A March 20 headline in the New York Post declared “Cigarettes are Back!” It seems that in liberal, health-conscious Hollywood, celebrities are smoking publicly and on magazine covers and cigarettes are big at the events, including in some instances provided to guests by the host. This is a good sign for those of us who oppose the nanny state, as the obsessive hatred of smoking has been one of the most egregious infringements on personal liberty in the last forty years. The pretense of anti-smoking legislation, when one is given anything besides sheer hostility, is that smokers cost the...

The modern car is an abomination. These once glorious machines have been covered in so many needless hoses, cords, sensors, and plastic shields that a man cannot just open his hood and look at his engine. They are full of other invasive features due to persistent regulatory creep combined with the desire to find ways to charge more for every model. The primary culprits are gas and emissions requirements—based on the hypocritical desire to constantly harangue us about energy use—and the competing demand that cars become ever safer typified by insane government initiatives to get down to zero...