From RR

• UK: Clegg to Brown: no coalition. Good.
• Good intentions in Arizona. This is understandable but it’s not a Hispanic issue; it’s one for everybody. (You have the right to move anywhere and the people there have the right to hire you at an agreed-upon, through the market, wage. Don’t base the law on Steve Sailer’s racial theories.) No identity politics, please. As Thomas Knapp notes, the president has no constitutional power to control immigration. It’s like well-meaning pro-lifers wanting the feds to stop abortion. Murder is not a federal matter.
• Knapp: Unlike the living-on-a-stolen-salary judge, Douglas was selling a product to willing customers.
• NY: feds attack rival gang.
• Bloomberg’s victim-disarmament group launches ad campaign.
• Baghdad’s secret prison. We overthrew a secular government and former ally that was no threat to us (no saints but that was none of our business) and put the Shi’ites (the bad guys in Iran 30 years ago) in power.
• The presumption of liberty. Note: our religion is based on faith and authority (infallible church not infallible self); authority of course is not bad.
• Covert government information warfare. Like when a company invents a fake Internet fan base for a product only older and more sinister. The Soviets did this and following their example the CIA used non-Communist leftists the same way. The state still does.
• Justin Raimondo: the making of American foreign policy.
• The virtual university.
• Psychiatric drugging of babies. Sounds like somebody just doesn’t like kids and big pharma wants to make a buck.
• The terrible ‘we’.
• ‘Extremist.’ Prior to September 2001, anyone who suggested that the U.S. government lead a crusade to “rid the world of evil” would have been labeled both an extremist and a loon. I wish that were so but I don’t think it was. The common-knowledge versions of the US Civil War (that it was fought to free the slaves) and WWII (save the world from fascism, a wrong but not necessarily evil system, as in Spain and Argentina... and hand half of it to the Communists), Wilson’s entry into WWI and of course the Democrats going into Vietnam (read The Quiet American) were very much of that type.
• Three common libertarian mistakes.

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