From RR

• Rand Paul’s underground electric fence. Why Michael Lawrence says Rand’s as libertarian as Attila the Hun. It may please the racists at Steve Sailer’s (I have no problem with his theories but with the way he wants to write the law to fit them, denying smart NAM people a chance and giving himself away: race is not determinative) but not me.
• Open borders.
• My changing biz: if you love newspapers, let them go.
• Working on a (temp) dream where workers are atomized, badly compensated and strangely optimistic. As you may have guessed, I’m old-school, have had more or less the same job for 15 years, enjoy working for a similarly minded gentleman and share in the enthusiasm of changing over from newspapers to online video (like the late Brian Brindley I’m anti-modernity not anti-technology; in the field I’m the 1962-looking reporter you see in my sidebar, in summer rig these days, but holding a Flip cam); then again our company almost went under about two years ago. There is no job security from the higher-ups. I’d like private business run by gentlemen who give you a pension for life (and don’t use 401ks etc. to try to weasel out of that) and a gold watch after decades of good honest work. That said, RR editor Steve Tuccille sees it as an opportunity: Yes, and it could mean an end to dead-end jobs, employee “benefits” (instead of decent compensation for jobs well done), disgruntled employees and tyrannical middle-managers. Where’s the downside? Folks must give up the delusion of cradle-to-grave security! Keeping more of my money without the middlemen? Can’t argue with that.
• History: Justin Raimondo hates Harry Truman. The little Mason who nuked civilians in Japan among other things.
• We really shouldn’t let the furor over President Obama’s firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal cause us to lose focus on three important points regarding Afghanistan: The U.S. government should never have invaded and occupied the country in the first place, it should have exited the country years ago, and continuing the occupation for any period of time whatsoever is the height of immorality and folly.
• Taleban’s time horizon’s longer than America’s.
• Guns save lives.
• Liberals hate freedom: Woody Allen has recently lamented that it is too bad that President Obama is not a dictator. “It would be good,” Allen said, “if he could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of things quickly.”
• Tea Party potential. As long as the red-state fascist element doesn’t take over/it doesn’t get co-opted by the Republicans.

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