Good memorial for Milton Friedman, at NY Sun - good choice of pieces. (h/t, Powerline). One quote from a Friedman interview:
Government today controls something like 40% of the resources of the country. A decent government controls like 10% or 15%. The virtue is that government is so inefficient, it waste great bulk of those resources. If it used those resources efficiently, it could do great damage.
Who walks the walk? Conservatives care more about other people. A new book, via Sister Toldjah
"The little one has a big mouth." The Dixie Chicks sing I will never apologize. (h/t, Viking)
Quote from Steyn's new book America Alone, via Betsy, via Canada Free Press:
"Our enemies are small worms," Adolf Hitler told his generals in August 1939. "I saw them at Munich." In Europe today, as in the thirties, the political class prostrates itself before an insatiable force that barely acknowledges the latest surrender before moving on to the next invented grievance. Indeed, a formal enemy is all but superfluous to requirements. Bomb us, and we agonize over the "root causes." Decapitate us, and our politicians rush to the nearest mosque to declare that "Islam is a religion of peace." Issue bloodcurdling calls at Friday prayers to kill all the Jews and infidels, and we fret that it may cause a backlash against Muslims. Behead sodomites and mutilate female genitalia, and gay groups and feminist groups can't wait to march alongside you denouncing Bush and Blair. Murder a schoolful of children, and our scholars explain that to the "vast majority" of Muslims "jihad" is a harmless concept meaning "healthy-lifestyle low-fat granola bar." Thus the lopsided valse macabre of our times: the more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily round the room.
