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I&#8217;m not kidding around here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/004968.php#004968\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t realize that the DC Sniper was really the fault of the Army, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the INS, societal warping of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/24\/glow_sticks_and.html","url_meta":{"origin":3568,"position":0},"title":"Glow sticks and chill rooms and water, oh my!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Jul-02 9:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Reynolds weighs in on why the War on Drugs bodes horribly for the War on Terror. 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