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Thursday links

Published July 26, 2018 5:55 am by Claire

I’m mystified by this week’s hullabaloo about Trump threatening to take over the Federal Reserve. He might make it “political”? But as Rothbard knew, few things are already as inherently political as the infamous Fed.

Murder-for-hire charges against Ross Ulbricht have been dropped. Bet most people who know he’s in prison think that’s what he was already convicted of.

That terrible question we always get: What would happen if the government didn’t handle X, Y, or Z?

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Tuesday links

Published July 24, 2018 6:50 am by Claire

The largest, most powerful gun-control organization does it again. (H/T RW)

Legalizing cannabis will … well, you just have to read it to probe the depths of the reefer madness.

John Lott on the end of gun control as we know it.

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Monday links

Published July 23, 2018 1:37 am by Claire

Four years after he murdered Eric Garner and cost the taxpayers of New York $5.9 million, Officer Daniel Pantaleo might finally get … an administrative sanction. Next year. Maybe.

Hahaha. Big Dem govs defend the rich (but only because the don’t want their high taxes to drive said wealthy folk out of state).

Now just wait’ll the Asians also start suing for racial discrimination.

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Thursday links

Published July 19, 2018 9:41 am by Claire

Americans’ deep, deep concern over Russia’s corruption of U.S. elections: 1% and falling.

On one street (of government-owned homes) in Detroit.

How come creepy ‘crats (or in this case their lawyers) always use that line about how [whatever thing they did] “doesn’t reflect who they are as a person”? What the heck else could it possibly reflect? Who their third cousin is? Who they are as a cockroach? Whot?

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Midweek links

Published July 18, 2018 9:05 am by Claire

Yay for artistic freedom! A Florida government has to make amends to a couple who painted their home to resemble Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”*

Should a woman with drugs in her system be prosecuted as a murderer for breastfeeding her baby?

Fighting back against FOSTA, the ridiculously broad new law that attacks both consensual sex workers and Internet freedom.

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Weekend links

Published July 14, 2018 6:58 pm by Claire

Wendy McElroy: “Does your money serve the state or you?”

Finally, an “expert” states what We the Peasants have known all along: Even the most innocuous-seeming law is ultimately enforced by violence, even unto death.

Cop who was given multiple breaks after killing an unarmed woman and bragging about it commits a double murder.

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Tuesday links

Published July 10, 2018 7:36 am by Claire

So the nominee is Kavanaugh and he’s a good Second Amendment guy (though not so good on other issues).

But the Supremes have helped destroy the concept of “consent of the governed.”

Urban desperation: Paying $650 a night to go “glamping” (glamor camping).

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A weekend ramble

Published July 7, 2018 5:17 pm by Claire

First, a thank you and an apology I’ve been having trouble keeping life and the universe together lately, putting me behind in some crucial communications. I’m a week overdue to say thank you to SK and D3 (who know why). So thank you, D3 and SK, and I apologize for my belatedness. I also owe quite a few emails, which I may still be a while getting to. Into the woods for berries While working on a prospective writing project today I got a last-minute invitation from Furrydoc to gather early-season ground-creeper blackberries. I usually wait until August for the…

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Thursday links

Published July 5, 2018 10:43 am by Claire

What happens when predators (even of the four-legged kind) realize it’s illegal to shoot them. (H/T LA)

Yet another way to foil facial-recognition systems: Go around painted like a Juggalo. (Via Bruce Schneier)

National debt and the founding fathers.

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Which is more dangerous to liberty?

Published June 25, 2018 12:47 pm by Claire

This question arose after discussion with a long-time reader. I think he and I will end up agreeing to disagree. What do you think? I hope you’ll also elaborate on your reasons in the comment section. UPDATE: I have simplified the language of the first two questions. One person said the original wording* was biased and editorializing. I suspect another might say the same, but in the opposite direction. So I stripped the wording down to bare essentials. If anyone wants to change their original answer because they believe my original wording nudged them in one direction or another, I’ll…

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