PaperRound: 30th August '09
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On The Road
/I'm hitting the road for the next week or so. Visiting family and friends.
There will be no PaperRound for the next two weekends and no blogging or tweeting.
You lucky people!
There will be no PaperRound for the next two weekends and no blogging or tweeting.
You lucky people!
The 'Left-Wing' Rogues Gallery
/Neil Clark: The 'Left-Wing' Rogues Gallery:
Here is a 'rogues gallery' of 10 political figures who, while campaigning under a left or progressive banner ended up siding with capitalism and betraying the very people - and the causes - their parties were supposed to represent.
You don't say!
/ “Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Yes, we know. - Reason Magazine
“Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Of course, any 20-year-old could, and probably would, tell you that. But the quote in question was written by Dr. Morris Chafet, a psychiatrist who served on the presidential committee that pushed to have the legal drinking age raised to 21. That push paid off on July 17, 1984, when President Ronald Reagan signed the new drinking age into law.
Since that time, however, Chafet has apparently had a change of heart. The Los Angeles Times reports that in an editorial that has yet to be published, Chafet describes his effort to raise the drinking age as the “single most regrettable decision” of his career.
“Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Of course, any 20-year-old could, and probably would, tell you that. But the quote in question was written by Dr. Morris Chafet, a psychiatrist who served on the presidential committee that pushed to have the legal drinking age raised to 21. That push paid off on July 17, 1984, when President Ronald Reagan signed the new drinking age into law.
