Last week, a small shop in St. Paul received a visit from a banning bureaucrat after some nervous nellie saw the candy cigarettes being sold in the store and proceeded to contact the authorities. A city inspector showed up and ordered the items to be removed from the retail floor, and the shop owner was [...]

Here is a wonderful podcast with America’s most rational Mom, Lenore Skenazy, the proprietor of the blog Free-Range Kids. Lenore explains what it means to be a free-range parent as opposed to being a parent who is trapped within the confines of the “fear everything” society. Lenore focuses on the safety obsession around kids and [...]

Can you imagine the modern FDA and its reaction to this ad for Schlitz beer in 1936? As the summer sun head south; as days grow shorter and stormier – we get less and less of sunshine’s benefits. Likewise, our ordinary foods are lacking in Sunshine Vitamin D, so essential to robust vitality. Schlitz breweries [...]

Doing cartwheels and handstands has been banned at a Syndey, Australia primary school … unless the child is “supervised by a trained gymnastics supervisor.” A snippet from the article says, “A department spokesman said the ban was to prevent, and not in response to, playground injuries.”

Recently, I was riding my Harley back home after a Friday jaunt, and I passed by a concert on the river in the town where I live. A Rod Stewart tribute band was playing, so I parked my bike and walked to the concert site, and I sat on the steep hillside with the rest [...]

This is my article appearing on LewRockwell.com for April 21, 2012. ——————————————– I despise the Safety Nazis and the culture of fear they have created. Wear a helmet. Don’t go out when it’s too hot. Don’t leave your home when it’s too cold, and if you do, heed the 1,001 warnings. Be afraid at all [...]

Comedian Steve Hughes, an Australian, on American and Brit Safety Nazis, and the culture of victimology. Thanks to Nikoley for the tip.

There was a time when we thought that one could be safe while shopping at Safeway. Americans, in their ceaseless search of “safety,” thanks to government propaganda and policy, and safety nazi fear mongering from the media and the masses, have come up with yet another way to spend money they don’t have on safety they [...]

This article in the New York Times addresses a very simple question with the truth. The Federal Aviation Administration has its reasons for preventing passengers from reading from their Kindles and iPads during takeoff and landing. But they just don’t add up. …When EMT Labs put an Amazon Kindle through a number of tests, the company consistently [...]

An article from the Billings Gazette reads: The upstart entrepreneur had enlisted the help of more than 30 volunteers, including his extended family, to help make and deliver free meals to shut-ins on Christmas Day. His grandma made 11 types of cookies, Albertsons donated turkey, and Meadow Gold donated 75 cartons of milk. Cody Walter [...]