From RR

• Switzerland may seize UBS data, guard it from US DoJ thugs.
• Obama drafts contractors as immigration cops. Is this what the people who voted for him really wanted? I think many voted for a figment of their own imaginations and of course he was more than happy to let them. Because of his colour nobody was really listening to him and again he was fine with that. So much for the dream.
• EU official: no chance of settlements deal with Israel.
• Long live Palestine.
• The equaliser: old man in wheelchair shoots at robber.
• Why torture is evil. So much for the pro-life great white hope Antonin Scalia.
• UK: taking a stand against the hyper-regulation of life.
• I had other plans on the Fourth: are the Tea Parties a scam? Republican operatives and agent provocateurs? “I believe we need to spend a little more on illegal immigrants, get them the (expletive) out of our (expletive) country and close the borders down,” Wurzelbacher said. “We can do it.” Bye.
• State-school horror stories. Political correctness (racialism) including dumbing down tests (to force equal outcomes) at the expense of kids’ safety and, yes, education. BTW that ‘African flag’ probably wasn’t really African but the Marcus Garvey tricolour of a back-to-Africa leader who AFAIK never actually went back to Africa. Makes sense at a joke of a school where the Spanish teacher doesn’t speak Spanish.
• Why the left misjudges GOP sex scandals. Because Christians, you know, forgive people.
• The fallacy of pre-emptive violence.
• Classical liberalism and the fight for equal rights. Busting this bit of common knowledge: progressives and leftists, the conventional narrative goes, fought the good fight while conservatives and libertarians either sat it out or sided with the bad guys.

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