Industry Is The Enemy Of Melancholy

Treatment Is Not Now Available For Almost Half Of Those Who Would Benefit From It. Yet We Are Willing To Build More And More Jails In Which To Isolate Drug Users Even Though At One-seventh The Cost Of Building And Maintaining Jail Space And Pursuing, Detaining, And Prosecuting The Drug User, We Could Subsidize Commensurately Effective Medical Care And Psychological Treatment.

The More Complicated And Powerful The Job, The More Rudimentary The Preparation For It.

Arlen Specter Is The Man Who Voted In Favor Of Bill Clinton During Impeachment, Voted Against Robert Bork For The Supreme Court, Voted Against School Choice For The District Of Columbia, Endorses An Absolutist Interpretation Of Abortion Rights. He Is Bright And He Is Tough And He Belongs Elsewhere.

Idealism Is Fine, But As It Approaches Reality, The Costs Become Prohibitive.

We Have Got To Accept Big Government For The Duration-for Neither An Offensive Nor A Defensive War Can Be Waged, Given Our Present Government Skills, Except Through The Instrument Of A Totalitarian Bureaucracy Within Our Shores. … And If They Deem Soviet Power A Menace To Our Freedom (as I Happen To), They Will Have To Support Large Armies And Air Forces, Atomic Energy, Central Intelligence, War Production Boards, And The Attendant Centralization Of Power In Washington-even With Truman At The Reins Of It All.