Noblenanny News

Throughout the country lawmakers are proposing laws for regulating the grease your doughnuts are fried in, the calls you make from the road, what you listen to when you cross the street, even the bat your kid hits a baseball with. The ideas are offered with the best intentions. And normally these intentions are made to minimize a newly recognized danger or to encourage healthy behavior whatever may be. Lawmakers worry, for example, that text-messaging while driving can be deadly and that foods fried in trans fats promote heart disease. Critics counter that amendable French fries and Blackberries infringes on personal liberties. "Nanny Government" some critics call it, and they point to a playpen full of behavior-related bills before city councils as well as state legislatures.