Pretty pathetic. I think the imminent economic crash will fix any recruiting shortages.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today a ban on cigarettes with flavors characterizing fruit, candy, or clove. The ban, authorized by the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is part of a national effort by the FDA to reduce smoking in America. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in America. (Read more from fda.gov)

Expect more interference in our private lives as government increasingly forces us to rely on it for our health.

IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers. (Read more from myfoxdetroit.com)

“Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Fine for ‘Fleeting Expletives’

‘The commission could reasonably conclude that the pervasiveness of foul language, and the coarsening of public entertainment in other media such as cable, justify more stringent regulation of broadcast programs so as to give conscientious parents a relatively safe haven for their children,’ Scalia wrote for the five-member conservative majority.” (Read more from washingtonpost.com)

fucking bullshit!

ABCNNBBCBS/FOX: “. . . And Lo, Government Upon A White Horse Strucketh Down the Evil and Defendeth the People.”

Safety Regulations Could Kill Handmade Toy Industry

“and so it begins… the ‘obesity’ tax Sigh,
among a bunch of other budget cuts and tax hikes, Paterson is planning on implementing a 15% tax on non-diet soda– a so-called obesity tax for NY.” (Read more from effect modification)