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spectator.org - 12/5/2008
Sweet 21
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Seventy-five years ago today Utah ratified the 21st Amendment and brought the United States' dark age of Prohibition to a close. The very first Repeal Day was cause for raucous celebration, but since then the anniversary has mostly languished in obscurity. This year December 5 is finally ...
politico.com - 12/12/2008
Not so sweet on Caroline
— politico.com — It's been a week since her name vaulted to the top of the list of candidates for... N.Y. Senate; already the bloom is coming off the boomlet. (more) Not so sweet on Caroline

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Senator Sweet Caroline?
hotair.com - 12/5/2008
Senator Sweet Caroline?
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Smoke Up

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel Jacob Grier, like Radley Balko, compares prohibition to the war on drugs: ...we should acknowledge our contemporary struggle with prohibition. The war on drugs has led to gang violence, trampling of civil liberties, and military interventions abroad. Federalist principles are routinely ignored in medical marijuana raids, doctors face prosecution for prescribing painkillers, and ordinary adults must show their ID just to purchase effective cold medicine. The United States now has more than 300,000 ...

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