Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Nanny State and mental health screenings

The creeping incrementalism of the Nanny State strikes again.

They’re coming to take you away
Here’s a new question that more and more parents are going to have to answer? Should I allow my child’s high school to screen him for mental health problems? Your federal tax dollars are funding pilot studies that conduct mental [...]

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Today’s Blogmarks

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

Lawyers in Murder Appeal Use Cigarette-Break Defense
Lawyers for a man convicted of beating a former girlfriend to death with a lead pipe argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday that their client should be spared the death penalty, partly because jurors were not allowed to smoke while deliberating.
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