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Thursday links

Published August 30, 2018 5:08 am by Claire
  • For the first time in 45 years, a Texas cop is found guilty for a murder he committed in the line of duty. Now let’s see whether he serves the time any other cold-blooded killer would. Ummmm … nope.
  • It is not a violation of Twitter policy to wish someone would kill the children of NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch — even though it is a violation of Twitter policy to wish for the killing of anybody else.
  • The economy: “Winter is coming.”
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    • Freedom in the 50 States

    Published August 23, 2018 4:24 pm by Claire

    Cato has released its 2018 rankings of freedom in the 50 states, compiled by William Ruger and Jason Sorens of the Free State Project. Yep, these ranks are subjective — and Cato recognizes that by allowing users to customize their own rankings by what they consider important. (Gun rights forever! Down with civil asset forfeiture!) And rightly so. Just glancing at the map is mindboggling. Wyoming next to and below Washington and Minnesota in freedoms? Seems unlikely — until you start playing around with the factors. Quite interesting. You could spend hours with the interactive map and customized rankings. Thank…

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    Weekend links

    Published August 18, 2018 10:31 am by Claire
  • A judge knocks the latest Bloombergian nonsense off the Washington state ballot. Our own Comrade X had something to do with this. And the billionaire victim disarmers hoisted themselves on their own petard (i.e. their sheer incompetence).
  • Georgia cop tasers an 87-year-old grandma who was cutting dandelions. His department defends him, ’cause you know, an old lady with a knife has a “capacity” for attacking a cop, even if she isn’t.
  • He robbed the bank. Sixty years later he returned there for dinner. (H/T MJR)
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    • The ATF was “not allowed” to examine the weapons in the Las Vegas shooting

    Published August 16, 2018 6:15 am by Claire

    Yet they’re now pushing ahead with rule changes (the infamous bump-stock ban) based on weapons whose interior workings they never saw. Not allowed to see. By whom? How? Why? What’s the term for this form of government? Bad (of course). Bureaucratic. Arbitrary. Stupid. Fiat-driven. Incompetent. Tyrannical. Agenda-based. Incompetently arbitrary. Arbitrarily incompetently fiat-driven. Of the Star Chamber. Evil. Incompetently arbitrarily evil. On the other hand, you’ve got to love an email that opens, “Oh, and I sued the FBI yesterday, as well …” Len Savage (writer of said email) and Stephen Stamboulieh, attorney extraordinaire, are on the case once again.

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    Midweek links

    Published August 15, 2018 4:20 pm by Claire
  • A troll his been harassing Jack Phillips (of Masterpiece Cake Shop) with multiple orders for cakes she knows he won’t bake. Now Colorado’s shameful Civil Rights Commission is prosecuting persecuting Phillips again.
  • Man attempts to kidnap an 11-year-old girl. She and her pals would have none of it. (Sometimes self defense requires just will — and hot coffee.)
  • A Brazillian entrepreneur takes doc-in-a-box to new and inspiring levels. (And this in a country that supposedly has government health care for all.)
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