Links and Minifeatures 07 10 Monday

RINO Sightings Recommended: Armies of Liberation (the possibility for a freely elected government in Yemen)



Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Experiments in Finance ("How I learned to care about economics")



Carnival of Capitalists Recommended: Liberty Papers (market distortions due to land use regulation)

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This is intelligent and worthwhile. TTLB is trying to motivate some folks to set up a system to deal with DDOS attacks. I have no idea of the technical issues, but I like the idea of anyone who is the subject of one being able to metaphorically thumb their nose at the attackers.



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Judge: FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Legal. No kidding. This was obvious to anybody who could read the Constitution. Except maybe congresscritters. Although I'm not certain they can.



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Iraq the Model on the situation for Iraqis in Baghdad.



I think their central government better get hopping to do something about this. If it takes soldiers on every corner to enforce the peace, that's what it takes. A country that allows its citizens to be intimidated like this is on the ropes.



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Dr. Sanity has a long article about child rearing that may open some eyes.



She missed, however, the compare and contrast with standard leftist american ideologies such as Why mommy is a Democrat, and Friends don't let friends vote Republican. Maybe it's because I'm right of center and most of my social friends are pretty left-wing, but the vast majority of what I see aimed at delegitimizing, denigrating, and dehumanizing one's political opponents is aimed from left to right. Perhaps I'm just more sensitive to stuff aimed from left to right. I certainly have no problem finding rightwing delegitimization of the left when I go looking for it, yet the vast majority of what I come across on daily websurfing and in personal conversations is aimed from the left at the right. Perhaps it's just that I try to go looking for opposing viewpoints, and I'm certainly not attracted to those sites that, IMHO, make a habit of known kneejerking. But it seems that 95% of the time when I encounter a partisan behaving badly, it's a leftwinger. This is even more lopsided than the ratio in the other direction was when I was much younger in the early 1970s.



It's gotten to the point where it's so "Dog bites Man," that I just don't want to hear about moonbats behaving badly any longer. I know all about Kosola and Frisch Fraying On The Fringe. I'm tired of reading the same nonsense over and over and over. Maybe if we just start ignoring them when they go over the line, they'll realize they won't get publicity (which is what they want) and stop. In short, I used to be disgusted. Now I'm just annoyed enough to change the channel. Not that I advocate giving them a free pass if they do anything actionable. But like the class clown out for attention, if you just pretend to ignore them, they'll modify their behavior until they're worth paying attention to again.



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Michael Barone on the Mexican elections. Informative as always, showing the electoral faultlines comparable to those in the United States.



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Captain's Quarters has some analysis on the Israel-Palestine situation that has been said roughly ten billion times before, with the difference that now it seems to be picking up a critical mass of adherents. The world may finally have seen enough evidence of the pathological state of Palestinian politics to be prepared to support necessary Israeli countermeasures.



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Regime Change Iran on Mohammed Al-Baradei and his hook up with Tehran.



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Siflay Hraka on why the NutRoots™ has gone so overboard against Lieberman. You'd think with a 0-21 record they must be getting desperate for a big, provable win. You'd be right. Let's hope for one more swing and a miss from them in a manner that cannot be denied, and maybe we can get back to occasionally constructive dialog.



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