President’s Day is Monday. Here’s a look at chief executives past and present from around the libertysphere:
James Bovard notes that Lincoln’s 200th birthday tomorrow is no cause to celebrate.
Russell Roberts points to an excellent NYT piece that demonstrates just how adept a politician Kennedy was.
Kennedy also waited to sign the Cuban embargo legislation until he had enough cigars to last him for awhile, as David Beito reminds us.
Will Wilkinson homes in on Obama’s paradox of fear: we must be frightened enough of recession to pass the stimulus in order to restore confidence.
But Obama’s would like us to think that his hands are tied on the stimulus, according to Jacob Sullum.
Radley Balko points out that Obama sounds more like Bush in his administration’s first state secrets case.
David Rittgers of Cato weighs in on the state secrets case as well.
David Henderson asks if, maybe, just maybe, Obama is beginning to question his own certainty on the stimulus.
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