a nanny state? really? a nanny state. the republican party is often clumsy with language to a fault, using nanny state is such a benign word for what is pernicious suffocating authoritarianism. nanny state? why not just call it the obama-mary poppins administration and be done with it? it is the left's authoritarian impulse to control language and then to control plot, and ultimately to control you and me. some in the left as former democratic party head howard dean objected to calling these killers muslim terrorists. even reliable leftists like comedian bill maher getting it right when it comes to radical islamists. >> i know most muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. >> true. >> but here's the important point, hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. they applaud an attack like this. when they say is we don't approve of violence but you know what when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off. lou: two presidents in a row, in fact, mr. obama and mr. bush refused to name our e

is in terrible danger. >> these politicians are getting sort of more bullish in their -- in the nanny state'sroach. >> i like to call it the hall monitor state, like the guys in high school, your classmates and would say, you're not allowed to walk on this side of the corridor. >> you are not the boss of me. >> they are not the boss -- this is a self-governing society. if you want to go outside when it's snowy and slippery that's fine. mayor de blasio of new york city spent a minute warning people not to go outside to go to the corner store to buy some eggs because they might slip and fall. we're his boss. he is not our boss. i don't need to hear from my mayor that i'm not supposed to go outside when it's snowing. >> first responders if you did slip and fall he said that would endanger them. >> there are 8 million people in new york city. they shut down the subway. the entire city is basically shut down today. that's hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue. this is the most important city in the world economically. basically, it was shut down on the orders of two politicians. that is

is in terrible danger. >> these politicians are getting sort of more bullish in their -- in the nanny state's> i like to call it the hall monitor state, like the guys in high school, your classmates and would say, you're not allowed to walk on this side of the corridor. >> you are not the boss of me. >> they are not the boss -- this is a self-governing society. if you want to go outside when it's snowy and slippery that's fine. mayor de blasio of new york city spent a minute warning people not to go outside to go to the corner store to buy some eggs because they might slip and fall. we're his boss. he is not our boss. i don't need to hear from my mayor that i'm not supposed to go outside when it's snowing. >> first responders if you did slip and fall he said that would endanger them. >> there are 8 million people in new york city. they shut down the subway. the entire city is basically shut down today. that's hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue. this is the most important city in the world economically. basically, it was shut down on the orders of two politicians. that is not -- >

what are we becoming a nanny state? government and schools have way too much to say on what we do. michael says, you have to take all the fun out of everything people? jeez, we can't do anything fun any more. but this one comes from jenny. she says hyped up headline, i don't know if you can blame the nanny state so much as our culture. townships need to protect their finances. good reason. joining us right now by skype greg troutman. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >>> my pleasure. what do you think of this trend we're seeing so many more of our communities are saying these sledding hills are too dangerous we've got to start shutting them down? >> well, they're not dangerous. kids have been doing this for ages and ages. it's just that they're getting tired of these lawsuits. these fridge us will lawsuits and the insurance companies have reversed things. it's like the public is now insuring the insurance compan companies. why do we have insurance if they're not to protect us for this? >> we've seen a lot o

part of it is a nanny state. we have a mayor i think for you. bike or go outside f we're told we don't have to think for ourselves -- >> universities are non-profit. they are takes incent. they work on our nickel. northeast blizzard still bearing down on boston. our live coverage continues. plus we have this for you, disgraced sorts star lance armstrong opening up whether he would cheat all over again if he had the chance to. >> if you take me back to 1995, when it was completely and totally pervasive probably do it again. ♪ go! go! go! he's challenging the very fabric of society. in a post cannonball world! was it grilled cheese? guilty! the aquatic delinquency is a larger issue to this ♪ you did it again, didn't you? yup. ♪ you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a secon

is this just common sense or the nanny state run amok. >> let her rip.g ten. >> sledding is enshrined in america culture. both high and low. from clark griswald in "national lampoon's christmas vacation" to "home alone" to "citizen kane." but now, this hallowed winter pastime, this right of passage is under assault. cities and towns across america are banning sledding in certain public spaces calling it too dangerous. the most extreme we found -- dubuque, iowa. the city council is outlawing it in almost all of their parks hoping to avoid being sued if an accident occurs. and they do happen. one study found between 1997 and 2007 an average of more than 20,000 children a year wound up in the emergency room with sledding injuries. the most commonly hurt body part? the head. so what are they saying on the ground tonight? >> i think the kids love it too much, however, i do understand. >> in our unscientific survey most kids and parents were still pro-sledding. >> we love sledding! >> in an era when dodgeball has been banned for safety concerns and peanut butt

