Breakfast Links

Thomas Sowell penned a great article. Yesterday, I mentioned that we need to end ag subsidies. Sowell goes deeper.

Walt Williams echoes Professor Sowell.

Hey look, China’s banks need some capital.

Peter Roskam is not a fan of Obama’s budget proposal.

A hacker has gotten into a WordPress source code.

Obama’s speech was so boring yesterday Joe Biden fell asleep.

This isn’t boring.  That $38 Billion dollar budget deal, actual cuts, $352 million. The Republicans lost this round, badly. Speaker Boehner is trying to save face. Only way to save face is win the budget fight, which means winning the 2012 elections, big.

Should free trade losers be compensated?  Interesting economic question.

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Got some wine delivered yesterday from A. Rafanelli.  I have been on the list since the early 1990′s.  If you like wine, here is a great source for Pinot and Chardonnay.

This exhibit on American Jews at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans is ending soon.

On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Lincoln once said, “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”. I don’t think Obama heard the people in November 2010. Let’s make sure he hears loud and clear in November 2012.

It’s Thursday

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