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Archive for April 18th, 2007

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Fearing for your rights in the wake of a tragedy

By Thoreau
Immediately after the Virginia Tech shooting, a lot of people on the internet started talking about gun rights.  And it’s completely understandable:  In the aftermath of a tragic event like this, a lot of innocent, law-abiding people will naturally fear that this will be used as a pretext to restrict their rights.  As a [...]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Drug Warrior Loses Resolve

By Thoreau
Our good friend Jennifer has just written an excellent article on a medical marijuana patient. While the patient in question is quite a hippie, and perhaps not the ideal poster child for drug reform, the interview with a Drug Warrior from the state legislature, on the subject of medical marijuana laws, includes this [...]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

(Update) Progressives’ Propaganda; Or, Their Statism Sucks, Too

By Mona
So, while the Bushies have been inspiring endless ire from my keyboard for a few years and pushing me toward alliance with the left, now I’m getting greatly annoyed with “progressives” again. Today, Rick Perlstein is ridiculing Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan for aspiring to contract the size of the [...]