{"id":24582,"date":"2016-01-27T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24582"},"modified":"2016-01-27T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:39:58","slug":"wednesday-links-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/wednesday-links-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The feds have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/01\/26\/five-oregon-occupiers-arrested-one-person-killed-in-confrontation-with-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">broken the Oregon standoff<\/a> with arrests and one killing. A remnant remains. Leaders were apparently lured out on the pretext of attending a community meeting and trapped at a roadblock. <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/the-feds-accommodate-ammon-bundy-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why?<\/a> Why not wait them out? (H\/T db)\n<li>David Codrea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2016\/01\/ajph-smart-gun-study-a-transparent-exercise-in-junk-science-agenda-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">exposes and righteously blasts<\/a> the latest junk-science <del datetime=\"2016-01-27T14:26:43+00:00\">study<\/del> op-ed from &#8220;prestigious&#8221; anti-gun medical sources.\n<li>&#8220;Does stupidity cause gun control, or does gun control cause stupidity?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=2769\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Bussjaeger speculates<\/a>.\n<li>I&#8217;ve never understood the mentality that official (or family) wrongdoing is fine <i>as long as no one exposes it<\/i> and that any person exposing the wrongdoing is somehow <i>the problem<\/i>. I&#8217;ve experienced that mentality, God knows (haven&#8217;t we all?), but I&#8217;ll never understand it as long as I live. Anyhow &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/01\/man-arrested-jailed-for-filming-cop-settles-lawsuit-and-gets-72500\/\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes justice eventually prevails<\/a>. (H\/T jed in comments)\n<li>Speaking of exposing wrongdoing &#8230; Are we witnessing the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/presidential-campaign\/266863-we-are-witnessing-the-end-of-the-house-of-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">fall of the House of Clinton<\/a>? We can only hope.\n<li>Kinda funny. Not surprising, though. The most overconfident students (in one study, at least) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/journal_club\/2016\/01\/26\/overconfident_students_major_in_political_science_law_business_and_economics.html\" target=\"_blank\">are in political science<\/a>. (Even more interesting where the <i>least<\/i> confident are &#8212; the fields that require hard evidence.)\n<li>Another drawback of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/01\/no-cost-license-plate-readers-are-turning-texas-police-mobile-debt-collectors-and\" target=\"_blank\">license plate readers<\/a>. Ugh. Ick. Ptooey!\n<li>The most fascinating thing about <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/055341996X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=055341996X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=V23Z524WY4XORPGY\" target=\"_blank\">this grid-down survivalist book<\/a> is that it&#8217;s written by respected, ultra-establishment newsman Ted Koppel.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feds have broken the Oregon standoff with arrests and one killing. A remnant remains. Leaders were apparently lured out on the pretext of attending a community meeting and trapped at a roadblock. Why? Why not wait them out? (H\/T db) David Codrea exposes and righteously blasts the latest junk-science study op-ed from &#8220;prestigious&#8221; anti-gun medical sources. &#8220;Does stupidity cause gun control, or does gun control cause stupidity?&#8221; Bear Bussjaeger speculates. I&#8217;ve never understood the mentality that official (or family) wrongdoing is fine as long as no one exposes it and that any person exposing the wrongdoing is somehow the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/wednesday-links-39\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[4,11,12,19,23,25,27,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24582","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-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582","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=24582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}