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• Time on libertarians: “Republicans are far more likely to identify themselves as libertarians and to vilify the government in the abstract. And yet Republicans have a clearer vision of what constitutes a good society and a well-run planet and are quicker to try to impose this vision on the rest of us.”
• Apparently Iowa is the only place where the Hillary machine can be stopped. “Clinton has called Iowa her ‘hardest state,’ and it’s the best — some say only — chance her opponents have to get past her.”  Some people from the Hawkeye State aren’t that crazy about the female candidate.
• Meanwhile, Atrios wonders why Osama, er, Obama, is making an issue out of social security?
• The “Friends of Justice Thomas” are mad that his new book isn’t more popular.
• Where did all the water go?
• “Redaction” is a word we hear a lot of these days. But why would the Justice Department censor a quote from a Supreme Court decision?
• Glenn Greenwald: “A bizarre, unsolicited email from Gen. Petraeus’ spokesman,” the politicization of the military, and denials.
• From the AP: “Iraqi police say 10 sheiks allied against Al Qaeda have been kidnapped.”
• The Sunday puzzle from NPR’s Morning Edition: “Name something you might wear in the summer. The answer will have two words, with five letters in the first word and three letters in the second. Remove the next-to-last letter and read the result backward and you’ll get a word that means ‘blocks.’ What words are these?”
• Finally, a man named Craig: “A man was arrested after a government agent allegedly found him in an office building restroom lying next to an inflatable, anatomically correct doll with his pants down. Craig S. McCullough, 47, was charged Wednesday with indecent exposure, a misdemeanor.”

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