The Freeway to Serfdom
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." - P.J. O'Rourke
Yes We Can! [conscript your ass]
"an unfortunate direction for the new administration" is slight understatement coming from the Examiner Civil Liberties blog, which details the new Chief of Staff's views on
compulsory community service. Shit, dude are the Obama youth going to have to move
en masse to BC if they want to stay out of inner-city war zones?
More analysis on Barack's god-like
supply-curve inversion prowess and
ersatz revenue extractions over at Coyote Blog.
[link via
Lew]