[The_Reader_David]

Actually, its surprising that Burns, who has shown himself a capable historian, would associate Prohibition with American conservatism. The 18th Amendment was part of the Progressive agenda, right there amid the other “Progressive Era amendments”: income tax, direct election of senators and women’s suffrage.

[simulus package]

This burns me. My taxes are used for agitprop on PBS as Kenny the Documentor lays Prohibition and its unintended consequences at the feet of organized religion and racists while essentially ignoring Progressive Statists' major role in promoting Prohibition. Why now is a documentary offered that ties religion to a failed and unpopular federal government program? Could it be that the left's darling who derides citizens who cling to God and guns" be seeking re-election in 2012?