*Trading Freedom for Comfort, by Matt Patterson.

“While Iranians are fighting and dying in the streets for freedom from the tyrant’s boot, Americans and Europeans want, and are promised by pliant politicians, freedom from failure, freedom from uncertainty, freedom from want.

But only the dead know the end of these things, and governments that so promise in the end deliver only freedom from life.”

*One more piece of the Constitution under the bus. 

*Behind the Times: There’s nothing cool about Obama, by Mark Steyn.

*Passing Unread Laws, at the Washington Times.

*Obama: Student Radical, by Andrew McCarthy.

*How Nations Rot, by John Derbyshire.

*Are the Saudi’s giving Israel the thumbs up to thump Iran?  The Times of London thinks so.

*Our Chrysalis Stage, by Victor Davis Hanson.

*The End of Independence Day?  By Mary Grabar.

*California’s Nightmare Will Be the Death of Obamanomics, by Kevin Hassett.

“The federal picture is so bleak because the Obama administration is the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of the U.S. I would imagine that he would be the intergalactic champion as well, if we could gather the data on deficits on other worlds.”

*A Garden of Piggish Delights: 50 Reasons to stop Cap-and-Trade, at NRO.

*A Thugs Primer, by Victor Davis Hanson.

-QC-