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Wednesday links

  • The great Glenn Greenwald hands their asses to the media stars who attended that “secret” meeting with Trump on Monday then blabbed about how hurt they were by his attitude.
  • Borepatch on the blindness of the educated class. But really on culture. Great read. BTW, @Borepatch is now on Gab.ai.
  • And once again Gottlieb’s denatured JPFO (and Bearing Arms) comes out in favor of anti-gun laws.
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  • One of those days

    Brrrrr. It’s one of those days. Chilly and gray. Not raining yet (which somehow makes the cold gray colder), but we’re about to head into a week of unusually heavy precip. It’s the kind of day when even goofing off seems like too much work. The temptation to crawl back in bed with the mattress heater cranked up and a dog and a cat on either side for extra warmth is strong. Very strong. I may just go do that. After answering email. After Thanksgiving shopping. After a mid-day workout. After prepping a blog for tomorrow. Eventually. Meantime, if you’re…

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    Weekend links

  • OMG. Someone’s planning a flying selfie camera. None of us will be safe from Other People’s Idiocy. (H/T MJR)
  • True, Glenn Greenwald. And very well observed. Now, if the R-party had actually have done anything about all its noble self-criticism …
  • Sigh. We’d probably still end up with a CIA director who wants Edward Snowden dead and an AG who thinks anti-gun Project Exile is the bee’s knees.
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  • A Friday ramble

    Happy Friday, everyone. Here, for your perusal are a few nice finds and random thoughts. —– I found the above image via Gab.ai, which is now having an influx of libertarians, anarchists, and pro-gunners following the infamous Twitter purge. —– And here’s a polar bear patting a sled dog. This isn’t the first polar-bear-and-dog buddy image on the ‘Net. But it may be the most lovable. —– Seems everybody’s got a hopeful agenda for Donald Trump, who remains (despite media certainty that he’s Adolf Hitler reborn) quite the blank slate. Some of those hopeful agendas are worth getting behind. But…

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    Thursday links

  • 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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  • A little late-day freedomista nooz

    1. The Patrick Henry Society is no more. It was lost in a tragic hosting accident (and I think its founder wasn’t all that sorry to see it go). But Kit Perez has started again with RecoveringStatist.com. Not much there yet. But plan a return visit; knowing Kit it’ll soon be loaded with provocative and useful info. 2. There’s a new poll at The Zelman Partisans. It asks your views and plans now that Donald Trump is president-elect. And invites further comment about how (or if) you think a Trump presidency will change the nation, your state, or your local…

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    Midweek links

  • 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

  • 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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  • Monday links

  • If you’ve wondered what would happen if the government banned cash, take a look at India. Right now. (And why is there always somebody who says, “I’m in favor of [this awful thing], if only they would have [committed the outrage in a way that didn’t hurt me so much]”?)
  • One more lefty recounts how he and the Democrats screwed up.
  • Over at TZP, Y.B. ben Avraham describes a “fixer” — and the insane lengths and costs NYC residents have to go through for self defense in a corrupt political system.
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