{"id":26946,"date":"2016-09-09T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26946"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:04:29","slug":"friday-links-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/friday-links-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Now this is something. <i>Cracked<\/i>, which is normally entertaining as all get out but relentlessly anti-gun, points out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/the-5-dumbest-things-we-do-in-name-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">five biggest reasons<\/a> &#8220;gun control&#8221; in the U.S. is a lost cause. Decent points they make, too.\n<li>Looks as if last Friday&#8217;s attempt to dump those FBI\/Hillary documents invisibly before a holiday weekend is backfiring, reflecting even more on the fibbies than on Hillary. It&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/7\/fbi-managers-instructed-to-exonerate-hillary-clint\/\" target=\"_blank\">FBI agents were ordered<\/a> to go incredibly easy on the crook. And Comey&#8217;s once sterling (though never deserved) reputation for being an honorable man <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/diaryofamadvoter\/2016\/09\/07\/james-comey-should-resign-now-for-the-good-of-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\">has gone off the cliff<\/a> it edged toward when he first announced (I paraphrase), &#8220;She&#8217;s guilty as sin but she&#8217;s a Clinton so she gets a pass.&#8221;\n<li>Is it a sign of progress that the media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/08\/if_aleppo_gaffe_sinks_johnson_will_trump_or_clinton_gain.html\" target=\"_blank\">now reports on an LP candidate&#8217;s gaffe<\/a> with speculation about whether it will sink his obscure candidacy? It has certainly led to some <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/243424\/\" target=\"_blank\">great laughs in major media Gaffeland<\/a>\n<li>That&#8217;s it. We really have fallen down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The American Legion &#8212; you know, all those uber-conservative old men and women &#8212; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/09\/american-legion-calls-for-marijuana-rescheduling\/\" target=\"_blank\">called for the rescheduling<\/a> of cannabis. Empathy for PTSD sufferers appears to be the quite sensible driver.\n<li>SAF &#8212; and bless Alan Gura &#8212; announces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saf.org\/appeals-court-rules-that-non-serious-convictions-do-not-erase-2a-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">announce a legal victory<\/a> for gun owners (or would-be gunowners) with minor convictions on their records. Appeals-court level only, but hopeful.\n<li>Companies are finally fighting back against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/companies-finally-start-fighting-back-against-organized-shakedowns\/\" target=\"_blank\">interest-group shakedowns<\/a>.\n<li>Well, here&#8217;s a great big non-surprise for ya: Obamacare&#8217;s expansion of Medicaid <a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/obamacare-shrinks-economy-through-medicaid-expansion-and-tax-credit-cliffs\" target=\"_blank\">shrank the economies<\/a> of participating states. Oh, but surely it helped the health of the poor people in those states! Um &#8230; nope.\n<li>True? John Lott, in his new book, says that over a 60-year period from 1950 to 2010 not a single mass shooting happened in a place where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2016\/09\/07\/1950-to-2010-not-one-mass-public-shooting-where-citizens-could-be-armed\/\" target=\"_blank\">people could arm themselves<\/a>. This definitely looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cjyLy9\" target=\"_blank\">good book to read<\/a> (everything by Lott is worth reading, but this one sounds like particularly good ammo for discussions with antis). But is that claim accurate? First thing that comes to my mind is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Whitman\" target=\"_blank\">Texas tower massacre<\/a> where armed civilians were certainly present (and one helped police stop the murderer). The bad guy there simply managed to grab extremely defensible high ground. I expect Lott deals with that case. And maybe our resident Texan gun guy will have better information than I do.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Now this is something. <i>Cracked<\/i>, which is normally entertaining as all get out but relentlessly anti-gun, points out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/the-5-dumbest-things-we-do-in-name-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">five biggest reasons<\/a> &#8220;gun control&#8221; in the U.S. is a lost cause. Decent points they make, too.\n<li>Looks as if last Friday&#8217;s attempt to dump those FBI\/Hillary documents invisibly before a holiday weekend is backfiring, reflecting even more on the fibbies than on Hillary. It&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/7\/fbi-managers-instructed-to-exonerate-hillary-clint\/\" target=\"_blank\">FBI agents were ordered<\/a> to go incredibly easy on the crook. And Comey&#8217;s once sterling (though never deserved) reputation for being an honorable man <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/diaryofamadvoter\/2016\/09\/07\/james-comey-should-resign-now-for-the-good-of-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\">has gone off the cliff<\/a> it edged toward when he first announced (I paraphrase), &#8220;She&#8217;s guilty as sin but she&#8217;s a Clinton so she gets a pass.&#8221;\n<li>Is it a sign of progress that the media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/08\/if_aleppo_gaffe_sinks_johnson_will_trump_or_clinton_gain.html\" target=\"_blank\">now reports on an LP candidate&#8217;s gaffe<\/a> with speculation about whether it will sink his obscure candidacy? It has certainly led to some <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/243424\/\" target=\"_blank\">great laughs in major media Gaffeland<\/a>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/friday-links-65\/\">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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12,13,16,19,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946","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=26946"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26959,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions\/26959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}