{"id":20003,"date":"2015-02-17T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:31:42","slug":"midweek-miscellany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/midweek-miscellany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Lt. Gov. of Texas asked the Chancellor of the Texas A&#038;M University System to weigh in on campus carry of firearms. <a href=\"https:\/\/dcpr00gbauvhc.cloudfront.net\/sharedmedia\/1507270\/txamsystemltr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty good response (pdf) <\/a> for a bureaucrat. He nails the central issue: trust. (H\/T LarryA)\n<li>The legalization of pot and <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2015\/02\/16\/drugged-drivers-who-arent\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;drugged&#8221; drivers who aren&#8217;t<\/a>.\n<li>The rich and the poor. Which in this case also seems to extend to the powerful and the powerless. They both cheat <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2015\/02\/rich-and-poor-people-cheat-for-different-reasons.html\" target=\"_blank\">but from very different motives<\/a>.\n<li>Bovard on Obama&#8217;s rosy belief that the U.S. can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/16\/james-bovard-obamas-liberal-spending-ignores-impac\/\" target=\"_blank\">squander its way to prosperity<\/a>.\n<li>The Freedom Feens say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/?p=7560\" target=\"_blank\">effective libertarians<\/a> (blush) study Claire Wolfe. (That one got me so flustered I just spelled my own name wrong.)\n<li><i>The Atlantic<\/i> prints the politically incorrect (but useful) fact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2015\/02\/what-isis-really-wants\/384980\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS is genuinely, indisputably Islamic.<\/a>\n<li>How one domino the size of a Tic Tac <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-one-domino-can-topple-a-building-2015-1\" target=\"_blank\">could topple a whole building<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to think this makes a great metaphor for freedom, but even if it doesn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s a great fun physics fact.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lt. Gov. of Texas asked the Chancellor of the Texas A&#038;M University System to weigh in on campus carry of firearms. Pretty good response (pdf) for a bureaucrat. He nails the central issue: trust. (H\/T LarryA) The legalization of pot and &#8220;drugged&#8221; drivers who aren&#8217;t. The rich and the poor. Which in this case also seems to extend to the powerful and the powerless. They both cheat but from very different motives. Bovard on Obama&#8217;s rosy belief that the U.S. can squander its way to prosperity. The Freedom Feens say that effective libertarians (blush) study Claire Wolfe. (That one&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/midweek-miscellany-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek miscellany<\/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":[12,19,20,30,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","category-war","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","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=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}