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College Presidents have come out for lowering the drinking age--make that the legal drinking age-- back to 18.

As a father who just dropped off his 18 year old daughter at college, I can not agree more.

First of all, you can join the Army and vote at 18, and those are two things you shouldn't have to do sober.

Seriously, 21 is nonsense. Any law that a free people overwhelmingly disobey and hold in abject contempt should be changed-- that is one of the tenets of a free society. (This argument holds for marijuana as well.) Is there an American alive who waited until 21 to drink? Are all of our citizens under the age of 42 criminals?

I know MADD thinks that the higher age works. It doesn't. Education has worked, stiffer penalties have worked, greater publicity has worked, and the sea-change in societal acceptance of drunk driving, brought about in great part by MADD, has worked.

But the higher age? Nope. Kids are still drinking, just fewer of them are driving drunk. That said, still too many Americans, of all ages, continue to drink and drive, something that I just can't fathom.

The drinking age should be lowered. There is not a politician in office who doesn't have a kid who drank at 18--they are just too hypocritical, and too cowed by MADD to do the right thing. And that's a shame.