Today's links

• From Cracked: five weapon myths you probably believe thanks to movies.
• Five about the military.
• From LRC: vote for liberty by not voting. It’s between that and Gary Johnson this year.
• From RR: how a Free Republic of North America might work.
• From Steve Sailer: I think the overclass is reasonably pleased with how things are going, especially how the triumph of globalist and diversitarian ideology allows them to push policies cutting themselves free from the broader fate of the American people. Thus, the Big Money swings back and forth between Obama and Romney and Obama. If you are on the Forbes 400, it’s all good. A country can only support so many people and citizens come first, but what about the right to move to another country to work?
• From MCJ: what was a gallon of gas when Barack Obama was immaculated? A buck eighty-eight?
• From Ad Orientem: a gentleman of the left is dying. George McGovern.
• From Sully: America’s longest war, which only frozen-out candidates Ron Paul and Gary Johnson want to end.
• From the Anti-Gnostic: Feminism is a cudgel wielded with great success by women in the upper percentiles of intelligence and/or attractiveness. It gets them access to upper-percentile men or creates sinecures which would otherwise not exist in a viable society. Less intelligent and/or less attractive women – don’t try this at home.
• Pat Buchanan at antiwar.com: behind the Benghazi coverup.
• The Bovina Bloviator on Hillary Clinton’s apparent break with the administration: This has to be at the behest of Secretary Clinton, no doubt after counsel with her husband. Time is catching up with Hilary; she's got one last stab at the presidency in 2016 and the last thing she needs is to be dragged down with the spiraling Obama Administration. Since, however, the State Department also has a lot to answer for in this debacle, she may not be spared.
• From Takimag: is Scottish independence possible and would it matter? In other words, without the UK (if Scotland keeps the British pound it’s not really independent) or EU (euro) or US really running it, could Scotland make it as an independent country?