If we were serious about bankrupting the Taliban, we'd recognize the futility of trying to destroy the market for opium by interrupting the supply, rather than reducing or eliminating the demand. Surely any free-market conservative can understand this: demand creates supply, not vice-versa.

I spent a year in Afghanistan with an Army infantry battalion. Once again, we redouble our efforts after losing sight of our goals - in this case, because of a neo-Puritan movement in the US that hates drugs and thinks people don't own their own bodies.

While I think the openly armed protesters are being stupid, they are clearly legally entitled to bear arms. The alleged quote from George Washington is fake: http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndbog.html.

Evolution has resulted in men being visually stimulated. Just a fact of life. Of course men want to look at naked women and people having sex. Big deal, chicken little. Men have been visually stimulated for hundreds of thousands of years. Even Hugh Hefner isn't that old!

Some women are also visually stimulated, though they are probably in the minority. My girlfriend watches porn occasionally. Do I run away crying and shrieking that she is unsatisfied with me, "dying a little inside"? Nope. Rather the opposite, I take full advantage of the situation!

I've never seen kiddie porn in Playboy. That's either a mistake, a fantasy or a flat out lie.

This neo-Puritan handwringing about porn goes in cycles. Here...