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Thursday links

Published November 17, 2016 9:03 am by Claire

More on the highly instructive government-caused chaos in India. A report from a freedomista on the scene (H/T BillT in comments). And will gold importation, as well as bills, be banned? India’s economy is lurching to a standstill. There is panic, despair, and real danger of death over an arbitrary decision whose consequences any sensible person could have seen. But now, with Modi having “broken Indians’ legs,” the government is helpfully offering a crutch.

American life expectancy is falling as Russia’s fell after the Soviet collapse — and for similar reasons. But the fedgov will not take one of the simplest, most rational steps to ease the suffering.

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Midweek links

Published November 16, 2016 11:20 am by Claire

Did anybody here think the MSM really meant all those editorials about how they were going to be more politically unbiased from now on? Here’s USA Today defining the entire alt-right movement as “espousing white nationalism.” And here’s Alan Dershowitz having to point out that Steve Bannon is no anti-Semite. I’m not fond of either the alt-right or Bannon. But get real, media. Get real. Your life depends on it.

And they ask — they seriously ask! — “Will America Now Have a Pravda?” No, you willfully blind jackasses: America has had a Pravda and an Izvestia for many years now.

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Tuesday links

Published November 15, 2016 5:30 am by Claire

Chelsea Manning has asked Obama to cut her ghastly sentence to time served. Good luck, Chelsea.

Larry Correia writes a guide for liberals who are suddenly interested in gun ownership.

The whimpering “safe space” infants aren’t only on college campuses. Andrew Torba, founder of Gab.ai has been banned from the directory and community of the famous venture capital outfit Y Combinator because his very existence makes people feel “unsafe.”

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Weekend links

Published October 9, 2016 10:32 am by Claire

Another example of history rhyming. Until new polls come out, we can’t know (and actually we can’t know until the v*tes are counted, assuming — yeah, big assumption — that they’re counted honestly), but the very smart Nate Silver examines whether Trump is really torpedoed this time. Unlike all the other times the media predicted his electoral demise. OTOH, Clinton, Comey and company would be in far worse trouble in a just world. Five times evolution “ran backward.” This is only one small example of how self-driving cars will spy on their occupants. But in the good news department, a…

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Monday links

Published October 3, 2016 1:39 am by Claire

Can CRISPR-Cas9, the new genetic modification tool whose works are soon to make their way onto our grocery store shelves, also increase human intelligence? And in the name of (gods forbid) eugenics, should it be used to do so? (H/T PT)

Twenty-one signs you’re (already) mentally stronger than average.

Vin Suprynowicz: an election about immigration … and guns.

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Weekend links

Published October 1, 2016 1:21 am by Claire

University of Michigan offers students the opportunity to designate their “personal pronoun” of choice to avoid giving offense to the whatever-gendered. One student selects “Your Majesty.”

Not only does another major newspaper endorse Gary Johnson, but the editorial is pretty awesome.

OTOH, A.B. Stoddard thinks Johnson is such a stumblebum — and yet such a threat in a four-way race — that Hillary should offer William Weld a cabinet position in hopes of luring would-be LP voters to her campaign. (Yup, this whole election cycle is even sicker than we thought.)

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Midweek links

Published September 21, 2016 1:45 am by Claire

One failing college turns its football field into a farm — and teaches students something about real life and real markets.

Funny how the MSM relentlessly identified this guy as an “off-duty cop.” ‘Cause otherwise, as a highly trained armed citizen he’d upset their tidy little profile.

Always expected. Now it’s happened. Hackers can remotely control Teslas.

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Weekend links

Published September 3, 2016 7:34 am by Claire

“Anti-think” abounds among social justice pecksniffs. Particularly on the question of arms and the safety of politically correct minorities.

One of my personal heroes, Giordano Bruno, was the very model of a Freedom Outlaw Agitator. Not the most prudent guy ever born. Bit of a suckup to powerful patrons; but that’s the way it was back then.

Wow. We’re fast approaching a milestone (not) to celebrate. Government employees in the U.S. now outnumber manufacturing employees by a figure that’s pushing 10 million. (The article calls them workers (sic).)

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Vin Suprynowicz on “tolerance”

Published August 16, 2016 9:41 am by Claire

Are there no limits to what we must “tolerate”? Trigger warning: Some of you will like this a lot and agree with it; some of you will deplore it. A middle ground will read and consider the future.

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