Here’s the true application of Campaign Finance Reform: Political talk isn’t cheap, according to ruling.
This is the story about two talk radio hosts who want to help a referendum against a gasoline tax. Their efforts are rewarded by having to come up with a dollar amount to declare to the local election commission as in-kind political donations.
Of course, the Liberal talk radio host who is for the tax just as much as the guys in trouble are against the tax, doesn’t have to declare anything.
So the muzzle on free speech is coming down over our faces. What will YOU do about it? Because sooner or later it will affect you, one way or the other.

In a related story, here is the paradigm shift of the police: The Era of Jackbooted Nags.
The story broaches the idea that police are no longer looking for “real” criminals, but rather protecting people from themselves.
The Anti-Smoking Nazis are after every place that you smoke, including your car and home, especially if you have children.
Before I go any further, I wish to elaborate on my “Nazi” label. I am NOT invoking Godwins Law, but rather properly labeling the people who I am talking about. Nazi is short for National Socialist, people who have a very close ideology to today’s Left. They want to destroy ideas that do not agree with them (book burning was a favorite tool of the Nazis. Shouting down different views is a favorite of the Left). They both also want to “control” the people to create a perfect society. The comparisons go on. But I just wanted to peek behind this particular door for you.
Back to the smoking. The anti-smoking crowd want to destroy every place where the smoker goes to light up. This is pretty evident in this paragraph:

Last week at a town hall meeting held by D.C. Councilman Jim Graham, somebody raised the very good question of what to do when noise complaints skyrocket because every smoker up and down U Street is forced out on the sidewalk. And the answer? Crack down with anti-loitering laws.

And smoking isn’t the only vice getting the old heave-ho.

In a 2003 sting operation, Fairfax, Va., police officers entered 20 bars, administered breathalyzer tests, and arrested nine patrons for intoxication. Fairfax police Chief J. Thomas Manger declaimed: “Public intoxication is against the law. You can’t be drunk in a bar.” [emphasis mine]

So the politicians are forcing the police to enforce minor infractions at the expense of pursuing major criminals.
Only in America.