{"id":937,"date":"2015-03-02T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:39:47","slug":"booze-wars-dispatches-from-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/booze-wars-dispatches-from-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Booze Wars: Dispatches from the Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In every statehouse across\u00a0the nation a battle rages\u00a0as the forces of Liberty heroically throw\u00a0themselves against deeply-entrenched blue laws that should have been uprooted and\u00a0smashed\u00a075\u00a0years ago. Some of these assaults are well-organized and likely to succeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/203224\/liquor-privatization-pennsylvania-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">others face vetoes<\/a> by backward-thinking Governors. Others are <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/state-house-kills-deadwood-alcohol-sales-bill\/article_d1ebc3e0-4212-5596-b368-c519de44e81a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quixotic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2015\/03\/01\/Maryland-senator-proposes-bill-allowing-US-troops-to-drink-at-age-18\/4411425239387\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLight Brigade\u201d style charges<\/a> against impossible odds, lovely to watch but doomed to failure. Some battles, sadly, have already been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wndu.com\/home\/headlines\/Indiana-lawmaker-kills-bill-legalizing-Sunday-alcohol-sales-293846961.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the national scene, the emboldened\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/02\/28\/beer-battle-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Craft Beer\u00a0Brigade<\/a> is set to capture key ground in their brutal struggle\u00a0against the big brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t imagine all the momentum is on the side of freedom. The\u00a0armies of the nanny state are also on the march, with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2015\/02\/24\/bill-to-ban-sales-of-powdered-alcohol-in-iowa-advances\/\" target=\"_blank\"> bills seeking to prohibit<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/bill-banning-powdered-alcohol-advances\/article_e7015f64-d3ba-5756-97c7-f1d2d6bea467.html\" target=\"_blank\">form of alcohol<\/a> (in this case, powdered) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoan.com\/story\/news\/2015\/02\/24\/temporary-powdered-alcohol-ban-advances-state-senate\/23966233\/\" target=\"_blank\">advancing <\/a>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdueexponent.org\/city_state\/article_34538a75-3ed7-5081-8d04-25462d3b1f31.html\" target=\"_blank\">little resistance<\/a> in at least 18 states.<\/p>\n<p>The Brutal Hammer will be trumpeting the victories and mourning the defeats as they roll in, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every statehouse across\u00a0the nation a battle rages\u00a0as the forces of Liberty heroically throw\u00a0themselves against deeply-entrenched blue laws that should have been uprooted and\u00a0smashed\u00a075\u00a0years ago. Some of these assaults are well-organized and likely to succeed, others face vetoes by backward-thinking Governors. Others are Quixotic \u201cLight Brigade\u201d style charges against impossible odds, lovely to watch but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[184,168,88,54,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}