corner.nationalreview.com - 11/21/2008
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Glenn Reynolds on why butter's a bigger threat than guns. An excerpt:
Now we've had over five years of war in Iraq, finally winding toward a successful conclusion, and in the process have spent a lot of money and made some changes in the law. But the changes in the law are promised to be ...
online.wsj.com - 11/20/2008
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online.wsj.com —
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is facing an
early confrontation with the Pentagon over the hot-button issue...
of how fast to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, with some senior officers arguing for a slower drawdown. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman ...
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Pentagon Wary of Fast Iraq Withdrawal
change.gov - 11/19/2008
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change.gov —
The Obama-Biden Plan Barack Obama and Joe Biden
will responsibly end the war in Iraq so that...
we can renew our military strength, dedicate more resources to the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and invest in our economy at home. ...
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Iraq | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
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... , who points that wars are at least tempered by public opinion. Periods of war have traditionally brought new liberal policies granting rights for women and minorities, The Corner’s Jonah Goldberg adds. Bloggers, some of who attended Mukasey’s speech last night, report on what happened while offering prayers and best wishes. Mukasey collapsed not long after a heckler called him a tyrant, The Corner’s ...
Jonah Goldberg on opportunity costs
SCSUScholars —
The problem with guns is that we pay for them with butter.Yes, of course we do; we draw that graph in principles still. That's not a problem but reality. Goldberg is commenting, by the way, on Glenn Reynolds' discovery of Wagner's Law. That is not generally very well received in the public finance literature, yet tests of it persist in journals to this day.
Happiness is a Warm Gun, Part 437
If I Ran the Zoo —
Shorter Ol' Perfesser: "That government is best that kills most." Update: Pantload weighs in here. Money shot: But this is a very thorny argument and I've got a very busy morning. So I'll just reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks.
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