From RR

• July deadliest month for occupation forces. Learning the hard way like the British and the Russians.
• Report: IDF used civilians as human shields.
• A history of blogging.
• Sotomayor vs Ricci.
• Why the depression hasn’t ended.
• The lowdown on crude Keynesianism.
• US helped ChiComs interrogate Uighurs at Guantánamo.
• ‘Nixon goes to China’ in reverse. That is, the modern left are Obama’s regardless so he is in a good position to sucker the country into another war, says Justin Raimondo, who thinks O will have a go at Iran. Then again the left always were for war ‘for your own good’.
• Big Tobacco’s evil as far as I can tell but ‘smoking bans have everything to do with the political classes exerting control over their populations’.
• School competition begets greater quality.
• The marijuana closet. Legalise decriminalise it.
• The defeatism of the British anti-war movement.
• Desertion. One more time, my take: those who do it on principle are heroes. (For example while in the service they changed their minds and applied to be conscientious objectors but were turned down.) But at the same time I’m not a pacifist. (I’m all for a strong defence and one with spiffy uniforms at that.) If you signed a contract you have to honour it. Part of their heroism is taking the punishment.
• A young Canadian libertarian thinks about social conservatism. If a Muslim can’t handle hearing a Christian word then he does not belong in a country of (supposed) free speech. Not all social conservatives want the government to control speech to fit the Canadian heritage mold. I would argue that most, like me, would probably prefer everyone to be culturally Canadian and value traditions but would rarely want the government involved.
• Trying to rent prosperity.

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