Common Sense 101 – Beer for Breakfast

Are we becoming too uptight a society when it comes to such things as alcohol, tobacco, fat and drugs? Dan compares now with the “good old days” when everyone smoked and drank. Also: The War Racket.

Show Notes:

1.”Secrets of a Small Town” by Peggy Noonan for the Opinion Journal, July 20, 2007.
2.”Workers are told to shape up, or pay up” by Daniel Costello for the L.A. Times, July 28, 2007.
3.”Study predicts 75 percent overweight in US by 2015″ by Reuters News Service, July 19, 2007.
4.”War is a Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler (1935).
5. “Congressional Agency Predicts War Costs Will Climb” by Walter Pincus for the Washington Post, July 11, 2007.