are we going to continue to be a constitutional republic or a welfare nanny state? that's the separation nat we're on right now. and if we end up having more people on the side of the welfare nanny state, as the detocqueville wrote, democracy cannot exist as form of government, october only oexist when election tort realizes they can vote their own -- voters will all vote for the person that promises them the most bench fits. the result being the collapse of democracy over loose fiscal policy followed by dictatorship. 1830. democracy in america. so that's where we are. but you know what? this is a great nation and we always find a way. okay. last question. >> out gott ahead of me. i was going to ask you about the keystone pipeline. denied in the senate by one vote 59-41. >> there you go. >> so you already talked about that. so what would be your -- what is your stance on the tax code? needs to be simply identified? >> the tax cold has to be simplified you have progressive tax code system and when people start talking about raising taxes, most folks don't understand,

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. >> someone who trueing to do business in nanny state of new york i do have sympathy for them every day i have to obey the idiotic laws imposed by our own petty tyrants we could not drive the other night and mayor de blasio warning us, you can't even walk on the sidewalk. you know, i do that because i have to stay here. you know, and do business. i can see where zucker tkerg has tozuckerberg hasto deal with this, he has a business at least facebook tells you which country are doing the senor censorship. kennedy: you know very difficult they want to get into huge markets with a lot of digital users. but, could he have done something different? >> well, it just goes -- this is a typical pointless facebook post people say repost this if you hate cancer, we're antianswer but you did not acome blue chip -- accomplish, a typical grand standing, you make a statement and you don't sack sacrifice and poop hits sand you say i'm out. >> if he said not every place is united states, aren'try lucky we live here, and by the way i am changing my "avatar" to a prophet mohammad from "charlie hebdo."

this nanny state interfering in the lives of ordinary folks has to stop.oing to the pre-school and talledoddlers. >> they act like it is my fault my son only eats a couple things >> they think they know better on everything from health care to eating and the more they control our health care the more they want to control what you eat. you see complaints and videos and what i don't understand is why they don't make changes. i think michele obama's plan was well intentioned. but why not make good intentions? >> she is not the president. he is asking if she is the president. >> she is the president of your belly. >> big territory sometimes. >> you cannot be dictating and man mandating to american citizens what they will eat. >> there is a link between health care and diet. the legacy is if we force people to eat tofu we will not have to pay as much care. >> or we will all be thin. >>> before head to the super bowl a patriots star helped save a woman who got into a car crash. he was driving by on his way home after the game. a high school girl's coach speaking

it's the nanny state. >> i mean how can house republicans, i mean be credible on income equality jason, if they make comments like that? >> you can even step back further. i was amazed when the president said we should have equal pay and sick leave, and there were republicans who didn't stand up. you can't rebrand muirself as the middle-class party if you're against basic things like paid sick leave. how are you going to pay for two free years for community college? the president has a plan but i think on that particular policy uh them people who -- >> but you now, abby last night in a if speech in mississippi, mitt romney said he's focused on income inequality. we need to lift people out of the poverty. almost every week during my campaign, i let folks who have fallen into poverty. did he meet those people on the campaign trail before or after he talked about the 47%, abby? >> first of all, i still can't wrap my head around the fact he's running again. to me that's still so crazy. it's interesting, because republicans -- >> you do think he's running? >> i do. he thinks he's the only o

>>> about 70% say we are in a nanny state now. line congratulations. now, news. >>> hello everyone, it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." well the predictions for new york city were dire. >> this will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of new york city. this is not going to be like other snowstorms. prepare for something worse than we have seepn before. >> but after all the catastrophic warnings, the dooms day forecasts the blizzard barely blue through at all. the fact is meteorologists blew it. so did the climate change alarmists who were already blaming global warming before the storm even hit. >> we're really seeing a lot more of this kind of extreme event. that's what we expect. that's what the climate science says. >> we have not seen temperatures of the water this high contributing to this weather pattern. so in a sense is this somewhat new territory for us in the meteorological world. >> the very strong winds that will be associated with this storm in the next couple days, these could be connected to climate

