From RR

• LRC: the case against involuntary government.
• Ron Paul: cap and trade will lead to capital flight.
• Obama and health care: the development of economics was bad news for rulers who thought they were omnipotent.
• Misplaced faith: they have a lot of smart guys who know what they are doing.
• If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.
• antiwar.com: soldiers in Iraq are ill from burn pits.
• Britain faces new recession.
• Madoff’s small fry. Overheard at lunch yesterday from pensioners: ‘Madoff got 150 years.’ ‘Is that all?’
• The consequences of the culture of death.
• The ‘take your gun to church’ service and pastor predictably got a lot of laughs from liberal Protestants and they have a point (which they often don’t follow): the church is not a vehicle for secular causes. That said I imagine many of them don’t like his freedom message either (‘that rube ought to know his place and obey his moral superiors’). St Gabriel Possenti, pray for us.
• Why the GOP can’t sink Sotomayor. Never mind the culture-wars red herrings. Regrettably even the important constitutional issues like her defeat at one remove with Ricci don’t matter. With Senate confirmation practically a lock, big business plays nice with the likely next justice.
• Why adultery is still political suicide. Mores not morals but interesting. In many (most?) cases morals are none of the state’s business but mainstream society has a point that going back on your word with your spouse is blameworthy.

Labels: England, Iraq, libertarianism, politics