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Is America Dead?
...The last couple of Supreme Court terms have bludgeoned liberty at every turn. Even the wine ruling was but a limited victory. States can still ban wine shipments outright. They just can no longer ban only out-of-state shipments. And that, alas, was the only bone this court threw us.

The theocrats chip away at freedom from the right. The Nannycrats chip away from the left. They join hands at the Drug War, where their goals of government control over morality and government control over risk intersect.

Some have suggested that modern politics is no longer about liberal versus conservative, but about statism versus indivdualism. I wish that were true, but it isn't. There is no debate. Statism has triumphed. It wasn't even close.

The debate seems to be reduced to whether the people who have appointed themselves to run our lives will run them based on Biblical principles or on healthist dogma.