Nanny of the Month (Aug 2010): Police Chief Busts Guy Who Keeps Drunks Off the Street
Did you hear about the Oregon health inspector who shut down a seven-year-old girl's lemonade stand? How about the California mayor who put the kibosh on a three-year-old's vegetable stand? Sure they're both big-time buttinskys, but this month top honors go to the top cop who busted a guy who was...
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Nanny of the Month (Feb 2011): Would-Be Brothel Banner Sen. Harry Reid!
Last month's Nanny tackled the scourge of distracted walking, and this month's runners-up have their sights set on banning big-leaguers from dipping and toddlers from talking. But top dishonors go to the nanny from Nevada who's picking a fight with prostitutes. Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the...
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School Principal Bans Homemade Lunches! Nanny of the Month (April 2011)
This month's slate of busybodies includes the FDA whose agents embarked on a year-long sting operation to bust an Amish company for selling raw milk. And then there are the killjoys at New York's Department of Health who were poised to crack down on "dangerous" activities like wiffle ball and fre...
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Nanny of the Month for July 2010: San Fran Soda Banner Mayor Newsom
They've targeted bottled water and the selling of all kinds of pets, er, "animal companions." And now, with the soda scold who's yanking sugary beverages from vending machines, the City by the Bay pulls off the first-ever Nanny of the Month trifecta! Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for ...
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Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month For January 2010 (Get Angry, Snoop Dogg!)
Past Reason.tv Nannies of The Month have included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (anti-salt, smoking, trans fat, you name it), a New York state senator who wanted to ban fish pedicures, and a Phoenix pol who banned churches from feeding the hungry on their own property. So who is the first Nann...
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Busted for Growing Veggies! Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for September 2010
Nanny of the Month turns one-year-old this month, and it seems that public officials' obsession with minding other people's business has only intensified over the past 12 months. We've exposed meddlers who want to squash other people's right to do everything from sing karaoke, to drink raw milk, ...
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Nanny of the Month (Jan 2011) Drug Testing 11-year-olds! Fining iPod Users!
Last month Reason.tv recognized 2010's Nanny of the Year, and now it's onto a brand new year of nagging nannies. This month's slate features heartland regulators targeting drinking games and New Jersey educators drug testing 11-year-olds. But top dishonors go to the New York pol who's pushing a b...
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Nanny of the Month for June 2010: Ladies' Night Foe James Kirkpatrick!
Busybodies in Illinois are itching to bag baggy pants, and—Holy handcuffs, Batman!—in Los Angeles they're throwing the Caped Crusader behind bars! But there can be only one Nanny of the Month, and this time it's the state bureaucrat who's thumbing his nose at the great Kool & the Gang anthem by c...
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Happy Meals Banned! Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for October 2010
Last month the food police sued a North Carolina man for growing fresh vegetables, and this month San Francisco's food cops have committed a different kind of atrocity by making the City by the Bay the first major metropolis to ban toys in happy meals. This month's top busybody is the pol who spo...
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What Happened to the Antiwar Movement?
Even as President Obama maintains close to 50000 troops in Iraq and continues to escalate and expand the war in Afghanistan, the antiwar movement in America continues to shrink. So, what happened? Reason.tv visited two antiwar protests—one left-leaning, one libertarian—in an attempt to answer tha...
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North Carolina Bans Rare Burgers! Nanny of the Month (May 2011)
May's biggest busybodies are taking it to poker players and teen tanners, but the nation's top nag has lovers of pink-in-the-middle burgers seeing red. In a stunning blow to all that is juicy and delicious, the Tar Heel state actually prohibits restaurants from serving rare or medium-rare hamburg...
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Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for March 2010: Salt-Banner NY State Rep. Felix Ortiz
Last month Reason.tv highlighted the heartland pol who is waging a very real war on fake pot, but who will be this month's top nanny? There are the New Jersey cops who wouldn't tolerate a naked snowwoman and Pennsylvania state troopers' armed crackdown on unlicensed beer. But the Nanny of the Mon...
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EU Bans Free-Range Kids! Nanny of the Month October 2011!
Turns out minding other people's business is a worldwide affliction, and in this very special edition of Nanny of the Month, we explore nannyism across the pond. Fat taxes are all the rage in Europe. After the skinny Danes slapped a tax on foods high in saturated fats, other European pols—includi...
Nanny of the Month (March 2011): Drug Warrior-in-Chief Barack Obama!
Last month, Reason.tv recognized Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) as our nation's most irritating scold after he busted out a sneak attack on the the world's oldest profession. This time top dishonors go to the Drug Warrior-in-Chief Barack Obama, whose DEA banned fake pot, thwarted a scientist's decade-lon...
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LA Forces Condoms onto Porn Actors! (Nanny of the Month, Jan 2012)
This month's killjoys are bent on making the Big Apple dry (or not?), and banning electronic (aka "fake") cigarettes from public places (wait, isn't the anti-smoking movement supposed to help addicts kick the habit?). But the new year's top slot goes to the City of Angels mayor who's cracking dow...
What You Can't Say on Campus: Greg Lukianoff on Free Expression in Higher Education
If you think that, like the Macarena, campus speech codes were mocked into obscurity during the 1990s, think again. Approximately 71 percent of American campuses still impose highly restrictive "red light speech codes" on college students, notes Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Ind...
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