{"id":21507,"date":"2015-06-25T01:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21507"},"modified":"2015-06-25T01:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:25:13","slug":"thursday-links-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/thursday-links-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>More surprises from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/06\/24\/presidential-policy-directives-form-secret-law\/29235675\/\" target=\"_blank\">the most transparent<\/a> administration in history.\n<li>That DoJ gag order against <i>Reason<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2015\/06\/22\/dojs-gag-order-on-reason-has-been-lifted-but-the-real-story-is-more-outrageous-than-we-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\">was even more unreasonable<\/a> than it seemed.\n<li>Though I gasp at his apparent belief that U.S. cops aren&#8217;t hardass enough, Kevin D. Williamson is once again perspicacious. He says we&#8217;re seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420211\/left-activist-peak-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;peak leftism.&#8221;<\/a> We can surely hope so, because if the current crop of ranters and banners goes much farther, we&#8217;ll end up with full-blown fascism.\n<li>Drug addiction: It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/johann-hari\/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;ve been told<\/a>. (This book by the writer of that article looks like a must read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620408902\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1620408902&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=XAJVGUPAS2DXDP64\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs<\/i><\/a>.)\n<li>Ah, so impressive. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2015\/06\/23\/gun-group-cites-low-compliance\/29193905\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four percent compliance<\/a>. That&#8217;s how free people do it, baby. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>What if book authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/06\/amazon-publishing-authors-payment-writing\/396269\/\" target=\"_blank\">got paid according to what readers <i>actually read<\/i>?<\/a> Some writers are about to find out.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/brady-v-lucky-gunner\" target=\"_blank\">v*te for The Zelman Partisans<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More surprises from the most transparent administration in history. That DoJ gag order against Reason was even more unreasonable than it seemed. Though I gasp at his apparent belief that U.S. cops aren&#8217;t hardass enough, Kevin D. Williamson is once again perspicacious. He says we&#8217;re seeing &#8220;peak leftism.&#8221; We can surely hope so, because if the current crop of ranters and banners goes much farther, we&#8217;ll end up with full-blown fascism. Drug addiction: It isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;ve been told. (This book by the writer of that article looks like a must read: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/thursday-links-40\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday links<\/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":[4,11,12,19,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/21507","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=21507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}