The Nanny State

• Reason.tv: Michigan Bar Owners Ban Lawmakers for Banning Smoking! (Nanny of the Month, Aug 2011), Ted Balaker, September 1, 2011
• The Nanny State's "Bill of Rights", Matt Welch, August 31, 2011
• Reason.tv: Why is the Government Driving Folks Off Their Land?, Zach Weissmueller & Tim Cavanaugh, August 24, 2011
• City to Homeowner: Don't Remove Your Chain Link Fence, or Else, Matt Welch, August 8, 2011
• Double-Shot of Matt Welch on Russia Today, Talking Raw Milk, Children's Politics, and teh Gay, August 5, 2011
• Reason.tv: Plant a Garden, Go to Jail for 93-Days?! Nanny of the Month (July 2011), Ted Balaker, August 1, 2011
• Does Your Body Belong to You?, A. Barton Hinkle, July 29, 2011
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Food Trucks, Matt Welch, July 28, 2011
• Dispatches From the Food Truck Wars, Matt Welch, July 25, 2011
• Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and 'Inspiring', Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Debt Ceiling Politics Last Week, Food Trucks Today, July 22, 2011
• Foo Thik Not Like This New Thing Call a 'Wheel', Jacob Sullum, July 21, 2011
• Utah's Liquor Laws: Still Crazy, but Less So (I Think), Jacob Sullum, July 21, 2011
• It's Not That We're Against Food Trucks, it's That They're "technically illegal", Matt Welch, July 21, 2011
• As the World Gets Scarcer, Light Bulbs Must Become Dearer, Jacob Sullum, July 18, 2011
• Lemonade-Stand Crackdown Continues: Cops Make Girls Cry From Georgia to Wisconsin, Matt Welch, July 18, 2011
• Because Consumers Balk at Spending 10 Times As Much for a Light Bulb, They Must Be Forced, Jacob Sullum, July 11, 2011
• Plant a Vegetable Garden in Your Front Yard, Face 93 Days in Jail, Matt Welch, July 8, 2011
• Study: Menu Labeling Doesn't Impact Food Choices, Baylen Linnekin, July 1, 2011
• Reason.tv: The War on Lemonade Stands! Nanny of the Month (June 2011), Ted Balaker, July 1, 2011
• Frustrated States Banning Local Food Bans, Baylen Linnekin, July 1, 2011
• Dutch May Outlaw Kosher and Halal Meat, Baylen Linnekin, June 30, 2011
• Nanny State Propaganda, A. Barton Hinkle, June 29, 2011
• Stop Cutting the Cheese, NY Tells Farmers' Markets, Baylen Linnekin, June 27, 2011
• Baylen Linnekin, Executive Director of Keep Food Legal, Will be Guest-Blogging This Week at Hit & Run, Nick Gillespie, June 27, 2011
• Big Government Gets Ugly, Steve Chapman, June 27, 2011
• No Cigars in Cigar City, Jacob Sullum, June 24, 2011
• River-Swimming Without Life Vest Now Illegal Near Seattle, Matt Welch, June 22, 2011
• Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You, Jacob Sullum, June 21, 2011
• Brooklyn Gals Ticketed for Eating Doughnuts at a Playground, Matt Welch, June 7, 2011
• Uncle Sam's Cool New Way of Nagging You to Eat Your Vegetables, Jacob Sullum, June 6, 2011
• Don't You Go Wearing Your Muslim Hats, St. Louis Cabbies!, Matt Welch, June 6, 2011
• Three Arrested for Attempting to Feed the Homeless in Orlando; Face Up to 60 Days in Jail, Matt Welch, June 3, 2011
• Volunteer Tree-Trimmer Fined $275, Told to Leave Minneapolis, After Helping Tornado Victims Outside His Assigned Area, Matt Welch, June 3, 2011
• Pennsylvania's State Liquor Monopoly Continues to Make the Case for Privatization, Jacob Sullum, June 3, 2011
• I Have No Patience for the Lactose Intolerant!, Nick Gillespie, June 2, 2011
• Muddying the Hookah Water, Jacob Sullum, June 1, 2011
• Online Poker and Steven Levitt's Daughter, Jacob Sullum, June 1, 2011
• Reason.tv: North Carolina Bans Rare Burgers! Nanny of the Month (May 2011), Ted Balaker, May 31, 2011
• The Dream of the '90s 1984 Is Alive in Portland!, Matt Welch, May 31, 2011
• Easy Work Joins Delicious Food As a Public Health Menace, Jacob Sullum, May 27, 2011
• Moralizing Against McDonald's, Steve Chapman, May 23, 2011
• Obama's War on Fun, Gene Healy, May 17, 2011
• Do Menthol Cigarettes Taste Too Good to Be Legal?, Jacob Sullum, May 9, 2011
• Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Smoking Bans on Public Property, Jacob Sullum, May 6, 2011
• Eat Your Veggies, A. Barton Hinkle, May 6, 2011
• Could Eating Less Salt Be Deadly?, Jacob Sullum, May 5, 2011
• E-Cigarettes Will Remain Legal but Unregulated Until the FDA Issues New Rules, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2011
• Reason.tv: School Principal Bans Homemade Lunches! Nanny of the Month (April 2011), May 2, 2011
• How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?, Jacob Sullum, April 29, 2011
• Wanted: Objective Scientific Studies of Ways to Constrain the Anti-Social Behavior of Evil, Food-Foisting Corporations, Jacob Sullum, April 28, 2011
• FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes As Tobacco Products, Jacob Sullum, April 27, 2011
• Food Truck Free for All!, Baylen Linnekin, April 25, 2011
• Poker Bars, Jacob Sullum, April 20, 2011
• Wiffle Ball Declared "Risky" by the State of New York, Matt Welch, April 19, 2011
• Commit Yourself, Daniel Akst, May 2011
• If You Like Eating What You Want, Check Out "Keep Food Legal", Nick Gillespie, April 15, 2011
• "Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home", Matt Welch, April 12, 2011
• Eat As I Say, Not As I Eat, Jacob Sullum, April 8, 2011
• Wet and Wild Teens, Jacob Sullum, April 8, 2011
• Can't Shake the Shake Shakes, Jacob Sullum, April 6, 2011
• Nudgers vs. Nannies, Brendan O'Neill, April 2011
• "I do not want to arrest you or your wife", Matt Welch, March 29, 2011
• More Co-Conspirators in the Light Cigarette 'Fraud', Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2011
• Reason.tv - Nanny of the Month (Feb 2011): Would-Be Brothel Banner Sen. Harry Reid!, March 1, 2011
• What About 'Corrective Statements' for the Government?, Jacob Sullum, February 28, 2011
• Wait, Smoking Is Dangerous?, Jacob Sullum, March 2011
• Loco Over Four Loko, Jacob Sullum, March 2011
• It Turns Out Nonalcoholic Energy Drinks Are Also an Intolerable Threat to the Youth of America, Jacob Sullum, February 14, 2011
• Reason.tv: Nanny of the Month (Jan 2011) Drug Testing 11-year-olds! Fining iPod Users!, February 1, 2011