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RADLEY BALKO: Putting MADD in Charge of America?s Highways. ?With Hurley in charge, MADD?s goals?

By Glenn Reynolds

RADLEY BALKO: Putting MADD in Charge of America’s Highways. “With Hurley in charge, MADD?s goals will become NHTSA?s goals. That’s troubling because at heart, MADD is an activist organization. The groups once-admirable goal of raising public awareness about drunk driving has over the last several years morphed into a zealous, evangelical teatotaling campaign. When a coalition of college presidents recently asked for nothing more than a new debate over the federal drinking age last year, for example, MADD called on parents to boycott the presidents’ schools.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).