Wednesday Morning Link Orgy

• Nothing sketchy about Rep. Steve Buyer ... nothing at all.

• Christopher Hitchens on Monty Python.

• The coming economic culture war.

• The lessons of Communism.

• What the Russians can teach us about oil dependency.

• The Club for Growth is on a mission to render the GOP utterly useless.

• "The USS New York, built with tonnes of steel salvaged from the World Trade Centre towers, began its journey to New York today after undocking from a New Orleans-area shipyard."