"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Baptists and Bootleggers

That's the coalition that kept much of the South from allowing the legal sale of alcoholic beverages for many years. It has also become asort of shorthand for how self-interested individuals and moralistic groups use each other to ban or regulatet certain activities.

Jerry Taylor looks at one example from the environmental field.

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