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In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed policy.

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Reason.tv: Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups That Benefit From Drug Prohibition

Glenn Instapundit Reynolds explains why the U.S. government is in such deep Schlitz with the people it supposedly serves: The once-heady brew of American freedom has become watery and unsatisfying

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Glenn Reynolds: Why American Gov’t is in Deep Schlitz

I haven’t seen The Hurt Locker , so I’m not sure whether Kathryn Bigelow’s success tonight really reflected the merits of her movie or if it was just the Academy’s way of apologizing for snubbing Point Break . But there were some clear-cut winners and losers at the Oscars this year, and as we sit here wondering when Beau Bridges will finally take home a golden statuette we should take a moment to recognize those victories and defeats: Winner: randomly selected black actors. Whenever someone from Precious won an award, the camera would zoom in on the people who made and starred in the movie.

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Oscar Roundup 2010

One of the horribly fascinating things about following the real estate market from 2006 until, well, today actually, has been watching how long the body managed to keep running and twitching after the head was blown clean off.

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Because What Could Go Wrong With Fake-Identity Condo Purchases In 2008?

…or any other corrupt New York state public official for that matter. ProPublica reports that under New York law, there’s nothing a state employee can do that’s so bad he won’t be able to collect his pension

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Don’t Cry for Gov. David Paterson

Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution that calls upon President Obama to recognize “the systematic and deliberate annihilation” of 1.5 million Armenians during and after World War I “as genocide.” The New York Times notes that the resolution was approved despite “a last-minute plea from the Obama administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to offend Turkey.” The third-to-last paragraph of the story suggests that plea was somewhat inconsistent with Obama’s record. “While still in the Senate,” the Times says, “Mr

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Does Obama Know What ‘Principled Commitment’ Means?

I have previously  expressed   unease  with strident critics of Islam like Geert Wilders, the shock-haired Dutch MP who claims that “moderate Islam does not exist” and once compared the Koran to  Mein Kampf .

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Will the Next Dutch PM Be a “Hate Criminal”?

From the front page of the New York Times today: Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming , arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools. In Kentucky, a bill recently introduced in the Legislature would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.” … The linkage of evolution and global warming is partly a legal strategy: courts have found that singling out evolution for criticism in public schools is a violation of the separation of church and state

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This is What Happens to Science Teaching in Government Schools

While angry frat boy and MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan screeched about Nazi-loving, Jew-hating, women-killing members of the Tea Party movement (video available  here , but  this one is also worth watching ) and warned that “angry” kooks were destroying America, the angry kooks of Texas’s 22nd district were  nominating a psychotic  Lyndon LaRouche acolyte in their Democratic primary.

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Texans Against Perfidious Albion