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Owning our own information and telling Big Brother to get lost

Monday links

Published September 26, 2016 1:38 am by Claire

The economy slides closer to that black hole. Confirmation of that unlikely truth: pot users are thinner than contemporaries with similar lifestyles. And confirmation of an unsurprising truth: pot prohibitionists have as much respect for the law and for truth as anti-gunners. Second Amendment sanctuary cities. Imagine it; government actually serving the people and our rights for a change. “For the first time in a generation, Democrats are betting they’re on the winning side of the gun issue.” And they’re sending out Giffords and Kelly as their “majority” representatives to the swing states. There’s not a reason in the world…

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Weekend links

Published September 18, 2016 7:20 am by Claire
  • Local-government control: a campaign issue ignored while the federal government grows and grows and grows. (And yes, you could take this to a local level beyond all government.) (H/T PT)
  • Reminds me of flap over the word “niggardly” a few years back. Ignorami can’t even use a dictionary before embarrassing themselves.
  • A tiny pension plan hints at bigger problems in California’s government pension systems.
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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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    • 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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