From RR

• The enigmatic pro-consul. Few things have been as constant and steadfast as the policy of the Atlantic Empire in the so-called Western Balkans for the past two decades. From the early recognition of separatist regimes in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia to last year’s proclamation of the “Independent State of Kosovo,” the Empire has embraced and discarded logic and law, but maintained one ironclad rule: The Serbs always lose.
• A libertarian look at Harvey Milk. Why the late Cold War news expressions ‘Communist conservatives’ etc. weren’t oxymoronic; they wanted to use the old means to get what they wanted much like the left today really. Of course I’m more Burkean (political/societal ‘hermeneutic of continuity’) and don’t believe classical liberalism is about defending the rights of minorities as blocs but individual rights.
• Crimes against senior citizens show need for defensive arms.
• Unless the US president can break his hardline posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam.
• A very smooth liar. I’ve heard him in person. True.
• The death-squad veteran in charge in Afghanistan.
• The Totalitarian Times. The NYT printed Communist propaganda and won a Pulitzer for it.
• Redistribution, an unnecessary evil.
• Health insurance isn’t.
• The ‘anti-war’ Democrats who sold out.

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