{"id":1910,"date":"2010-07-13T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2010-07-13T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:50:22","slug":"tuesday-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/tuesday-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You saw the recent, all-too-true cartoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/the-24-types-of-libertarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 24 Types of Libertarians<\/a>. Embarrassingly funny. Well, here&#8217;s the remix: <a href=\"http:\/\/fr33agents.ning.com\/profiles\/blogs\/the-24-types-of-authoritarian\" target=\"_blank\">The 24 Types of Authoritarians.<\/a> Also true. But not so personally embarrassing.\n<li>Yeah. Right. The Obama White House is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/story\/markets\/market-overview\/white-house-seeks-ease-tensions-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">reaching out to business<\/a> in a desperate, pre-election attempt to &#8220;end tensions.&#8221; But you know darned well that, if anything at all comes of the effort, it&#8217;ll be nothing more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/07\/12\/big-business-versus-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">the usual favors to <i>big<\/i> business<\/a>. More competition-killing regulations. More subsidies. More strategically targeted taxes. More you-scratch-my-back-I&#8217;ll-scratch yours. Hey, Obama: You want to really do something for business? Get the government the heck out of entrepreneurs&#8217; way.\n<li>Along those lines, David Brooks says in a different way what free-marketeers have been saying all along: That those favors to established big biz hurt the real doers and job creators. The way he puts it is new, though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/13\/opinion\/13brooks.html?_r=1&#038;ref=columnists\" target=\"_blank\">princes (and princesses) vs grinds.<\/a> (<i>N.Y. Times<\/i> link; may require registration.) Amazing to see anybody as mainstreamy as Brooks express that thought.\n<li>Per J.F. once again: The scholarly magazine that published Michael Bellesiles latest suspect claims <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/07\/12\/chronicle-review-is-looking-into-the-june-27th-bellesiless-article\/\" target=\"_blank\">is belatedly investigating the facts<\/a>.\n<li>Per Pat: The fedgov is trying to keep the folks whose ancestors invented lacrosse from traveling internationally to play lacrosse. No matter how this issue turns out (and today is apparently the deciding day) <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs11tv.com\/wireapnational\/Team.Passport.dispute.2.1799594.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s a sad &#038; interesting story of nations within nations<\/a>. And the desire for sovereignty and identity. And the loss of freedom.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/north\/north865.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gary North on unpublished writers asking published ones for critiques<\/a>. Yup.\n<li>In Arizona, <a href=\"http:\/\/camerafraud.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/12\/finished-redflex-cams-coming-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">the cameras are finally coming down<\/a> &#8212; or at least being shut off for now. Something most people didn&#8217;t know: Arizona was putting private camera-contractors illegally into official law enforcement vehicles. That cost one man his life and now <a href=\"http:\/\/camerafraud.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/27\/dps-state-of-arizona-sued-by-georgiannis-for-shooting-death-of-van-operator\/\" target=\"_blank\">might cost the state millions of dollars.<\/a> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom&#8217;s Phoenix<\/a>.)\n<li>It&#8217;s always nice to close with a joke. Question is &#8212; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalnewsradio.com\/?nid=165&#038;sid=2000678\" target=\"_blank\">this a joke<\/a> &#8212; or not? Hm. It would certainly help explain why so many TSA thugs you meet are busting the seams of their uniforms.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You saw the recent, all-too-true cartoon The 24 Types of Libertarians. Embarrassingly funny. Well, here&#8217;s the remix: The 24 Types of Authoritarians. Also true. But not so personally embarrassing. Yeah. Right. The Obama White House is reaching out to business in a desperate, pre-election attempt to &#8220;end tensions.&#8221; But you know darned well that, if anything at all comes of the effort, it&#8217;ll be nothing more than the usual favors to big business. More competition-killing regulations. More subsidies. More strategically targeted taxes. More you-scratch-my-back-I&#8217;ll-scratch yours. Hey, Obama: You want to really do something for business? Get the government the heck&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/tuesday-thoughts-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}