wine sales

E-Wine.
I agree with Ken Starr. Please, dear reader, revive from your faint and continue on.

Ken Starr is representing the "Coalition for Free Trade and the Family Winemakers of California." Dumb name, yes; any group so blatantly inserting "family" into its title for good PR deserves a few sighs. Beyond that, though, the group is fighting various states' bans on internet wine sales. My home, NC, is one of those states. Imagine buying straight from those remote vintners in Oregon. Glorious.

Ini any event, Starr represents the good side here. Interestingly, a few ideologies clash in this one, as the Post reports.

Opposite Starr is Miguel Estrada. And the administration is weighing its interests in deciding whether to throw in a supporting brief...and on what side? The Post:

But the White House finds itself caught between two parts of Bush's political base: business interests who favor freer commerce and religious conservatives concerned about minors buying wine.
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On the other side are New York and Michigan, who are supported by attorneys general from 35 states. (About half the states have bans on direct wine sales.) The states are joined by liquor distributors and a coalition of religious and community groups including the National Association of Evangelicals, the Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America and American Values. These groups have joined a friend-of-the-court brief to be filed today by the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals.