{"id":23828,"date":"2015-12-08T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23828"},"modified":"2015-12-08T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:29:07","slug":"tuesday-links-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/tuesday-links-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A social-justice pecksniff explains that there&#8217;s nothing wrong with suppressing free speech and erasing history. It&#8217;s just a way of achieving <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/568047\/campus-political-correctness-is-no-threat-its-a-move-for-a-better-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">a better future<\/a>.\n<li>Meanwhile, both members of the formerly well-regarded Couple Christakis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimesgazette.com\/yale-couple-flees-classroom-amid-free-speech-chill\/34181\/\" target=\"_blank\">have now fled Yale<\/a> because they can&#8217;t work in such an environment.\n<li>Kevin of The Smallest Minority takes all of three lines to explain <a href=\"http:\/\/smallestminority.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/id-like-to-make-observation.html\" target=\"_blank\">weapons of war<\/a>\n<li>You already know the USPS has been photographing the outside of all your mail (&#8220;security,&#8221; of course). Now they&#8217;re offering to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2015\/12\/07\/us-postal-service-can-now-email-photos-your-mail.html\" target=\"_blank\">email you the photos<\/a>. As a service. (H\/T ML)\n<li>The answer to terror: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/12\/07\/lets-kill-them-first-column\/76887412\/\" target=\"_blank\">tougher (armed) citizens<\/a>, not bigger government.\n<li>Sorry. I was wrong the other day when I wrote that killer cops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2015\/1205\/Tamar-Rice-video-What-new-analysis-says-about-his-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">gave Tamir Rice two seconds<\/a> to live. It wasn&#8217;t that long.\n<li>Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s Chicago is <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/12\/06\/rahm-emanuels-chicago-is-looking-a-lot-like-1974-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\">like New York in 1974<\/a>.\n<li>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-chicago-police-interim-superintendent-john-escalante-met-20151204-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is a hopeful sign.\n<li>Why isn&#8217;t this getting more press? A fedgov taskforce supposedly intended for &#8220;reconstruction&#8221; and business development in Afghanistan apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-us-has-spent-150-million-on-luxury-villas-in-afghanistan-2015-12\" target=\"_blank\">spent 20% of its budget<\/a> on luxury villas for its personnel, complete with meal service with entrees of &#8220;at least 3-star&#8221; quality.\n<p><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/12\/08\/tuesday-links-62\/tip-jar-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tip-jar-SMALL.jpg\" alt=\"tip-jar-SMALL\" width=\"75\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23837\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This holiday season, please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">my Amazon links<\/a> for your shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Or drop a little something in the tip jar.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"W5BH4W4K76VDA\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social-justice pecksniff explains that there&#8217;s nothing wrong with suppressing free speech and erasing history. It&#8217;s just a way of achieving a better future. Meanwhile, both members of the formerly well-regarded Couple Christakis have now fled Yale because they can&#8217;t work in such an environment. Kevin of The Smallest Minority takes all of three lines to explain weapons of war You already know the USPS has been photographing the outside of all your mail (&#8220;security,&#8221; of course). Now they&#8217;re offering to email you the photos. As a service. (H\/T ML) The answer to terror: tougher (armed) citizens, not bigger government.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/tuesday-links-62\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[7,11,12,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","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=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}