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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness A review from the above link: Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama’s political success and Oprah Winfrey’s financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned…

From an Investors Business Daily editorial: In ways large and small, it’s easy to see we’re building a nanny state that will make Europe’s seem modest by comparison. After all, this doesn’t even include health care “reform” or cap-and-trade. Soon, the federal government will control every aspect of our lives – though the Constitution explicitly…

A few days ago, M. Simon wrote a post (“Brain Dead Republican Enhances Party Image“) that just stuck in my craw. A Republican congressman in Illinois (he’s co-blogger TallDave’s rep) has sponsored a new anti-marijuana bill to toughen penalties for with penalties of up to 25 years in prison for first-time offenses involving sales of…

Which reminds me a lot of America in the 50s when it was comic books, duck tail haircuts, and rock ‘n roll. It seems there is always some tool of the devil that needs exploiting. And the tools of the devil go in an out of fashion. In 1914 the once legal over the counter…

Suzanne Willis sent me this e-mail. She was responding to something she read in the Dallas Morning News. If, as Mr. Schram says, drug violence is due to Americans’ appetite for drugs, drug violence would have begun when Americans began using drugs. It didn’t. Americans have used cocaine, morphine and marijuana since the first Europeans…

The Drug War in Mexico as chronicled by Newsweek is starting to cross the US border. Late one night in January, an ambulance escorted by five unmarked squad cars pulled up to Thomason Hospital in El Paso, Texas. Out leaped more than a dozen armed federal agents to protect the patient–Fernando Lozano Sandoval, a commander…

The Swiss are giving in to the junkies. GENEVA (AP) – Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to…

What is morality? Perhaps that’s a silly question, for we all know it when we see it and those who don’t are said to be moral relativists. By merely posing the question, I may have already caused hard-line moral absolutists (if such a thing exists in logic) to roll their eyes in disgust. One of…

As the debate between libertarian and moral conservatives shows no signs of abating, I thought I’d take another look at the drug issue, which is a frequent area of contention. I’ll start with my remark yesterday in discussing Pope Benedict: If there’s one thing worse than a conservative, it’s a conservative who used to be…