These were a bit long to include in any links post, but both are good weekend reads. Just grab a cup of coffee … “One woman’s dangerous war against the most hated man on the Internet.” (The woman has guts; unfortunately the law she inspired is typically stupidly written.) “What to do if and when Obamacare collapses.” Jim Powell reminds us once again that Obamacare set out to do virtually the opposite of everything that actually needs to be done to restore sanity and affordability to medical care. —– Back later with more, including Deep Thoughts, serious questions, and another…
Category: Official thuggery, bad prosecutions, and bad law
‘Nother reason to eat a nuts-n-berries diet. Or at least nuts, anyhow. Beaver steals gun. Chortle. One more v*te for shutting down Obamacare. This one from cybersecurity mavens. In the meantime, assuming you can buy insurance at all, maybe you can get it for free! It seems that the U.S. is developing a kind of ideal income level where you can a) live reasonably well while b) maximizing your tax-provided benefits. Millions more will surely aim for this welfare-state version of “success.” Cockapoo nation! But some proud traditionalists will not go happily into that EZ future. Anybody could have predicted…
Snooping in Seattle … in the name of providing a “service.” Has the quality of social workers always been this dismal? Fear of terrorism makes people stupid. Sure, we knew that. But check out that stat about the odds of being killed by a terrorist vs a cop! What’s it like being a geek in prison? More and more Americans need to know. Looks as if Catching Fire is going to be as good as the first Hunger Games movie. Interesting, too, how this reviewer automatically uses terms making parallels with today’s USA. From comments: Reader A.G. offers up a…
The fourth shock wave of ObamaCare is about to strike And even Obama’s hometown paper says, “Stop digging, start over.” The Dallas Buyers Club is in my Netflix queue for sure. From everything I’ve read or heard, it’s a spectacular indictment of big government (specifically the death-dealing FDA) and a celebration of Outlaw entrepreneurism. That it stars Matthew McConaughey is merely a plus. Another long-time outdoors writer and sportsman who’s shocked to learn that laws passed against eeeeeeevvil gun owners also — oops! — apply to him. (H/T to LA) “Can’t we all just get along?” “Well, ah, no.” Mike…
As we speak, Dear Leader is about to announce that — lucky you! — you can keep your inferior, inadequate, cancer-covering, less expensive, lower-deductible health insurance after all. For a while. Except that, as even NPR understands, that’s mostly impossible due to all the hurdles insurance companies had to go through to be “allowed” to cancel old plans and the hurdles they’ll have to go through to be “allowed” to keep them. Not to mention the millions — billions? — they’ve spent making internal changes and notifying policyholders. And what’s their motivation undoing it all and doing it all again…
Oh my. It seems one case of official anal probing just wasn’t enough. Another man is now suing over the same offense. But of course, both committed heinous crimes that brought them to the attention of police. One failed to stop fully at a stop sign coming out of a parking lot. The other may have neglected to signal for a turn. Villains! Evil-doers! They’re lucky they weren’t both summarily shot or tasered to death.
Man. Only in a police state does anybody need to publish — or take — advice like this. The Southern Poverty Law Center gets more stupidly weird every year. So when is the MSM going to catch on? From Clark at Popehat: “A Modest Argument About Police Culture Culminating in a Reference to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.” Chase isn’t the only bank in trouble. How much longer will it be before these “troubles” finally have their natural consequence? (Via S.) Why the Brits (though presumably not the British readers of Living Freedom) love Big Brother. The Obamacare Dozen. That is,…
Outrage over the murder of Andy Lopez seems to have run its media course. And a short course it was. A few days. Even while the gunblogosphere was spreading the news that a California sheriff’s deputy had assassinated a 13-year-old boy for walking down the street with an Airsoft gun, the story was already being dismissed. One of the more conservative gunbloggers sniffed (I paraphrase), “Too bad. But after all, he refused to obey a police command.” Carl-Bear Bussjaeger blew that notion away with his terrible, moving, “10 Seconds to Die.” That poor kid, just minding his own business, was…
Radley Balko has finally written about the “Puppycide” Kickstarter campaign. And — no surprise, given his history of defending dogs against thuggery — he’s already involved with the project. Hope being on HuffPost gives the campaign a huge boost! (Thanks, Ragnar, for the find.)
I’m still working on that blog post that requires Deep Thought. But with a deadline approaching, a construction project pounding away next door, a guy tearing a derelict bathroom out of my place, and Ava having gone insane from all the people around who won’t throw tennis balls*, Deep Thought is as impossible right now as endorsing Obamacare or v*ting for Michael Bloomberg. So for now here are some links. Here’s one of those news stories that’s no surprise at all to us political cynics realists but is still pretty stunning considering the MSM source: the Obama administration has known…