post-9/11 and for using harsh interrogation methods to gain intel from terrorists. all pretty conservative stuff, right? on the other hand, i think pot and prostitution should both be legal. i want to end the s.a.t. or sclaftic a.p. duty test, but i think we should continue to teach cursive writing. i'm for breaking up my state's monopoly on the sale of alcohol and i'd like to see the u.s. treasury discontinue manufacture00 of the copper penny. those are all my opinions, or they were at one time expressed in newspaper columns. maybe right now i should be saying, i'm michael smerconish and i prove this message. explains the title of my next book, "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: american life in columns." with an introduction by david axelrod and a blurb by governor arnold schwarzenegger. i'm not making a penny, copper or otherwise, on the project. all of my proceeds are going to