“It has been called the nanny state, but that is far too kind a term.  It is too cold, too cruel, too implacable, to illiberal to be a nanny.  It is the Nurse Ratched state.  Government has created a brutal system of mandated behaviorism, in which the state uses its immense powers to force targeted citizens to ‘voluntarily’ accept a violation of their rights… The efforts to sustain affirmative action rest on these coercive methods.  So, too, do the efforts to enforce the decree that private workplaces be free of discriminatory, harassing, or even rude behavior.  The intrusions resulting from the Americans with Disabilities Act have mutated beyond sanity… Nursie knows best.”  -Michael Kelly

The Biden Administration has formally announced it supports destroying the property rights to the COVID vaccine.  This is catastrophically shortsighted and bad policy.

"Ninety percent of all Black Americans who smoke smoke menthol cigarettes."  -FDA Center for Tobacco Products head Mitch Zeller, explaining why he's banning something just because black people like it.

“Every time the government tries to make life better for you, it uses force.  It makes criminals out of people who are not criminals.  Some poor mope who would like a large-size toilet in his house has to go out and smuggle one.  The guy who smokes a cigarette down the hall from you at his desk alone in his office with the door closed is a criminal.  Some mother who wants to talk to her 12-year-old in the front seat is a criminal also.  All these people are criminals now.  That’s us.  Why do they have the right to make all of us criminals because we smoke, or want to have our kids sit next to us in the car?”  -Michael Kelly

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/us-backs-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waivers-to-expand-access-to-shots-worldwide.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992298635/food-and-drug-administration-moves-to-ban-menthol-cigarettes