Our public library has a food drive at the end of the year. Patrons have a chance to clear up their fines in exchange for donating food to the community food bank. It’s a popular program, maybe it’s better than calling the cops on children who enjoy reading books.

I have a prescription. This means a doctor has determined that I need the drug. Its on-label use is for ADD. What else do you think you need to know?

As for my “constant” posting on the issue, as far as I can tell, I’ve posted about the DEA’s Adderall control policy six times in 10 years of blogging.

That’s probably about as often as I post about pot (which I don’t use) each week.

So what’s your point, exactly?

Also, I would like to state, for the record, that I hate evangelicals and their beliefs, and I’m proud of it.

Have you ever heard someone (other than a cop) try to defend
police militarization?

Sadly, yes, I have. Among those on the “right,” it’s mainly the social conservatives that I’ve known who get the heebie jeebies from seeing American police dressed up like that. Neocons and the country clubbers (the generic, “I hate hippies, I’m kinda conservative but not one of them religious guys I like big business bomb the brown people” republican) are the ones who tend to see them as a necessary evil.

I think you are 100% wrong. It is very important that the ACLU not base its opinions on what constitutes civil rights on what the courts say.

Anybody fighting for civil rights is fighting for what they believe “civil rights” entail. If they just accepted court rulings, then they would be fighting to preserve judicial authority, not for civil rights. The SCOTUS is a tool that the ACLU uses to fight for their views, not the arbiter of what those views are.

And besides, the ACLU has submitted several pro-gun amicus briefs in the few years since Heller.

but it isn’t actively seeking wars against new foes with large standing armies, i.e. Iran.

Ahhh, Dark Fang. You KNOW you have spoken too soon, eh? If you think the US government isn’t actively seeking new wars, ask yourself “When has the US government NOT actively sought out new wars?”. They have buildings full of people devoted to this.

Unless you were being sarcastic.

So return the books already.

Tempest in a tepot.

“Not to be too picky, but just when did the US abandon George W. Bush’s foreign policy?”

The Obama administration may have continued Bush’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it isn’t actively seeking wars against new foes with large standing armies, i.e. Iran.

Have you ever heard someone (other than a cop) try to defend
police militarization? It’s an oxymoron (c’mon, “militarized” peace officer?) that squeezed through the cracks and became a horrible reality.

I’m a bit jaded with how they’re trying to define themselves as Republican mainstream and justify jamming it down people’s throats.

The Republican Party is divided into four main parts: social conservatives, libertarians, neoconservatives and rockefeller country clubbers. The social conservatives are still the single largest wing of the republican base, like it or not. So yes, they are quite justified in demanding that they be strongly accounted for in the Republican Party since that is only fair in a representative system.

If you actually get to know many real social conservatives, you’ll find that they are sympathetic to political libertarianism on most issues. That includes issues like police militarization. They’re more likely (and with good reason) to think that those SWAT units will be called out on them the moment the school district tries to force them to stop homeschooling their kids or want to start homeschooling them than say “I’m not a druggie, so what do I have to worry about.”

Any suggestions for how I can see the NYT articles Radley posts links for?

Try clearing your browser cache. Or use a different browser.

/sarcasm

Most also think Obama’s foreign policy has put the nation on a steadier course. To the extent that bellicosity from the Republicans — notably from Mitt Romney — portends a return to George W. Bush’s foreign policy, Obama will enjoy an advantage.

Not to be too picky, but just when did the US abandon George W. Bush’s foreign policy? The Iraq withdrawal was completed according to the schedule set out by GWB; the Obama administration actually wanted to stay longer. And the Libyan “Kinetic Military Action” was right out of the GWB playbook.

Care to explain why you have a prescription to Adderall? It would explain your constant mention of the Adderall shortage that the DEA is ‘causing’ and also help alleviate some of your bias.