Can't you see Michelle with the axe?

Carry Nation rises again. It's an epidemic of fatness. America, no soup for you.

Can we repeal ObamaCare if it passes? (Carrie Alinsky, nah we have more finesse, on the right this time:)? Jeffrey Lord, AmSpec:

There is debate even today as to where this story actually begins. In fact the issue raised its head in America as early as 1657, when the General Court of Massachusetts banned the sale of intoxicating spirits. Some pinpoint the 1840s. But doubtless as good a place as any to start is with the birth in 1873 of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The objective, as is the case with government health care enthusiasts today, was portrayed as noble. Alcohol, the group believed, was tearing families -- and hence the larger society -- apart. Echoing the core argument of Obamacare today, to drink, particularly to excess, was portrayed as imposing ultimately unsustainable costs both societal and financial on others. This being the case, there was only one answer: a government ban on the use of alcohol in America.

The WCTU started in what is now known as the people's republic of Evanston, as close in spirit to the Obama's Hyde Park as you can get. Hemming Chicago in. In between you had Al Capone.

What a world.

As always, the unholy alliance between progressives and the Ku Klux Klan brought out the Klan, this time as a defender of the 18th Amendment.

Not to be forgotten was the surge in political corruption.

H.L Mencken at the time:

The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

Be careful what you wish for, Dems.