Day: June 19, 2017

Either Robert Mueller should resign, or we need two special counsels.

​Glenn Reynolds at USA Today:​

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a problem: He has a disqualifying conflict of interest regarding a large part of his work. It involves a choice between investigating or relying on former FBI director James Comey, a longtime close friend of Mueller’s.

Ideally, he’ll recognize that and resign. But if he doesn’t resign, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should appoint another special counsel to take over the obstruction-of-justice part of the investigation, where Mueller is disqualified.​

​Bold recommendation for bad situation.

As Glenn would say at Instapundit, read the rest of it.​

Hi-hi, ho-ho, the anti-drug war has to go

Iconic conservative the late Milton Friedman on that very point.

Today is the 46th anniversary of America’s War on DrugsOtherwise Peaceful Americans Who Voluntarily Choose To Ingest or Sell Intoxicants Currently Proscribed by the Government, Which Will Put Users or Sellers in Cages if Caught, see today’s previous post on CDhere. To bring awareness to this immoral, failed, costly, and shameful war on the American people, here’s some commentary below from Nobel economist Milton Friedman.

It includes his “pessimistic view of America’s future if we continue moving in the direction of socialism.” Which is a connection many do not realize.