If Obama wants to do something good for this country, he can ban the word “Czar” from public use.<\/p>\n
Czars – absolute rulers of Russia, a state that hadn’t (and in many ways still hasn’t) left medievalism, autocrats who exercised boundless power and tolerated specacular cruelty in maintaining order – are not a very American concept.<\/p>\n
Another?\u00a0 Ditch the “war on drugs”, a war that has cost more lives than Vietnam and Korea together (not even counting the overdoses) and which we can not win as long as Americans – here’s a key concept – want to guzzle illegal drugs, and are willing to pay through the nose both ways for them.<\/p>\n
So what do you get when you put two concepts – noxious\/unamerican and just-plain unworkable – together? Currently, he serves as president of the Major Cities Chief’s Association, which consists of police leaders from the country’s 56 largest metropolitan areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So he’s gone from being a cop to a politician.\u00a0 Worse – someone who feeds off of politicians.<\/p>\n He has been an advocate of gun control and fought to pass the assault-weapons ban and has championed closing the background-check loophole at gun shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another great choice, Mr. President.<\/p>\n
\nRumor has it we might have a new Drug Czar – and it looks like the President has picked another real winner<\/a>, Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle police chief.<\/p>\n