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Who do these obvious teabagging hobbits think they are with their so-called freedom of choice to eat an free-range carrot? [Darleen Click]

Shut’em down, shut’em down now Folks in the Big Apple are illegally eating things! The CBS affiliate in New York City today uncovered the scary, secret world of illegal, underground dinner parties. No, this is not a joke or a parody, though it will really feel like one for the first few seconds of the clip. The news casters treat this situation with the same slightly amazed and shocked tone

“You know what would be awesome? If the United States had a real nanny state.” [Darleen Click]

So starts a risible (and mercifully short) exercise in irrational “compassion” by Joel Mathis. Joel trots out the usual favorite go-to Left-lib statistics on how Americans are just so much “sicker” and “die younger than they should” and clutches his pearls so tightly you can almost hear his voice go up full octave What is that rugged individualism getting us? We’re living sicker and dying younger than we should. America

Nanny Bloomberg’s latest edict … [Darleen Click]

Add baby formula to transfat, Big Gulps and alcohol. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation. Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s

“We have evolved to need coercion.” [Darleen Click]

When science stops telling us the facts and steps into politics: The food industry has made a fortune because we retain Stone Age bodies that crave sugar but live in a Space Age world in which sugar is cheap and plentiful. Sip by sip and nibble by nibble, more of us gain weight because we can’t control normal, deeply rooted urges for a valuable, tasty and once limited resource. What