Freshman senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is really into regulatory reform. How into regulatory reform is he? He's so into regulatory reform that it's totally cool with him if businesses that serve food get to decide whether their employees are required to wash their hands. (Not a joke.)

For the first time in 21 years, the FDA-mandated nutritional information labels on consumer foods may soon get a major updating, because you're all fatty-fat fats, and you really need to pay attention to these goddamn things, people.

New York City's ban on the sale of sugary drinks goes into effect on Tuesday, and The New York Times would have you believe "coffee drinkers... are likely to face a thicket of complications." This is wrong. Coffee drinkers—people who drink actual coffee in appropriate amounts—will be fine. Others—people who drink…

What's the latest and greatest jobs proposal from the pride of the nation, your 112th Congress? This week, it's called "taking the week off." But when the House comes back for its light work schedule next week, longtime Alaska Rep. Don Young plans to introduce this... thing: A bill "to repeal every single federal…

"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business"; "Absolutely, positively not"; "I think the rich have to be taxed." —McClatchy asks small-business owners if they're being (per Chamber of Commerce claims) "choked by regulation" and finds that no, not really.

President Obama pulled the plug Friday on a long-delayed environmental regulation that would have further limited industrial smog emissions, leaving in place an ozone standard that EPA administrator Lisa Jackson recently described as "legally indefensible."

Republicans will only control one chamber of Congress next year, giving them little means of dismantling the "Obama Agenda." But after wading through Congress' history of old rules, they may have discovered a way to stifle the executive branch's power.

We naturally assumed that the United States of America took a backseat to no one when it comes to sexualizing our children at inappropriately young ages for the sake of commerce. Turns out, no: the UK is even pervier.

Oh look, 24 hours have passed, so House minority leader John Boehner should have endorsed some new, unworkable policy idea in bad faith by now. And he has: a moratorium on new federal regulations for an entire year, specifically. Really?

Al Franken's tough financial reform amendment regulating credit-rating agencies has been stripped in favor of something far more draconian: regulators will "study the issue and take action only if they think it is necessary." Brutal! Moody's must be terrified.