The American Spectator

The Spectacle Blog

• United States banana republic watch (Washington Post)

• The way the world really works (Cafe Hayek)

• Niall Ferguson looks at deregulation and historical financial crises (NY Times)

• Sinise 2012 -- jump on the bandwagon now or be out of fashion later (Red State)

• If Obama really wanted what was best for the country he would just never wear a shirt (Cato@Liberty)

• There are 4,700 words on the new Warren Buffett biography by Michael Lewis, if you want them (The New Republic)