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This week the US Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at the launch of a public awareness campaign to bring attention to the challenges faced by children and families affected by drug abuse issued an...
View ArticleWhen is a public place not a public place?
When it is in Orlando apparently. On Tuesday Ambush Predator shreded, in her usual inimitable manner, a Comment is Free article about a charity called Food Not Bombs who have discovered that laws, no...
View ArticleA message to Obama from a taxpayer
Some of you may have seen this last week thanks to twitter. If not, well I think anyone who is fed up to their eye teeth with government expenditure will agree with his sentiments even if they wouldn’t...
View ArticleBrown stuff on the doorstep
I’m sure that by now we have all read Greg Smith’s resignation letter. Being neither an employee nor a customer of Goldman Sachs I won’t comment on the veracity of the claims within the missive but...
View ArticleNo surprises allowed
With the hiding of tobacco products (no doubt to be followed by plain packing); minimum pricing on alcohol (no doubt to be followed by measures similar to those enacted against tabacco); the new idea...
View ArticleState good, individualism bad…
On Sunday Barack Obama gave the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio… Ronald Reagan who? h/t Maggie McNeill for re-tweeting it...
View ArticleOn Spying
Like it or loathe it, espionage is part of a State’s foreign policy arsenal and any State which doesn’t practice it to some degree is missing a trick. Knowing what your allies as well as your enemies...
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