Last Sunday night, police
in Morganton, North Carolina shot and killed 17-year-old Michael
Sipes. The officers were responding to a noise complaint called in
by a neighbor in the mobile home park where Sipes lived. His mother
says there were three children in the home on the night Sipes was
killed, and were likely he source of the complaint.

Only time will tell if Operation Iraqi Freedom
was a blunder, writes Cathy Young. But it is not too early to say
that Americans are not the villains in this story. As Young
explains, that role belongs to the dictator who drove so many of
his subjects to welcome a foreign invasion, and to the extremists
who unleashed carnage on their own. View this article.

In today's Washington
Post, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil
Liberties Union, and Vincent Warren, executive director of the
Center for Constitutional Rights,
explain why their groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the
Obama administration's policy of "targeted killing" for suspected
terrorists.

Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment
Heavyweight Champion "Kane" is a big fat libertarian? Did you know
that there was such a thing as the WWE? In any case, it's Friday,
so let's let the big man talk, care of the
Baltimore Sun:

If the learner made an error, the teacher would administer an electric shock to the learner by remote control, pressing a button on a control console. Each electric shock administered would be stronger than the one before. FULL ARTICLE by Jeff RiggenbachJoin the discussion and post a comment

* Late reviews of Carly
Fiorina/Barbara Boxer debate: Sac Bee's Dan Walters

says Boxer won. OC Register's Brian Joseph calls the
whole debate a "dud"
and a "letdown," while 58 percent of Register readers give
the win to Carly in a web poll.

Few essays attracted as much
attention from right-wing readers this summer as "America's Ruling
Class—and the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo Codevilla. Now that
very long article has been expanded into a very brief book, called
The Ruling Class. The book is an instructive document for
anyone interested in the state of the American right, writes
Managing Editor Jesse Walker: Codevilla tries to combine
conservative cultural complaints with the libertarian case against
an intrusive central government.

In a debate between Ezra Klein
and Reihan Salam about the desirability of regulations requiring
employers to give workers paid vacation, Klein
writes:

Broadly speaking, employees with the power to demand more paid
vacation do so, and employees without the power to demand more paid
vacation get less—or in some cases, no—paid vacation. A law
guaranteeing paid vacation would primarily tilt the playing field
toward low-income workers, rather than against them, as is the case
now.