Link blag

ShadowGov: Is Obama getting rolled by the U.S. military? Not really, he's taking into account their advice but also postponing dealing with them.

Greg Mankiw: Long-term fiscal strategy at the White House is based on wishful thinking.  In sum, we traded a wishful thinking foreign policy for a wishful thinking economic one.  What joy.  At least we're catching up with the 20th century on social issues and associated science.

OpenMarket: Stimulus starts trade war.

NYT, Dept. of lagging indicators: Mexican emigration is down.

WSJ: British Parliament pay scandal.

Bald dollars. Lots of garbage.

Ten reasons to not fuck with a libertarian. 'Tis good to laugh at oneself, I say.

(incidentally, though, as should be obvious the reason most skeptic dudes trend libertarian is because we apply the same skepticism to gov't.  And given how badly the state tends to foul things up, that makes us want less of it.)