http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/12/03/bradley-manning-a-window-into-the-american-soul/

Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology–to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/12/03/their-proper-name/

http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed245.html

http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/new-liberty-now.html

http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/tyranny-of-the-majority.html

http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey140.html

http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo245.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/no-evidence-he-was-stoned-but-bank-of-america-ceo-brian-moynihan-apparently-doesn-t-remember-much-of-the-last-four-years-20121127?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

In the era whose secret he uncovered, a journalist’s office would have looked just like the one where Yang Jisheng works now. The tiled floor, the grimy window panes, the desk piled two feet high with papers, envelopes and books. The Mao-era radiators. The cigarette ash and the dust.

via BBC News – Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead.

So over the weekend I read All In, Paula Broadwell’s slobberific biography of General David Petraeus. It was nothing special, just a typically crappy piece of fawning, noncritical journalism, full of passages like the following:

via One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.