THE NEW NANNY STATE, WITH FISTS – AT 8:04 A.M. ET:  It seems that government nutrition "recommendations" are becoming more than recommendations.  Eat your tofu, or else.  From the Washington Free Beacon:

The federal government is taking steps to fine schools that do not comply with first lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service issued a proposed rule Monday to codify parts of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Mrs. Obama.

The regulation would punish schools and state departments with fines for “egregious or persistent disregard” for the lunch rules that imposed sodium and calorie limits and banned white grains.

A West Virginia preschool teacher was threatened with fines for violating the rules by rewarding her students with candy for good behavior in June 2015. The teacher ultimately did not have to pay, but the school had to develop a “corrective action plan” with training on the policies.

The government now seeks to make fines enforceable by regulation. Section 303 of the law requires that the federal government “establish criteria for the imposition of fines” for all the Department of Agriculture’s child food programs.

COMMENT:  This is pretty chilling.  The intrusion of the federal government into our lives, our schools, grows greater every day.  And the dream of the current Democratic Party is to extend that control.  We are in danger of losing our very freedoms, but we seem indifferent.  The Republican Party would be the logical organization to depend on for a reversal, but would you depend on the Republican Party?

March 29,  2016