From RR

• We’re getting there, and to give Obama credit: there are now fewer than 50,000 soldiers in Iraq. The trouble is: Afghanistan, maybe Iran (Ron Paul: the good news is he hasn’t invaded; the bad is he might) and everywhere US soldiers are stationed abroad. One more time: this is a soldier; this is a troop.
• Not so fast: contractors.
• Good sign o’the times: politicians think appearing pro-gun will get votes.
• Yankees being practical: Mass. towns decriminalising pot.
• Prudes running Facebook on the same subject.
• Believing the state protects people from big biz is really naïve.
• Libertarians never should have allowed themselves to be associated as a movement with “the right” and we shouldn’t make the same mistake with “the left.” But we should all be willing to treat anybody with an interest in expanding liberty, if only in one area, as a potential ally.
• Glenn Beck is not a libertarian.
• Advice on how to debate with non-libertarians.
• Palin’s all media hype.
• P.J. goes to Afghanistan. His ’80s books are hilarious; met him once. Lew Rockwell: Although “libertarian” P.J. O’Rourke was funnier when he wrote for Rolling Stone, and made fun of people in US colonies, he is still funny as a neocon at the Weekly Standard, doing the same job. To his credit, he makes no bones about his alliance with CIA radio and the empire.
• Classical liberalism one and two
• California vs fiat (make-believe) money in 1865. The Legal Tender Act of 1862 allowed the US Treasury to print paper money that was backed only by the good faith of the US government.
• Separation of school and state. Reminds me of LRC’s John Taylor Gatto.