Breakfast Links: July 25, 2011

— As governor, Mitt Romney “changed the tax code to raise additional revenue that businesses saw as tax increases.”

— American right-wingers don’t care about terrorism unless it’s committed by Muslims.

— Americans Elect is the new Unity ’08.

— Testosterone can encourage pro-social behavior but people who think they’ve received extra testosterone behave anti-socially.

— “Civic virtue is one of those achievements like an English garden, where you have to start hundreds of years ago.”

— Daron Acemoglu and Ufuk Akcigit have an unusual (PDF) take on intellectual property.

— The Unbalanced Budget Amendment.

— Means-testing is the same as a marginal tax increase. This is especially easy to see if you think about Social Security.

— What would a legal marijuana industry look like?

— On Jennifer Rubin.

— Norway’s strict gun laws are easily evadable in practice.