From RR

• Вечная память. ‘May their memory be eternal.’ Subway suicide bombers killed 38 in Moscow yesterday. Transit security is up. I’m surprised the London bombing happened a few years ago, remembering how hyper-vigilant the system was 20 years ago because of the IRA.
• Crybaby students want ‘Our Lord’ off diplomas. Some left-libertarian readers of RR like that; of course I don’t. This fake victimology is leftist. Sensible observant Jews et al. know they’re in a Christian-majority country and don’t begrudge us the free exercise of religion. And... hello? Trinity University! Nobody made you go there. If you’re that sensitive, spend your money and time somewhere else! As a libertarian I don’t get played in the culture wars but secularists are trying to stamp out Christianity and particularly Catholicism as the firestorm about the Pope shows. (The only reason the media give a damn about liberal churches is they’re fun toys to tease conservative Christians with, especially if outwardly they sort of ape Catholicism.)
• From a grand old man of the left: Obama delivers — for bankers.
• The health-care law will put more strain on primary-care doctors. My old one was so overworked he got out of that branch of medicine.
• FBI gives glimpse of most secret layer.
• US to sell its stake in Citigroup this year.
• Afghanistan: US tries to order Canada around but Canada says no. ‘American woman, get away from me!’
• NH: Free Staters harassed.
• Ron Paul: health care and economic realities.
• Hollywood’s unsettling view of the Iraq war. How much do you want to bet now that Obama’s president, they’ll start making it look like The Sands of Iwo Jima?
• Conservative intellectual bankruptcy.
• To thrive, the US needs skilled immigrants.

Labels: film, history, Iraq, libertarianism, politics, Russia