In case any of you still don't know who Milton Friedman was and what he stood for, this Reason article does a very nice job of summarizing it. I watched a recent TV biography on him, which covered the incident of some wack Trostkyite disrupting his Nobel prize ceremony. I get insecure when people tell me I dress funny (which is to say, often), I can't imagine the strength of belief it must've took to keep plugging away under such extreme pressure to conform.

Being right helped a lot, of course.

Via Instapundit.

Oh, and as for all that "troops = mercenaries" crap being bandied about by the loony lefties:

One of [fellow economist and draft opponent William H.] Meckling's favorite stories, which his widow, Becky, recalled in a recent interview, was of an exchange between Mr. Friedman and General William Westmoreland, then commander of all U.S. troops in Vietnam. In his testimony before the commission, Mr. Westmoreland said he did not want to command an army of mercenaries. Mr. Friedman interrupted, "General, would you rather command an army of slaves?" Mr. Westmoreland replied, "I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves." Mr. Friedman then retorted, "I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries. If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general; we are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher."