Mubarak quits. That’s the news, folks. I’m not sure anything else comes close to this. The next big question really is what the US Federal Government will do. They propped up Mubarak for years, and Suleiman is the US-hand-picked VP and likely successor. Sheesh, are all of our supposed “leaders” just psychopaths in disguise? For more information about events in Egypt I recommend reading AntiWar.com’s series: click here, here,  and here.

LewRockwell.com has a great podcast with Eric Margolis on the Egyptian events here.

Check these protest signs from Egypt.

Oh yeah, and it is the tyrant Abraham Lincoln’s birthday today. Let’s celebrate by remembering that his fabled “last pardon” of deserters was a forgery.

And this was definitely my favorite comic of the week:

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News of the Week: Egypt throws the blokes out

In a stupendous example of how IP clogs up the works, the Authors Guild, an advocacy group for writers, is claiming that Amazon’s Kindle 2 is breaking copyright law with its new text-to-speech feature. Their director is quoted as saying: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud. That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” So mother, you reading aloud to us as kids makes you a criminal. Okay, not really, but read more about this bizarro situation here.

You know that there is a big problem in America when Vladimir Putin warns us that we might be getting a little too, what’s the word, socialistic?

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

Thomas DiLorenzo reviews the book of a scholar who has come clean about Emperor Lincoln.

Marvel’s 2006 book, Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, says this on the inside cover: “Marvel leads the reader inexorably to the conclusion that Lincoln not only missed opportunities to avoid war but actually fanned the flames – and often acted quite unconstitutionally in prosecuting the war once it had begun.” This is obviously not how to win another “Lincoln Prize.”

Lastly, let me encourage you to check out the brand-spanking new website of UT-Austin’s Libertarian Longhorns, a group I help run. It’s pretty spartan-looking right now, but I’m excited about the potential opportunities it will provide for growing the group.

Have a great weekend!

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Speedlinking Friday: Meltdown, Kindle, Putin, and Lincoln