There is an interesting article by Jonah Goldberg here regarding the problems currently faced by the US government. Mainly, the article mentions obesity and discusses 527 groups (moveon.org, Media Fund, Swiftboat Vets, ect). Goldberg believes that these problems were developed somewhat by government intervention in other problems (or those problems were made worse by government intervention). It is a fairly interesting article, and has some useful but infrequently mentioned facts.