Link blag

TMV: There are legal consequences to defining "life" (really, personhood) to begin at conception. Abortion opponents—particularly Republicans who support a Human Life Amendment—ought to consider the actual ramifications of their quixotic position.

Conor wonders how anyone can insist that Obama is a radical with ties to terrorists who wants to turn the country into a socialist dictatorship and that he should be asserting more executive power.

Daily Beast: Did Rumsfeld ruin Bush? A disturbing profile of what happened when at the highest levels we had an incompetent reporting to an ignoramus—and the reason people like Bush and Palin should never serve at such levels.

LA Times: Kuwait elects women.

Yglesias advocates free market sports.

NYT: Nick Gillespie wants to legalize and tax everything.

The Eiffel Tower at dusk.

Your tax dollars at work: The Social Security Administration has a very special announcement.