• Ron Paul: the Fed will self-destruct when it destroys the dollar.
• WASPs and foreign policy. Among things that were better 70 years ago this wasn’t one of them.
• Why college might be a bad investment.
• The real Obama will send 34,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan and backs the Patriot Act. Is this what you thought you were voting for?
• As Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute has pointed out, the immigration “crisis” — a by-product of the Fed’s financial bubble — is subsiding. This doesn’t mean, however, that we’ll soon see an end to the police-state abuses supposedly intended to “secure our borders.” Those abuses have been tolerated and even applauded by conservatives whose idea of “freedom” is a police state within secure borders.
• Big Brother Facebook. As has been mentioned before: At 18 years of age you are responsible enough to handle a rifle in order to murder someone for the U.S. military, but at 19 years of age you are not responsible enough to handle your liquor in order to have a little fun.
• My industry is still in bad shape.

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