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Weekend links

Published September 10, 2016 5:35 pm by Claire

Twenty-nine strategic lessons from people who’ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material there, too. (Tip O’ hat to Shel.)

Alan Gura examines the court after Scalia — and explains why the next “conservative” justice may not help save the Second Amendment.

John Hinckley is now free to walk among us — as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I’m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.

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Friday links

Published September 9, 2016 9:56 am by Claire

Now this is something. Cracked, which is normally entertaining as all get out but relentlessly anti-gun, points out the five biggest reasons “gun control” in the U.S. is a lost cause. Decent points they make, too.

Looks as if last Friday’s attempt to dump those FBI/Hillary documents invisibly before a holiday weekend is backfiring, reflecting even more on the fibbies than on Hillary. It’s clear that FBI agents were ordered to go incredibly easy on the crook. And Comey’s once sterling (though never deserved) reputation for being an honorable man has gone off the cliff it edged toward when he first announced (I paraphrase), “She’s guilty as sin but she’s a Clinton so she gets a pass.”

Is it a sign of progress that the media now reports on an LP candidate’s gaffe with speculation about whether it will sink his obscure candidacy? It has certainly led to some great laughs in major media Gaffeland

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Thursday links

Published September 8, 2016 1:18 am by Claire

Not news of course. But college-student gun banners are just as blindly ignorant about firearms as their hoplophobic elders. And entertaining to watch. (Via Codrea)

Time to kill the Obamacare penalty. Nope. Not really. Way past time.

And do something about the shameful waste and privacy violations of government-mandated electronic health records, too.

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Monday-that-falls-on-a-Tuesday links

Published September 6, 2016 6:03 am by Claire

Per Adam in comments: “Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns.” How the ATF traces guns used in crimes since the mean old NRA has denied it a full computerized record. (Actually an interesting article, though it would have been better with some recognition of why that computerized database is verboten.)

Ah, but The Atlantic has something much easier to track, even though it could fill just as many large cardboard boxes: the scandals of Hillary from Whitewater to Bengazi.

With science fiction’s Hugo awards having become so politicized that a coterie of social justice pecksniffs will deny v*tes to great writers, artists, and editors merely because they’re supported by a rival (and more freedomista) coterie, The Dragon Awards arise. No cliques. Just fan voting. And of course that makes it “sexist,” “racist,” and … well, you know the drill.

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Choose your superpower

Published September 5, 2016 11:16 am by Claire

Okay, here’s a fun one. Instead of the usual Capital-S Serious poll over at TZP, this week it’s time to choose your preferred superpower.

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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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Friday links

Published September 2, 2016 5:27 am by Claire

Football coach unilaterally repeals the 2A for his players. Tyrants come in all sizes.

Tyrants also come in the standard ATF size (and get scorned behind their backs like tyrants everywhere).

And it seems that courts, at least, have not come so far from the days of reefer madness. (Via Codrea)

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Thursday links

Published September 1, 2016 1:24 am by Claire

Mr Comey: The “adult conversation” you say you want on electronic privacy might go like this: “Leave us alone.”

Because we already know what governments do when they think they’re entitled to our most intimate information. (Both links H/T JB)

The Patrick Henry Society is back — and with a newly Freedom Outlawish attitude.

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Tuesday links

Published August 30, 2016 3:34 am by Claire

Well, yeah. That does explain a lot. Glenn Harlan Reynolds says blame our caveperson ancestors for today’s politics.

Some good news for a change: a federal appeals court rules that cops can’t just pull you over because your vehicle is licensed in a state that’s legalized pot. (One would think that would be self-evidently true; pity that it has to be dictated by judges to Our Heroes in Blue.)

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Sunday links

Published August 28, 2016 9:24 am by Claire

The Survival Mom reflects on 12 reasons otherwise prepared people may fail to survive. (Derived in part from Alexandra Ripley’s provocative book, The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes — and why.)

Yes, it worked so well without government … let’s regulate it!. (H/T Shel from comments)

Sweet, sweet, sweet revenge: Sen. Pat Toomey (he of the Manchin-Toomey-SCHUMER-Gottlieb anti-gun bill) discovers something about the loyalty of those victim-disarmers whose noisome backsides he smooched.

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