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Pentagon official calls for corporate boycott of law firms that defend Constitutional rights. He goes on to falsely insinuate that such law firms are "receiving moneys from who knows where", and demands that they "explain that." Somewhere, Joe McCarthy, Joseph Goebbels, Maximilien Robespierre, and other advocates of government through intimidation and insinuation are nodding approvingly.

Meanwhile, Reason associate editor David Weigel opines in the LA Times about a recent spate of right-wing futuristic thrillers. Look out! If those dirty libruls have their way, President Chelsea Clinton and Vice President Michael Moore will fete Osama bin Ladin in the White House while sharia law is imposed on American citizens and heroic conservative talkshow hosts are driven into hiding! Or, more positively, perhaps a righteous conservative president will nuke Baghdad and go to war against Iran and Russia in order to "fulfill Scripture."

But not to worry. Business is going just fine back home, as American citizens follow Fearless Leader's advice to fight the War on Terra by going shopping on credit, at 30% interest. Perhaps someday soon we will see a return to that good old fashioned Protestant work ethic, as embodied in debtors' prisons?