Apparently Barack Obama is making his first trip as president to Mexico (Hillary Clinton and Janet Napalitaliano have already visited). It seems like there are a few big policy questions of mutual interest.
1. Interdiction of illegal firearms flowing from the US into Mexico for use in the ongoing drug war raging there.
2. Reducing the demand for illegal drugs in the United States
3. Reducing poverty in Mexico
If Barack Obama wanted to propose serious programs on each of these issues, I wonder what he would propose. Especially on numbers two and three, I wonder if good public policy could deliver a lot more results than we're currently getting from our "war on drugs".
The Scientist of the Soul
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The materialist world view is often associated with despair. In "Anna
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