From RR

• America’s two parties are a hand-puppet show: Laura Bush praises Obama.
• How do you says Lebensraum in modern Hebrew? Israel issues settlement permits in occupied West Bank.
• Charity: American soldiers stormed Afghan hospital. Why aren’t the Obama-lovers, many of whom loved ‘M*A*S*H’, raising a stink?
• Some American RC bishops are venturing off their social-gospel (socialism minus abortion) reservaton and questioning Obamacare in principle.
• Freedom means not only choice but responsibility. Part of the answer to Christians like Mark Shea (right on torture and the rubber-hose right; wrong on this).
• Mission creepy. Soldiers as local cops.
• We’d hardly know a leader if we saw one. Bye, Ted. If you’re lucky Mary Jo Kopechne is praying for your soul. Of course the real leaders the writer names would have disowned a leader cult around them.
• Is America ready to drop the stupid War on Drugs?
• Libertarian positions on capital punishment. I’m with the Pope: some crimes forfeit your right to live and there is a very limited place for this.
• From 1944 to 1984. I read the book that year and it planted some of the seeds of this blog. But it seems that Hayek was better.
• LRC pick: Why Obama’s address to schoolchildren is objectionable.
• An evening with Cindy Sheehan to whom I sent an e-mail of support years ago and got a thank-you.
• Begging for billionaires.
• Expand the torture inquiry.
• Cruel to be kind. Don’t forget Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas the way Mary Jo Kopechne has gone into the memory hole.