Mises Daily
Author:
Adam Young
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Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory has a beef with Mary Sheila Gall , President Bush’s nominee to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It seems that Gall once “made a derogatory remark about ‘the federal nanny state.’” This remark, says McGrory, has “come back to haunt her” because, apparently, the phrase “nanny state” is now seen in