{"id":24705,"date":"2016-02-05T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24705"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:33:45","slug":"friday-links-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/friday-links-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Big <a href=\"http:\/\/armsandthelaw.com\/archives\/2016\/02\/great_fourth_ci.php\" target=\"_blank\">court victory<\/a> for the Second Amendment this week. Like all court victories, flawed. But still big.\n<li>Why antigunners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-gun-stocks-obama-special-report-idUSKCN0VE1TG\" target=\"_blank\">own stocks in gun and ammo companies<\/a>.\n<li>I wasn&#8217;t sure they&#8217;d ever do it: The Free State Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreleaserocket.net\/free-state-project-triggers-the-move-20000-libertarians-to-move-to-new-hampshire-in-next-5-years\/403552\/\" target=\"_blank\">now has the 20,000 pledgers<\/a> it said it needed for critical political mass. I wonder whether they&#8217;ve checked to see if all those pledges are current and good. I know I withdrew mine around the time they started the move prematurely. The FSP is an intriguing effort that&#8217;s made waves. More power to it and all its people. How well they can stand against the rising tide of &#8220;socialism&#8221; is anyone&#8217;s guess.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/02\/03\/value-added-tax-vat-economics-congress-editorials-debates\/79778902\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resist the VAT<\/a> or any other national sales tax. Always and forever. (I&#8217;ll never understand those for whom &#8220;tax reform&#8221; means &#8220;more taxes.&#8221; Or those who believe that the income tax will magically go away when some new tax is imposed. Do they not know how government works?)\n<li>Yet another American Muslim cries for <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/02\/04\/no-obama-muslim-heroism-means-reforming-a-decrepit-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\">reform of a decrepit faith<\/a>. Not Obama-style pandering.\n<li>F*c*b**k <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/smellthetruth\/2016\/02\/04\/facebook-removes-legal-marijuana-dispensary-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\">removes the pages<\/a> of medical marijuana dispensaries and legal recreational pot shops. This had just happened to one of my interviewees on the morning I met with him.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big court victory for the Second Amendment this week. Like all court victories, flawed. But still big. Why antigunners own stocks in gun and ammo companies. I wasn&#8217;t sure they&#8217;d ever do it: The Free State Project now has the 20,000 pledgers it said it needed for critical political mass. I wonder whether they&#8217;ve checked to see if all those pledges are current and good. I know I withdrew mine around the time they started the move prematurely. The FSP is an intriguing effort that&#8217;s made waves. More power to it and all its people. How well they can stand&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/friday-links-53\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[5,7,12,19,20,23,26,29,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-practical-freedom","category-religion","category-resistance","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\/24705","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=24705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}