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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:00:00 GMT
Michael Z. Williamson at KeepAndBearArms.com - Standing Orders: a fictional account of a police officer who refused to follow the order to confiscate guns. "Serve and Protect" is the purpose of a police department, not seek out and destroy. I hope it works out this well when the confiscation orders come for real. I fear that it will be much bloodier than this. [kaba]

Dave Kopel at the National Review - Prohibition Fever: Prohibition doesn't work. Never has. Never will. We're finally getting anti-drug-prohibition liberals and anti-gun-prohibition conservatives together, realizing that the evil here is prohibition, not guns or drugs. Yay! [kaba]

In order to recognize that prohibition doesn't work, a person doesn't have to like the prohibited object. A liberal can wish that guns were never invented, but still realize that gun prohibition will increase gun violence (since only criminals will have guns) and will lead to a huge loss of Fourth Amendment rights and other civil liberties for everyone -- not just for gun owners.

Conversely, a conservative can wish that people had never figured out that the cannabis plant can be smoked, and he can wish that the coca plant were extinct. But he can still recognize that drug prohibition can't stop drug abuse, but it can harm everyone's rights-destroying the lives and liberties of people who hate drugs.

Ann Coulter at TownHall.com - Two weeks till indictment! Ms. Coulter can't wait for Robert Ray's indictment of the rapist in chief. [lew]

Leaping to surrender is not unusual for Sen. Hatch, which is why there's an expression in Washington, "Don't count your Hatches before they've chickened." Poor good-hearted Orrin Hatch still thinks he can work with Democrats. That's why he lasted in the Republican primary for about six minutes before being forced to drop out through lack of interest.

Remember that? Orrin Hatch ran for president last year. The Republican Party is well-familiar with the Hatches and the Fords and the Doles ("tax collector for the welfare state"). They're known as Republicans who lose.

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With or without a conviction, a criminal prosecution of William Jefferson Clinton is the only fitting conclusion for the "most ethical" government in history.

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