Roger Kimball calls Robert Mueller a fanatic, wants him shut down NOW

Here.

Goodbye libertarian moment, we hardly knew thee: "Man has a proclivity for safety, not liberty"

James E. Miller at Takimag, here:

Man has a proclivity for safety, not liberty. Human history is littered with war after war, conflict after conflict. Whatever liberty we eke out of our constant warring state is always in danger of being lost. As philosopher John Gray noted, “To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.”

As the ancients maintained but we never seem to remember, even when we study them:

WAR IS THE FATHER OF EVERYTHING.

Christopher Buckley can go eff himself (practice makes perfect)

Here:

If it does come down next November to Trump vs Clinton we will — all of us — be presented with a choice even the great Hobson could not have imagined. And those of us who would sooner leap into an active, bubbling volcano than vote for Mr Trump will have to try to convince ourselves that really, she’s not that bad. Is she?

Sweden Cuts Taxes and Spending, Wipes out Deficit, Achieves Highest Growth in Europe

All thanks to a conservative government with a libertarian finance minister with an earring and a ponytail:

‘Look at Spain, Portugal or the UK, whose governments were arguing for large temporary stimulus,’ [Anders Borg] says. ‘Well, we can see that very little of the stimulus went to the economy. But they are stuck with the debt.’ Tax-cutting Sweden, by contrast, had the fastest growth in Europe last year, when it also celebrated the abolition of its deficit. The recovery started just in time for the 2010 Swedish election, in which the Conservatives were re-elected for the first time in history. ...

His main advice to [the UK] is: ‘Keep on dealing with the deficit, because deficits destroy everything else.’

[O]n Reinfeldt’s 45th birthday, Borg presented him with a graph showing Sweden’s tax-to-GDP ratio dipping under the 45 per cent mark for the first time in decades.

Read the whole story here at the UK Spectator.