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Fifteen Years Ago Today…

…The USSR ceased to exist. Dave Kopel looks back.

In other receeding-tyranny news, The arrival of the New Year means bars in South Carolina will finally be able to pour from full-size bottles. Thus ends perhaps the dumbest “temperence” law ever — because bartenders treated the minibottles like shots even though they contain about a shot and a half each, the law’s main effect was to make drinks much stronger.

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John Tabin is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator online.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/01/01/fifteen-years-ago-today

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