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• Position: Letter to the editor

"I work for a corporation with 40-something-thousand employees. We have marketing, sales, operations, logistics, production, finance, R&D, legal, H.R., and thousands of customer service employees. I cannot imagine what the Commerce does with 42,000 employees. Would anyone engaging in actual commerce notice if all of them were fired tomorrow? Some would miss the Patent Office, the rest wouldn't be noticed."

--reason .com commenter "Drake," in response to "Stifling Commerce" (May)

"I'm glad that the sober policy wonk side of libertarianism still has some life in it, in contradistinction to the hipster utopian conspiracist side."

--Kenneth Silber, Quicksilber blog, in response to "Port Authoritarians" (May)

"The progressive puritans of the Pat-Robertson-in-Birkenstocks branch of feminism were very much in evidence at least as far back as the eighties. By...