is this nanny state. >> can't believe it is so busy. "outnumbered" at top of the hour.ow back to jon. jon: we're looking forward to it. >> easier time reaching you on your cell phone, the fcc is now considering changing the rules to make robo calls legal. let's bring in fred tecce, former federal prosecutor, arthur aidala, former prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and fox news legal analyst. this is a little overly simplistic the way we introduced this. it is specifically for banks. banks want to be able to robo call us whenever they want. what do you think about that? legal? should they be allowed to have the exception? fred? >> i'm sorry. me. well i think it is actually banks and debt collectors which i'm worried about getting dunned by papa john's. put that aside not my gym membership. i don't think they should be allowed to do it. americans find it very annoying. i find it very annoying. when you sign up for american express or any credit card or banks you can provide cell phone number and give them permission to call you irrespective whether human or robot. i do

they nanny stated us and some people are angry. >> and sarcastic, a lot of sarcasm.d, a regular here at fox said i've seen worse snowstorms president in a snow blow. somebody else said even the weather things the patriots did it. and another one, more like blasard. >> there was one tragedy the back street boys were unable to travel to new york city so they are looking on an alternative. >> i hope they fly their fans out to wherever they are next. >> maybe l.a.? >> the conversation has been you know you shut the subways down. we can save our own butts. no,-underrers complain -- new yorkers complain. we're good at it. >>> the national weather service is evaluating their mistake. >> a lot of talk today about whether officials near the city of new york overreacted in the face of a forecast that turned out to be in error. in fact the meteorologists in charge at the national weather service regional office went so far as to take the twitter to apologize for getting it wrong. he tweeted out quote, my deepest apologies to many key decisionmakes and so many member 0 the gener

>>> about 70% say we are in a nanny state now. brush your teeth and watch "hannity," next. >>> and they're off. >> who will stand with our allies against radical islamic terrorists. >> now is the time for both conservative colors -- >> as we inch closer to 2016, top republican leaders are starting to sound pretty presidential. governor scott walker and sarah palin are here tonight. >> the army has decided that they want to pursue bergdahl. >> new reports that the army will charge bowe bergdahl with desertion. >> these could be connected to climate change. >> and the liberal mainstream media uses winter storm juneau to tout their global warming agenda. how wrong they are. it's almost super bowl sunday. but the deflategate is looming over the patriots -- heads. >> i would expect and hope that the league would apologize to our entire team. >> plus the big question of the day, straight ahead. >>> the road to 2016 is heating up. prominent members of the republican party are starting to sound a bit presidential. many of the names gather

hundreds of kids sledding and walking but some were worried this may have been an indication of a nanny state mentality. this is "the new york post" comments on that. >> this is a self-governing society. if you want to go outside when it o'snowy and -- when it's snowy and slippery that's fine. mayor de blasio warned people not to go outside and buy eggs because they might slip and fall. we're his boss. he is not our boss. i don't need to hear from my mayor that i'm not supposed to go outside when it's snowing. >> in 1888 there was a giant blizzard in new york city and people said you know what? we've got to do something. let's dig a subway system underground. the subway was created because of a blizzard back in 1888. my problem with, it's always best, i feel, to be safe than sorry, but they pulled the plug so fast. they have never in the 101-year history of the subway turned it off because of snow. >> it's already underground. >> this became a political hot potato that governor cuomo and the mayor of new york city, de blasio they both have had terrible p.r. problems and wanted to be the hero

more important i hated the fact the nanny state is in my hamburger. hate the fact than any state is in my pizza. government has no business in this. a key argument we are trying to do what is best, you should know how much fat and calories you are consuming. that is my responsibility. it is not the government have responsibility to force -- stuart: it is a fair argument to say to business why don't you tell people exactly it -- >> that is different. if you want to encourage businesses to do that for public health reasons okay, i still don't think the government should be doing it but that is the case. to use the coercive power of government to regulation in obamacare to force them to do that is outrageous. stuart: you just need an army of lawyers to protect yourself. going to stay for the hour. the obama administration, the obama team is releasing $11.9 billion in previously frozen cash assets releasing that money to iran. they will do this by the end of june when the nuclear talks the scheduled to end. senator robert menendez, democrat new jersey, is

you want to be careful about overdoing it with the nanny state business after mayor deblasio's pressne do this don't do that do this. i saw someone tweeting thank you, mommy. which reflects the resistance to being bossed around. >> no question about it. good luck to you up there. we will check back in with you. new rochelle. we hope you do. right. we will talk with boston's new mayor in our next hour. we will continue to track this monster storm all morning. so you can track the information and do with it what you will. >> we sure will. there has been another breach of white house security. except this time it's not a person on the white house grounds. let's go right to joe johns at the white house for us. what is it joe? >> reporter: alisyn it's a drone, we are told by authorities. apparently landed here on the white house lawn early this morning. we are told it's not going to be a threat to anyone. authorities really don't know what they have. there is an increased security presence here at the white house and started early this morning. the president was not here. the first lady w

