- Gene Healy on today’s election in Massachusetts: “If Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts special election Tuesday, the Bay State will have its first GOP senator since the era when disco was king. And Brown will have the much‐derided Tea Party legions to thank.”
- Why opportunistic politicians need to stop using times of crisis for their own ends and let the next one go to waste.
- George W. Obama? “Bush’s successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush‐Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we’ve signed.”
- Can Google beat China? Cato’s Timothy B. Lee tackles the question in The New York Times Online.
- Podcast: “Our America Initiative” featuring former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. Johnson discusses out of control government spending, immigration, the Bush years, the drug war, defense policy and more.