It's finally here; First Anniversary Edition of Carnival of the Liberals (CotL). Once again the editor was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of quality writing from a liberal perspective. Even though they limit CotL to only ten essays, they received more than 40 submissions to choose from for CotL #27, so making a decision on which 10 to link to was not easy . In the end, the editor decided to go with essays that touched on big picture issues in one way or another.