From the LRC blog

• Currency meltdown: how Jim Rogers thinks the markets will plunge.
• Pravda on America’s descent into Marxism. More.
• The power to license is the power to control. Houses of worship, take note.
• A sort-of anti-war song from Carrie Underwood. (The commercial YouTube page won’t let you embed.) Musically not my thing but notice the retro, Vietnam-era touches. So maybe the country-Western establishment hasn’t grown the stones to make a commentary on the futility of the present war yet. Still, it does give some degree of fair warning to young would-be brides and grooms. I’ll take what I can get. And/or her audience can learn about Johnny Cash.
• Different generations of American Jewish humour.