Here is further anecdotal weight to Billy Beck's thesis from a variety of blogs. These were arbitrarily limited to the most recent three posts from each website that had something to do with the slow suffocation of individual freedom and reason.

The Agitatorians: ban on outdoor public smoking, building codes for doghouses, and preemptive drug searches

UK's Samizdatistas: threats of Islamic theocrat thuggery, the imposition of national British ID cards, and political thought control

Reasonoids: Bush blowing his attempt at Social Security reform, No Child Left Behind creates perverse incentives, and more stupid warning labels

Das Misesians: legislative and judicial insanity, horrorible tales from the Federal Trade Commission, and defending the broken window fallacy.

Noodles!: forced obesity in the Middle East, gross misunderstandings of Ayn Rand, and tons of people turn out to vote on your freedom

The Rockwellians: the need for control, North Korea's fashion police, and the neoconservative and liberal love of Teddy Roosevelt

And then the Magnifisyncopathologican: Human Jackals in Benevolent Clothing, Neal Boortz goes wrong on Social Security, and No Texan's Life, Liberty, and Property are Safe...