IN THE MAIL: From Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen, Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System. I’m reading this now. Great book.

PJTV: Minority Report: Deroy Murdock, The Reagan Revolution and the Forbes Flat Tax.

THE GERMAN MIRACLE: Germany has cut government spending and its economy is growing smartly. It’s not the first time that market-friendly policies have led the nation out of crisis.

In the following weeks Erhard removed most of the Bizone’s remaining price controls, wage controls, allocation edicts and rationing directives. The effects of decontrol were dramatic.

The shortages ended, black markets disappeared, and Germany’s recovery began. Buying and selling with Deutsche marks replaced barter. Observers remarked that almost overnight the factories began to belch smoke, delivery trucks crowded the streets, and the noise of construction crews clattered throughout the cities.

The remarkable success of the reforms made them irreversible. A few months later the French zone followed suit. The Allied authorities went on to lower tax rates substantially.

Between June and December of 1948, industrial production in the three Western zones increased by an astounding 50%. In May 1949 the three zones were merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly called West Germany, while East Germany remained under Soviet domination as the German Democratic Republic.

Read the whole thing.

THE CHRONICLES OF A gay libertarian survivalist.

NOT SUCH AN UNCOMMON MOVE: From Fourth-Tier Law School Grad to Millionaire.

IN INDIANAPOLIS, it’s autoworkers vs. autoworkers.

COINCIDENCE? “I THINK NOT!”

SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION: $1.3 Trillion in Broken Spending Data.

TSA ATTACKS PHOTOGRAPHERS INSTEAD OF TERRORISTS. “What should we find suspicious about the figure in the picture? That’s he’s carrying a camera near an airport? Maybe it’s the hoodie. But then maybe it’s cold outside. Point is, TSA is putting in our heads that photographers are people we ought to view with suspicion.”

How about sending them a copy of this article?

LAW CLERK IDEOLOGY and the principal-agent problem.

LIST: Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, So Far.

REASON TV: Anchor Brewing Company – A conversation with craft beer pioneer Fritz Maytag.

DO YOU THINK? “The ongoing increases in college tuition and fees make the housing price bubble seem pretty tame by comparison, and we should therefore be very concerned about the possibility that we might now be facing an unsustainable higher education bubble.” If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Selective Enforcement At Obama’s Justice Department.

INTRODUCING the Student Free Press Association. (Bumped).

CHANGE: State Budget Crises Mount as Medicaid Rolls Soar.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: Those damned capitalists are still here!

ROBERT HIGGS: More Government ‘Stimulus’ Will Ensure Protracted Economic Stagnation.

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: There Really Is Something Rotten In The Justice Department. “It’s too bad that a private citizen has to carry out the responsibility of the Justice Department because it has failed to do so and, in fact, refuses to do so for ideological and political reasons that have nothing to do with the impartial administration of justice.”

BUBBLE, BUBBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE: There Are Now Enough Vacant Properties In China To House Over Half Of America.

MAN DEFENDS HOME FROM GANG, is arrested by police.

TIM CARNEY: Credit card regulation: Big government vs. small business.

ACTUALLY, MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS, “THAT MANY?” Gallup: Just 1/3 Of Americans Approve Of The Job Either Party Is Doing. “A new Gallup Poll out this morning finds barely one-in-three Americans approves of the job being done in Congress by either party — 32% approval for Republicans and 33% for Democrats.”

COMING SOON: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel?

ALEX KNEPPER: FRIENDLY ADVICE TO THE WHINER-IN-CHIEF.