Links from the weekend and today

Finally had some spare time this weekend between playoff hockey games (Go Sabres!) to finish "House of Cards" by William D. Cohan. Opinion above.

• Tax Relief, Obama Style

• Denying Shakespeare

• The public choice economics of spending cuts (Tyler Cohen about Canada)

• Can the Elites Save the United States (Arnold Kling rebuttal of Tyler Cohen)

• Canada's Road to Balanced Budgets (David Henderson's two cents on Mr. Cohen and Kling)

• 5 reasons why the Tea Partiers are right on taxes

• The perils of the value-added tax (George F. Will)

• Drunk-Driving Deaths Are Way Down, But... (Another article that proves my point that life is not priceless)

• Americans Are More Skeptical of Washington Than Ever

• Congress vs. Honduran Democrats (It is just silly that we cannot get this one right)

• Back to a Better Normal: Unemployment and Growth in the Wake of the Great Recession (Christina Romer)

• Christina Romer vrs. the bloggers (Arnold Kling's response to Christina Romer)

• Is current unemployment all about aggregate demand? (Tyler Cohen's two cents on Ms. Romer and Mr. Kling.)