From RR

• Obama signs ‘borrow $787 billion, throw in ginormous hole’ bill.
• Indianapolis city councilman leaves GOP for Libertarians.
• American ‘war on terror’ has eroded rights worldwide.
• What the depression looks like. A US foreclosure image (above) is the 2008 World Press Photo.
• I’d like the control-freaks-out-of-my-face package, please. Neither the sickle nor the swastika.
• Wendy McElroy: The real radicalism, it seems to me, resides in people who are trying to empower individuals (including themselves) e.g. through protecting their rights (to own a gun, to homeschool children, etc.) or by teaching the skills that enable independence. The real radicals are constructing alternatives to working with or in a corrupt system that preys on human dignity and freedom.
• Deregulate labour.
• All the common myths about giving are exactly opposite to reality.
• Environmentalists vs eco-scammers. On CFLs: If they’re so incredibly good why do they have to be mandated?