Welcome to the 40th weekly Carnival of Liberty! As always, the Carnival is full of amazing attractions with fun-filled adventure for the whole family.

This is the first time the Carnival has been here at Homeland Stupidity, and I have to say that the hardest part of hosting the Carnival was keeping all of these excellent posts hidden away until Tuesday. And now that they’re here, come one, come all, and enjoy the Carnival!

Defense

Spank That Donkey argues in Marines face uphill fight to keep BBs that it would be a mistake to convert the decommissioned battleships USS Wisconsin and USS Iowa into permanent museums, as they could help stave off nuclear war with China or North Korea.

Economy

At The Unrepentant Individual, Brad Warbiany talks about Outsourcing at Both Sides, showing how outsourcing is actually a good thing: it allows America to set its sights higher and remain a market leader.

And Spank That Donkey rants about World Socialists in Denial, suggesting that maybe the reason U.S. companies are sending jobs elsewhere is the socialist labor unions driving them out.

Speaking of leading markets, Matt Barr of New World Man writes about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission harassing the Lawry’s restaurant chain because it only hires female wait staff. Maybe they just don’t want to hire the kind of people who sue to get their way, he writes.

Brad Warbiany contributes again at The Liberty Papers, taking a look at Where Markets Beat Government — And Vice Versa, arguing that government should focus on what it does well and stay out of everything else.

And one thing the government should stay out of, according to Thomas Anger, is the economy. At Liberty Corner, he writes about The Causes of Economic Growth, seven of them in fact, and they all involve a lot less government.

From Tom Rants, Tom Hanna rants about The Most Important Political Agenda Item right now, more important than everything else, making the tax cuts permanent and building on them.

Education

Searchlight Crusade’s Dan Melson takes a long hard look at The State of Our Educational System and, not surprisingly, finds that the schools don’t teach what the students need to know.

Health Care

Trapier K. Michael of Hayek, MD asks, Who’s Afraid of Midwifery? In Indiana, licensing laws for midwives protect consumers from low health care costs and make them subject to the whims of the physicians’ guild.

Massachusetts Health Care

Last week, Massachusetts passed a bill requiring all residents to carry health insurance and paying for it for those who can’t afford it. People who choose not to carry health insurance will receive an income tax penalty, and businesses which do not offer health insurance will receive fines.

Ogre from Ogre’s Politics and Views puts the situation into its proper perspective, calling it More Anti-Freedom from Mass and showing how universal health care is morally wrong.

The Pubcrawler points out that Massachusetts health care costs will skyrocket under this plan, as insurance companies, subsidized by the state and no longer bound by market forces, lose their incentives to compete and to keep costs in check.

Immigration

On Monday, Ogre from Ogre’s Politics and Views live blogged the North Carolina Conservative Leadership Conference, and highlights Republican Congressman from Arizona J.D. Hayworth at the NCCLC who said that America is being invaded from the south.

Political Thought

Richard G. Combs Spouts Off about Patriotism, which he says is in short supply among libertarians, arguing that we’ve gained more liberty than we’ve lost, and that the American ideal and the American heritage are still worth celebrating.

Francois Tremblay from The Radical Libertarian takes a look at Class warfare, communism, corporatism, and capitalism, and finds that the oppressors are not the bourgeoisie, but the state.

At Police State USA, Michael Paladin writes Reflections Upon Treason and Traitors, asking if dissent is treason, or if maybe the real traitors are “heard in the very halls of government itself.”

NOTR proposes A 3-Step Program to Reform Congress at ROFASix. The program is simple, but perhaps not easy.

And now for something a bit different. Kenneth Gregg of CLASSical Liberalism is posting online The Science of Society by Stephen Pearl Andrews, an 1851 book which wasn’t very well received until it was reprinted decades later.

Property

We need to protect our rights to property, but we also need to actually be able to obtain property! Dan Melson from Searchlight Crusade has some suggestions on Helping Yourself Qualify for a Home Loan.

Terrorism

The Charlotte Capitalist’s Andy Clarkson is Celebrating the Moral and the Beautiful, eleven things we stand to lose if we cave to Islamist extremism by suppressing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.

World Affairs

Mensa Barbie Welcomes You and asks that you Support Freedom for Belarus by demanding sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko for arresting Christians.

Muse from Shiloh Musings muses about the misuse of language to confuse people into accepting ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel. What was that term the Nazis used for the same things going on now?

The other Reb Chaim HaQoton writes on Freedom and Torah Supremacy and finds that for Jews, true freedom is the ability to serve G-d in the way He intended.

That’s it for this week! Next week’s Carnival will be brought to you by Left Brain Female. See the schedule to follow the Carnival of Liberty or if you’re interested in hosting the Carnival.