It’s funny that Hillary Clinton thinks that with abortion you should be hands off and yet she wants to “help” people quit smoking, get more exercise, and eat right. Here’s Don Boudreaux’s take on Hillary‘s nannying ways:

I just read Ryan Lizza’s March 17th New Yorker essay on Hillary Clinton.  That essay inspired this letter:

I’m outraged that Hillary Clinton promises, if elected president, to help people (in her words) “quit smoking, to get more exercise, to eat right, to take their vitamins” (“The Iron Lady,” March 17).  Perhaps I’m overreacting because I buried my mother on Wednesday, but neither Uncle Sam nor Mrs. Clinton is my parent.  That role was performed remarkably well and lovingly by the persons who had responsibility for it: my father and late mother.  I, like any self-respecting adult, resent beyond words the impertinence of any stranger presuming to possess the moral authority to intrude into my affairs.

To my own dying day, I will live by the creed instilled in me by my parents: My life is my own, and just as I have no right (or wish) to meddle in the affairs of others, no one – regardless of how exalted her status or how large her electoral majority – has the right to meddle in mine.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

After reading this Washington Post piece I was left to ponder–what’s so bad about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former head of Barak Obama’s church. If you read the story you wouldn’t have any clue why people are fired up about Wright. Here’s a snippet:

To his supporters, the message Wright wove through more than 4,000 sermons is now disseminated in a handful of grainy, two-minute video clips that tell only part of his story. Yes, they acknowledge, he was sometimes overcome at the pulpit by a righteous rage about racism and social injustice.

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“The world is only seeing this tiny piece of him,” Moss said. “Right now, we are all being vilified. This isn’t just about Trinity, isn’t just about [Wright]. This is an attack on the African American church tradition, and that’s the way we see it. This is an attempt to silence our voice.”

The Washington Post didn’t see fit to tell us what that tiny piece of him is that was significant enough to be Barak Obama to sever ties with the man that converting him to Christianity. Never fear, I’ll do the Washington Post’s work for it.

Here are a couple quotes via Mark Steyn:

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America,” he told his congregation. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human.”

On September 16, 2001 he said, “We nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” said the Rev. Wright. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.”