The Virginia DMV has banned smiles while taking photos for your driver’s license.
Honestly, so what?
As someone who has wasted hours of my life dealing with the bureaucrats at the Virginia DMV I don’t know how anyone could smile after such an experience. Naturally, the facial recognition technology is scary, but I really don’t see how someone could [...]

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Over at StogieGuys.com, I wrote the following column about how nanny-staters chip away at our rights.
It’s the perfect example getting the camels nose under the tent. In other words, they set the precedent for taking away our rights, then, before you know it, they expand a seeming narrow violation of our freedom and use it [...]

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Big Tobacco and Big Oil… are all far smaller than Big Government. But the media doesn’t automatically add “Big” before the word Government.
(via Cafe Hayek)

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An endorsement, of sorts, from me over at stogieguys.com:
As detailed in Monday’s article on Obama and McCain, neither candidate offers a particularly impressive agenda [for cigar smokers]. When push comes to shove, we suppose McCain is marginally better on cigar issues as a whole, but not in a particularly meaningful way.
Not to mention that his record suggests [...]

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Over at StogieGuys.com we note that an extreme expansion of Michigan’s smoking ban has been defeated… at least for now.  For more on tobacco prohibition in Michigan read this Detroit Free Press op-ed by Jacob Grier. Also see the nasty hate mail the smoking nannies sent Jacob in response to his defense of personal liberty.
Lots [...]

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Take this food nannies:

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According to the results of a Rasmussen survey released today, 47% of our fellow countrymen (47%!) “believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary….” This is up from the 41% results of July 2007.
Further, 31% favor requiring internet sites to also balance their [...]

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Congress recently took another step towards total prohibition of tobacco by ordering FDA regulation of tobacco (against the wishes of the current FDA head).  Both McCain and Obama support the measure. In fact it has been one of McCain’s pet issues for over a decade.
Full details, along with my take on the effect on cigars [...]

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