"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Analysis: GOP Seeks to Skirt Danger on Prisons
Submitted by Emmett Harris on Tue, 2014-01-21 01:00
“[A] conservative Texas think tank … argues states are spending too much money locking up nonviolent offenders in exchange for not very good results.” Yet many in the GOP are still supporters of the “War on Drugs.”
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