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Weekend links

Published October 14, 2017 1:37 pm by Claire

Why did the left go nuts when Trump obeyed the law on Obamacare?

Although this article manages to sling the usual mainstream insults, there’s no question: Art Robinson and his family do fascinating science.

Clayton Cramer — whose research was instrumental in busting lying anti-gun “historian” Michael Bellesiles — is writing a book on mass murder in America and would like reader comments.

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The sale is on at Paladin Press

Published October 12, 2017 5:11 pm by Claire

Just got home from a day away. I learned that the Paladin Press close-out sale started last night. Fifty-five percent off on everything. They’re apparently going gangbusters. For those interested in my books, last I heard they had 53 copies of The Freedom Outlaws Handbook and 25 of The Bad Attitude Guide to Good Citizenship. I decided not to use my author’s prerogative to buy any of those copies. I have zero of either book. So if you want the originals, get ’em while you can from Paladin. At some point, I’ll likely be republishing TFOH with the help of…

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Weekend links

Published October 7, 2017 6:05 pm by Claire

Poo widdle Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Desperately signaling his “progressive” virtues while running off to “get treatment” for being a jerk to women (and everybody else).

Personally, though, I hope his movie company doesn’t collapse. ‘Cause while that man may be an anti-gun suck and the biggest a*hole ever, he truly does have a magic touch when it comes to choosing films.

Where the NRA caves, once again Ohioans for Concealed Carry stands on principle (and on genuine common sense).

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Friday links

Published September 29, 2017 11:02 am by Claire

No kidding. People who buy from legal cannabis stores make more visits to fast-food joints. (Is there anything somebody won’t conduct a study on?)

Yeah, tell us what we already know (but do it with graphs). The millions who feel left behind by the “recovery” were actually left behind by the “recovery.”

Using stored (treated) gas after five years? It’ll be interesting to learn the outcome of this experiment.

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Thursday links

Published September 28, 2017 11:15 am by Claire

The right to be wrong. One of the key beliefs on which western freedoms are built.

New Equifax CEO makes noises as if he’s really sorry (his company’s stock has taken a giant dump) and intends to take real steps to salvage relations with the abused public. It’s something.

Does it really take returning to 1950s technology? I hope not. But stranger things have happened (like security-conscious nerds tippy-tapping on typewriters).

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Midweek links

Published September 26, 2017 7:12 pm by Claire

Cops across the land can celebrate this milestone. The “non-lethal” Taser has now been implicated in over 1,000 deaths. (Each and every one of them, of course, is an anomaly, nothing to do with tasing at all, and besides all the dead no doubt got what was coming to them.)

The madness of driverless cars. (Especially given the present state of “security.”)

Wonder if a notice like this one would give SWAT cops pause — or merely encourage them to come in with guns already blazing?

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Bad news, bad news, good news

Published September 26, 2017 1:44 am by Claire

The first bad news was when Peder Lund, owner of Paladin Press died suddenly in June. The second bad news — the second shoe dropping — came this weekend when I learned that Paladin would be closing its doors after 47 years. Their last day of operation will be December 31. I’m a Paladin author. They picked up my titles from Loompanics when Mike Hoy decided to close shop, and later Peder commissioned one more book from me (an election-season tome, mostly consisting of article reprints). It’s incredibly sad that Paladin and Loompanics, two of the country’s more daring, unconventional…

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Monday links

Published September 18, 2017 1:43 am by Claire

She moved from a blue state to a sort of reddish one and had her eyes opened — both about her new home and the prejudices of the people she left behind.

Ha. Remember the monkey selfie case that PETA just settled? A lawyer who crusades against bad settlements submits a hilarious brief pointing out that PETA has no standing to settle on the monkey’s behalf.

That new “liberal” pope has been anything but liberal — or transparent or different than recent old popes — when it comes to priests who sexualize kiddies.

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Weekend links

Published September 16, 2017 7:03 am by Claire

Who gets to decide what speech is acceptable?

Late-life star and darling of the Brat Pack, Harry Dean Stanton has died.

Those hackers entered Equifax’s system through a vulnerability for which a patch had been available for two months.

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Tuesday links

Published September 12, 2017 2:57 pm by Claire

Equifax already faces at least 23 class-action lawsuits for its shameless handling of “cuckstomer” data. Even though I know lawyers are the chief beneficiaries of these things, in this case: more power to ’em.

Edward Snowden and Andrew “bunnie” Huang have designed a hardware device to monitor your iPhone against surveillance.

Could Father Mykal Judge become the first gay saint? (Well no. Odds are there have been gay saints who never got outed. But Mykal Judge was a good man and I hope he makes the grade. At the rate the last couple of popes have been churning out saints, several dogs I know should probably make the grade. And hey, St. Guinefort the Greyhound gets a mention in the linked article, though not by name.)

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