Even LA Times Offended By Government Being Permitted To Determine Temperature Inside Your Home

Updated Jan. 21, 2008, 6:25 pm -- Good call by a reader. It is not the LA Times that is offended. A conservative columnist that they begrudgingly publish on occasion, Jonah Goldberg, is ticked about this issue (as I have been).

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The California Energy Commission has backed off on plans to force homeowners to install remote FM receiver thermostats in their homes that would allow utility companies, and the state (in a state of emergency or price situation) to regulate the temperature in private homes.

The Los Angeles Times has published a column by author Jonah Goldberg about thermostats and the continuing "nanny state." Not surprisingly, however, when it comes to self defense, the Times editors have no problem urging the licensing and regulation of the "tools" Californians own to protect themselves.