3-24-2009

Glenn Reynolds: Mexican Drug Wars Now Worse Than Iraq. “The cartels’ ability to smuggle both guns and kidnap victims into Mexico has been facilitated by lax US border controls, although the Americans are starting to tighten up.” So instead of gun control, we might fix things by tightening up on the border? Hmm…

Little Green Footballs: It could be a scam, of course; but if not, Giesbrecht may be about to get a final lesson in “Islamic resistance” from the pros: Taliban Threaten to Behead Pro-Taliban Canadian ‘Journalist’.

Richard Fernandez: It’s fair to ask whether the supposed outrage over AIG bonuses did not have some beneficial value to making this argument. Although one hesitates to make the comparison with the Reichstag fire, it suggests itself. Perhaps the proposal has merits on its own, but I can’t see them; and even if they exist in principle, what about agency problem? Can anyone be trusted with so far reaching an authority?

Tom McGuire: “…the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade…Ms. Redding, an honors student, had no pills. But she had a furious mother and a lawyer, and now her case has reached the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 21”…I pity the fool trying to explain this to Scalia.

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