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Those blood-sucking vermin in state and national capitals and city halls everywhere

Don’t rush out and buy this one :-)

Published September 16, 2016 5:43 pm by Claire

Word is that Hillary’s latest book — a campaign stinker supposedly co-authored with Tim Kaine but obviously churned out by some PR flack in an office that looks like a Dilbert cartoon — is selling just slightly more copies* than the latest piece of fan-fic authored by Mary Sue Glanvick, age 16, featuring herself as the buxom and brilliant native maiden who saves the life and wins the heart of Captain Kirk. Which has not stopped many brilliant reviewers from reviewing it. —– *Although it may be selling more now out of sheer notoriety.

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Friday links

Published September 16, 2016 11:13 am by Claire
  • Federal appeals court judge says “mental health” ban on gun ownership may violate the Second Amendment. (Yes, you and I know it’s not only a matter of “may.”) (H/T PT)
  • Missouri joins the constitutional carry movement over the objections of its governor. (Tip o’ hat to L.A., who doesn’t like that last line any more than the rest of us purists do.)
  • Now, is the only kind of politician worth a damn.
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    • Midweek links

    Published September 13, 2016 2:26 pm by Claire
  • Unidentified tourists (or identified journalists and politicians speaking for non-existent tourists) get so upset by a “black guns matter” sign that they cry, “Whaaaaa whaaaa!” and flee the town.
  • We the deplorables. (Yeah, not v*ing for Trump, but the identification of who Hillary and nearly every other politician really finds deplorable is spot on.)
  • Two via Kit Perez: More evidence that the unaware and innocent are more likely to be harmed by omni-surveillance
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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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    • Oh, those laugh-a-minute elitists

    Published September 6, 2016 1:28 pm by Claire

    This comes from across the pond. But what a lovely example it is. Hugo Dixon is a big mover behind the effort to keep Britain in the European Union. He devotes this entire Guardian column to that wish. (The Guardian, leftist, pro-big-government rag that it is, in no doubt only too happy to host those thoughts.) But wait, you swiftly point out. Didn’t Brits already v*te to leave the EU? And haven’t we been hearing for lo these many decades that “democracy” is sacred above all other forums of government? And on top of that, aren’t things in the UK…

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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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    • 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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