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Whitney Houston’s miraculous voice

Listen to this. It’s the most striking testimony to the tragedy of Whitney Houston’s decline and fall from drug addiction: the unaided voice track from her monster hit “How Will I Know?”, recorded in her prime.

Gawker reports that Tony Bennett said Houston’s death shows that we ought to legalize drugs. Huh? Would Houston not have drugged herself to death if her substance of choice had been legally obtainable? By this logic, legalizing alcohol has led to fewer alcoholics. And as Gawker points out, Amy Winehouse drank herself to death, and Michael Jackson died from drugs he had legally been prescribed. Maybe Tony was drunk when he reached this dim conclusion.

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Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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