From the LRC blog

• Good for the Swiss People’s Party. Populist and semi-libertarian, the country’s biggest party said Switzerland should not take in any detainees from the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, which the Swiss government said last month it could consider to help shut the camp down. Switzerland should also reconsider its policy of representing the United States in countries where it has no diplomatic presence. The SVP said gold stored by the Swiss National Bank in the United States should be repatriated and Switzerland should ban the sale of U.S. funds in the country to protect Swiss investors after the failure of U.S. regulators.
• Not non-discrimination and colour-blindness, but vicious, vindictive, hateful discrimination.
• Acorn wants to train people they tricked into purchasing mortgages that they could never repay how to break into houses that aren’t theirs, in violation of the law.
• Robert Taft deserved to be and would have made a wonderful president (also true of Barry Goldwater) but compared to today Ike was good. I wonder if it simply was that he was from another, more common-sense and thus more libertarian age.
• Euphemisms abound in the Ministry of Truth. The unborn are “products of conception”; keeping your own money burdens the government with a “tax expenditure”; and highway robbery “stimulates” the economy.
• ‘We witnessed the collapse of the financial system’ in September. But why are Obama’s two early backers, Soros and Volcker, admitting to the size of the crisis? The better to erect a totalitarian state, and to justify the push to rip the rest of us off in even more frenzied fashion?