nanny or a babysitter online. police tell us the scammers claim to live out of state but they say they're moving to the area soon and need a nanny. then comes a persuasive but phony story about needing to send you special items their child will need while in their care or your care. they send you a large fake check and ask you to cash it keeping some of the money and sending them the rest. weeks later, when the check turns out to be fake you're on the hook to pay your bank back for all of it. police tell us you should never send money to someone you don't know. >>> continuing now with our fresh start for your finances in 2015 the holidays are behind us but some of those credit card bills are still withoutout there waiting for us. >> consumer reporter erika gonzalez with some quick and practical ways to climb out of holiday debt. >> we all know that putting off payments can really cost you in the long run so, you need to make a plan now. the holidays are a time of spending and for some of us overspending. >> you overspent. on what? >> thins for my family members. >> reporter: how about how much did you overspend? >>

. >>> and nanny cams it seems high-tech to pull this off? >> well it is high-tech and illegal on a state and federal level to hack into someone's webcam. most of us with webcams have them password protected and doing something for the baby monitor is something that people overlook. most models give parents a way to peek in on their babies but strange thors are able to do it too. >> reporter: you are able to the talk and look at your baby over the internet but at what cost? >> somebody could break into your house from thousands of miles away. >> i heard somebody talking on the camera monitor, and i was like, hmm, maybe, maybe my bosses are maybe playing a trick on me or something. >> reporter: a ash hly lyashley stanley was changing a diaper when she heard a man's voice on the camera and then she plugged the camera right out of the wall. i was thinking, who has been watching as her mom has been breastfeeding her. >> reporter: eric chu protects the online data, and says that more and more of our lives are being routed through the internet. >> wearable technologies and the cell phones are a

state. you sound a little bit like the mean nanny in this book. >> there's a big difference between recognizingtural divides between the people living in the bubbles of new york washington and hollywood and those living in the flyover country. no one wants to be the national scold. i don't want to be that either but i don't want the government dictating exactly how i have to live my life. i think the government has a role and responsibility to create an atmosphere for us in terms of incentivizeing good habits, perhaps even educating us, making us aware, but the one thing you never effectively do to an american is tell him what he absolutely will do because americans love freedom enough we'll just bow up and say i'll do everything but that. i think it's a matter of let's change cultural norgesms we need to but let's do it in the way we have changed other norms whether it's litter seat belts, drunk driving. all of those are cultural changes but it wasn't because the government first told us what we couldn't do. it was because we became more aware of what we should do. >> i have to ask, if it's a

nannies on a private jet plane to davos for the week. joining me, president of demos and an entrepreneur. we're going to check in on the state of our billionaires. nick, you know some billionaires. you've been writing about the world of the 1%. is the state of our billionaires strong? it seems quite strong. >> the state of our billionaires is very strong. it's galactically awesome to be us. >> is there any sign -- it's amazing in six years of recovery that this group of people who a lot think barack obama is a socialist, they hate redistribution. it has been an incredible time to be super rich in this country. you've got impressive amounts of gains flowing to those folks. >> we have structured the economy to benefit very small minority of people. that process is a feedback loop, which is accelerating. and, you know, there's not a better example of the way in which we're currently manipulating the economy to benefit people like me, than the $700 billion a year, you know, american corporations currently spend on stock buybacks. which do nothing but inflate the, essentially the paper value of assets. for the benefit of the very

nanny pelosi. >> alabama's attorney general wants a federal judge to put a ruling that overturns the state's bann gay marriage on hold. yesterday a judge struck down alabama's ban. it comes after two women sued the state for failing to recognize their union. the attorney general said that the decision should be put on hold because the court plans to take up the issue of gay marriage this term. >>> california state judges can no longer participate in the boy scouts. the court decided to ban judges on the browned grounds that they discriminate. judges were banned from that on the bases of sexual orientation but made an -- exceptio no, for nonprofits. >> now to the story making news and sports headlines this week. deflate gate. the nfl said its interviewed nearly 40 people in its investigation of under inflated footballs but none of the people are new england patriot players one of the lead investigators is an attorney who helped the nfl look there to the dolphins bullying scandal. mean -- the patriots rallying between tom brady. >> tom is a big boy. he knows how to handle all situations. he will h