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Thugs pressure students caught selling pot into undercover buying for the thugs, and sometimes the students get killed.

Most Americans don't think of selling pot as antisocial, and neither do these students. They don't know how to move in the circles of hardened criminals.

Unlike hardened criminals, they are not accustomed to betraying people. Being set to cause the arrest of others like themselves must do them lasting moral damage. They must think that honesty is beyond their reach.

A nine-year-old boy was accused of terrorism in school for fantasy play in which he said a "magic ring" would make another child invisible.

The school staff who did this are not really idiots. Rather, they have been convinced that it is their job to act like idiots. This is even worse. After all, only a small fraction of the staff of a school could really be idiots, but all the staff could give in to pressure to act like idiots.

Obama called for an end to subsidies to oil companies.

Obama has started advocating a considerable fraction of the progressive causes that most Americans support. Too bad he did not do this when there was a chance of enacting the changes.

I expect that many Democrats who are not really very progressive will do likewise in the 2016 elections, without a serious intention of passing laws to do this. We will have to choose the serious progressives over the late converts.

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