FROM THE ARCHIVES.

25 YEARS AGO

November 1992

"Three years after George Bush waved a baggie of crack at the American people and declared war on a group of chemical compounds, Sen. Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has issued a report that opens with a startling declaration: 'The President's drug control strategy must be evaluated against the only goal that matters--winning the war on drugs.'...The Democrats' alternative' to the war on drugs, as always, is a bigger war on drugs."

JACOB SULLUM

"Just Say Mo' Money"

"I propose that voting, like cheering at a football game or sending a get-well card, should be understood as primarily an expressive rather than an instrumental activity."

LOREN E. LOMASKY

"The Booth and Consequences"

"Billy Clinton and Albert Gore look like the two guys we hated most in high school. Clinton's got that evil grin; he's laughin' because he's havin' just a little too much fun. He's getting lucky with every girl in school--even, I'll bet, yours. He's goofing off, getting away with it; didn't inhale, my ass. Damn, he even ends up on scholarship in England while there's a stinkin' war going on....Albert Gore, on the other hand, never smiles; he doesn't have to, because he's virtually perfect. His daddy was a senator; he's a senator. All the best schools, never in trouble a day in his life, concerned for the environment."

THOMAS W. HAZLETT

"George of the Bungle"

35 YEARS AGO

November 1982

"The fundamental problem is that our political system is inherently biased toward spending--taking money from everyone to reward favored constituencies. Those interests may be narrow and special--nuclear power, farmers, builders--or they may be broad-based--retired people, for example. Most of the 'cuts' thus far have been in the 20 percent of the budget that affects narrow domestic interest groups. Nearly untouched has been the 48 percent accounted for by 'entitlement' programs."

ROBERT W. POOLE JR.

"Sacred Cows--Or Us"

"Back in 1911, 'Big Tim' Sullivan had promised that his handgun permit law would do more to stop killing 'and save more souls than all the priests and ministers in the state.' New York City's murder rate proceeded to shoot up 18 percent in 12 months."

DAVID T. HARDY

"Gun Control: Arm Yourself With Evidence"

"Corporate Security struck a deal with Reminderville and Twinsburg for protection services. For $90,000 a year-half the amount requested by the Summit County sheriff's department--the firm...