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(Thanks to Scott Johnsson)

Though, unlike Lincoln, TR, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bush, etc., at least some of the first Chinese emperor's tax expenditures resulted in magnificent art. (Though the taxpayers of the time didn't get to to see his terra cotta army.) Watch the video.

Writes Bill Butler: "Comments from Dan Scott, Robert Beale's first attorney, on tax protesters and the government's true religion:
"'They all go to trial,' he said. 'They have a given belief system and are all incapable of admitting they are wrong. You hope to talk some out of it and tell them they will lose, that they will go to jail, but they never listen.'

"He said clients most often find their way into a tax crusade through failed farms, or religion.

"'Once they adopt it, it becomes a religion,' he said. 'If you don't agree with them, it's because you don't understand and you're attacking their religion. Then the government goes absolutely bananas for the same reason, because [the resisters] are attacking the government's religion -- taxes.'" Read the whole story.

"Abu Ghraib's a Moral Fig Leaf for the Disastrous Decision to Invade (and Other Wit n Wisdom of Linc Chafee)," from Phillip Weiss.

(Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City is based on New York. Thanks to Rast!)

As you may have noticed, Amazon.com has sold out of its copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto. In fact, many people are reporting that their local bookstores are sold out as well. However, the Mises bookstore still has copies in stock. Get them while you can.

The LRC people, that is. Here are the best-read articles for April and for last week, and the blog posts.

At the Maine Repuglican convention, or so says the Kennebec Journal.

Here is Frank Rich on McCain's minister-pal, the Rev. John Hagee. Hagee attempts to portray the Prince of Peace as a neocon who favors exterminating Arabs, Persians, and anyone else who disagrees with imperial domination in the Middle East.

Her building manager thinks so.