Believe It When You See It

If the President actually pardoned every nonviolent drug offender who is currently incarcerated, on parole or on probation, I suspect---strongly---that history will remember more for that than for the Goldberg Act. I mean, the health-care law keeps in place our terrible, overpriced private-sector health-care regime while merely shifting the costs around, while freeing tens of thousands of inmates would mark a profound sea change in our long-failed drug policy. I doubt it'll happen, but we can hope!

---Baron V