From RR

• Rand Paul: Balance the budget!
• The next US senator from Kentucky (who sounds a lot like his papa) explains his name. From Joshua.
• On really respecting the police: hold them to a higher standard not a lower one.
• Sin, regrets and public policy.
• Scottish Kirk sidesteps issue of gay ministers. More.
• Raimondo on Obama.
• Obama’s betrayals.
• Banking on fear.
• Justifying Iraq with torture.
• Setting a higher standard for making war.
• Openness for thee not for me.
• What the Gitmo speech means for civil liberties.
• New Yankee Stadium, the house that taxpayers built.
• Sovereignty 101: why the Second Amendment is absolute.
• Cindy Sheehan on Memorial Day.
• They died for nothing. A history of America’s wars.
• Remembering why we remember. It’s a bit cliché but here are Peter, Paul and Mary with Pete Seeger doing one of Seeger’s classics (from T1:9). He just turned 90.
• Memorial Day or Government Day?
• An anarchist looks at Memorial Day.
• On not ‘supporting the troops’. Liberal critics of the Iraq catastrophe have long demonstrated that they do not disagree with the basic foreign policy methods and goals put forth by conservatives (and by neoconservatives as well). Certainly, they do not: over the last hundred years, liberals have utilized endless global intervention in service of worldwide American hegemony, usually more determinedly and more bloodily than the conservatives themselves (always excepting the criminal reign of George Bush the younger).
• On high-tech cowardice and bullying.
• Just one more thing, soldier. RR editor Thomas Knapp notes: The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is no more ‘involuntary service’ than ‘stop-loss’ is. Both are specified in the contract, and no one is forced to sign the contract.

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