Parents Vindicated

Helicopter Parents? Helicopter Government Is More Like It

Police pick up kids for the "crime" of walking home unsupervised.

NIH Allocates $240K for Vending Machine Study

Kids Fatter After Two Years of 'Let's Move'

'Cradle to College and Career' Government Help

Taxpayer Money for Puppets to Tell Kids to Eat Veggies

Talking Shopping Carts

USDA thinking of new controls.