MISSOURI WATCH: POLICY MADNESS FITS CRIME

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Sunday, February 26, 1995

If you will be kind enough to follow me through a process which some professors of logic call the "linear effect progression," we all might have a better answer when someone poses the question, "Has the country gone mad?" Not that anyone asking the question has any doubt about the answer, nor that anyone hearing the plaint would argue that between drugs, crime and immorality, there's convincing doubt about society's sanity.

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