This oughta keep you busy for a while. Major hat tip to faithful contributor MJR, who went on a link-hunting tear this week. Um … Yes, Wired, you can do something about Spotify’s weird new anti-privacy policy: don’t use Spotify. And y’know, Spotify’s “clarification” doesn’t help one little bit. It amounts to, “Oh, we’ll never, ever abuse all those bits of your life we’re requiring users to give up to us. Trust us …” Now this is funny. How North Korea is handling shooting range budget cuts. Over at TZP, Nicki and Y.B. write about a pair of killers and…
Category: Guns and Gun Rights
Of course.
Continuing to entertain, amuse, and abuse, and demonstrating that airport “security” is brilliant the world over, British officials steal a toddler’s … um, fart blaster This is not a way to celebrate National Dog Day. But you could celebrate George Orwell’s birthday like so. A civil rights activist of the old days laments the rudeness and folly of Black Lives Matter. Jim Bovard is a thorn in the side of contentment. Strange. Within a span of 10 minutes, I ran across two articles — from very different perspectives! — noting how cruel and inhumane the U.S. prison system is considered…
Well, here’s some provocative privacy protection. Drone Munitions. Shotshells specially aimed (pardon the pun) at ridding your backyard of those pesky camera-bearing neighborhood quadcopters. (H/T MtK) Ten more things you didn’t know were racist. How safe and how effective are those expired meds in your prep supplies? (Via SayUncle) “Brady’s Empty Suits.” Excellent piece from Dave Hardy about how the Brady Center has been able to bring so many frivolous lawsuits and how the Lucky Gunner smackdown may have finally broken them. What a cynical bunch they are! We already know that utility workers and others with access to our…
… I explain over at The Zelman Partisans. And other writers ask if Jewish lives matter, too.
This cop is a shapeshifter! And he and his cohorts are liars and manipulators. This article is nominally about millions being about to lose their Obamacare subsidies. But the most intriguing part is how many people aren’t filing their tax returns. The war on walking? Personally, I think all these busybodies who are so worried about every little thing being “cultural appropriation” should quit speaking English. After all, our language has been appropriating words from other cultures at a furious pace for thousands of years. Our culture would be considerably improved if the “appropriation” yakkers stuck to speaking pure Anglo-Saxon.…
Somewhat of a coup. Boris Karpa has joined the bloggers at TZP. Here’s my introduction for him. And here’s his first post. He’s so much on the ball that he managed to post an hour before I got around to introducing him. Welcome, Boris!
🙂 Sword + righteous determination beats knife-wielding cowards. And that reminded faithful reader PT of “I’ll see your six …”. A rough, tough novelist pulls himself back from the brink of death. How well do you know Gandalf from Dumbledore? I was thinking about that while re-reading the Harry Potter books recently, so naturally I had to steal this when Wendy McElroy posted it. The 2015 Human Freedom Index from Cato, the Frasier Institute, and three other think tanks around the world. Once again, the U.S. doesn’t crack the top 10. “I Made an Untraceable Ghost Gun” by Andy Greenberg…
I write about anti-gunners upping their game. Been more good stuff flowing over there. Check out Y.B. ben Avraham’s “Rumblings Below the Bible Belt” and Sheila Stokes-Begley’s “The Double-Edged Standard” if you haven’t already.
Old-fashioned crimes committed high tech and low. Women taking tea breaks: subversive act. (H/T PT) Bovard on sugar subsidies. The real story isn’t that Facebook canceled a student’s internship when he built an app around one of their privacy vulnerabilities. The real story is how casually the herd beasts are now tracked. Funny this didn’t get more news coverage. (H/T MJR) And for your amusement: Klintonerdämmerung, aka behind the scenes at Chapaqua. (Tip o’ hat to BW) And watch a pair of pups grow up. That one on the left really needs a carpet to run on.
A quick drive-by for an announcement. Two announcements, really. Kurt Hofmann is no longer writing for JPFO. They now have no original writers or content for their alerts. Kurt Hofmann has now taken over my “Enemy at the Gates” column for S.W.A.T. magazine and his first article should appear later this month. If you want to conclude that these two happenings are related, feel free. Kurt is a terrific, up-and-coming gun-rights writer whose military experience makes him perfectly suited to S.W.A.T.. He does great work with great conviction. (Here’s a recent sample.) Heck of a nice guy, too. So yay,…