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Tuesday links

Published June 12, 2018 1:18 am by Claire

OMG. Bad guy gets foiled by two intended victims in a row.

Uber applies for a patent that would enable its drivers to identify drunken passengers. The how is soooooo creepy.

I’m a couple weeks late with this news, but Dick Tuck, famous political trickster and Richard Nixon’s lifelong (and beyond) nemesis, died recently at the age of 94.

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Friday links

Published June 1, 2018 12:18 pm by Claire

This is what we’ve come to. Two employees, who did nothing wrong, got fired from their jobs for refusing to serve a woman who entered their business after it had already closed for the night. They refused service to several people, but only the one belonged to the Offended Class. (H/T jc2k in comments)

Stockton will become the first city in the U.S. to give out free cash in hopes of ending poverty and inequality. (At least it’s donated cash.)

Those new tariffs will harm everyone. Except perhaps a few cronies.

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Weekend links

Published May 12, 2018 7:06 pm by Claire

The creepy goes up another notch. Yahoo and AOL are … well, just read it. The headline is slightly overblown, but the reality is damnable enough.

Inside the brotherhood of ad blockers. This is great!

Per jc2k in comments: Black gun-rights activist and founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Rakem Balogun, is arrested and financially ruined for criticizing police.

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Midweek links

Published May 9, 2018 2:16 am by Claire

Arizona passes a comprehensive campus free-speech law for government universities.

Will Rosie O’Donnell do prison time?

That deadly Uber vehicle saw the woman and her bike in time via its various sensors. Its programming told it to ignore her.

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Weekend links

Published March 24, 2018 11:05 am by Claire

Time to dump your Citibank card.

Nope. Mass shootings never happen outside the U.S.. Anybody who says otherwise must be some sort of raving gun nut.

Every once in a while, Mother Jones gets it (mostly) right: the real reason the Japanese don’t buy American cars.

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Tuesday links

Published March 20, 2018 7:22 am by Claire

Cop randomly and repeatedly face-punches a 12-year-old girl playing with a puppy. (At least this one got arrested.) (H/T DB)

The ultimate bail reform: murder your client.

In Japan, lonely seniors (especially women) are committing petty crimes to earn the security and stability of prison.

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Monday links

Published March 19, 2018 2:10 am by Claire

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: If airlines were free to compete, your dog would have a better chance of safely reaching its destination.

Amazon deletes reviews for the works of conservative and libertarian authors without explanation.

Most Americans don’t (yet) fear Big Tech enough says Will Oremus at Slate.

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Thursday links

Published March 1, 2018 8:13 am by Claire

Why police unions, who defend every sort of murdering scum, won’t be defending the most notorious of the “Broward Cowards.”

A snowflake tells children, “Don’t touch the snow!”

The (literal) money quote: “The U.S. government is building the world’s largest debtors’ prison: the United States.” Kevin D. Williamson on the IRS plan to deny passports to tax delinquents.

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Tuesday links

Published January 23, 2018 1:11 am by Claire

li>Five months of texts missing? That’s nothing. “Losing” or destroying inconvenient evidence is the FBI’s stock in trade says Jim Bovard.

Craft beer. The strangest, happiest economic story in America.

“The myth of the playground pusher.” “Drug-free school zones” are nothing more than an excuse to increase sentences for “crimes” that have nothing to do with schools.

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Weekend links

Published January 7, 2018 6:28 am by Claire

Pretty funny. And think of the implications! New Jersey towns turn property taxes into “charitable contributions” to scoff at the new tax law.

Did you know that Ash Wednesday falls on Valentines Day this year? And Easter shares a date with April Fools Day? (unless, of course, you’re of Orthodox persuasion, in which case your calendar is less odd for a change).

O, brave new America, where where the rich get richer and the poor go to jail. (Tip o’ hat to jc2k in comments)

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