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More evidence that “progressivism” increasingly is totalitarianism 0
- July 7, 2014
Early this year in The American Thinker and in this column I discussed state marijuana legalization and federalism. I cautioned against advocates of freedom and federalism forming alliances with the “progressive” left on those issues in which the left claimed to favor free choice. I pointed out that that for that bunch”free choice” is nearly
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Lessons For Federalism from Colorado’s Pot “Legalization”0
- January 4, 2014
(An earlier version of this post appeared on the website of The American Thinker.) It’s ironic that one of the few “states’ rights” battles won in recent times was Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana in the teeth of federal laws to the contrary. Pot really isn’t legal in Colorado, of course. The federal government still
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More Constitutional Baby Babble—this time at Vanity Fair 0
- December 4, 2011
Vanity Fair’s sophisticated approach to rescuing a drowning man is this: Lecture him about how we all need plenty of water. The tony mag’s new attack on the Tea Party is entitled “Debt and Dumb.” But the attack shows the authors and editors at VF to be the ones either deaf or dumb: Either deaf
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