Almost one in four of the country's 2m prisoners are there for drug offences, with only a limited chance of becoming productive members of society when they are released. Meanwhile, drugs have never been easier to get in the United States, with prices lower, purity higher and experimentation among schoolchildren as rampant as ever. Big Al's observation still holds water today and we should heed what he said. I'm a pushover for a well-crafted argument. Blame the Jesuits.
Conservatives are political animals.
Stockwell Day is a conservative. Stock must be a political animal. Okay, syllogistic reasoning has never been my long suit. The Bush Administration's pandering to the big uglies of Big Business coal, oil, automobiles could turn out to be a condign political miscalculation, a hubristic misreading of the slenderest mandate in history, reviving an image of the GOP that Ronald Reagan's rhetorical invocation of national-interest Republicanism had seemed to efface and tipping suburban America to the Democrats. Los Angeles Times Many of us were stunned to learn recently that nude photos of Andrea Thompson were circulating on the Internet.