{"id":34402,"date":"2017-12-27T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34402"},"modified":"2017-12-27T06:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:05:28","slug":"midweek-links-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/midweek-links-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>United sorta-kinda-but-not-really apologizes to the woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/284304\/\" target=\"_blank\">got bumped from her first-class seat<\/a> so it could be given to &#8220;Queen&#8221; Congressthing Sheila Jackson Lee.\n<li>This Future of Freedom Foundation piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/free-trade-christmas-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas-tree protectionism<\/a> is good as far as it goes. But it doesn&#8217;t mention the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/honest-to-pete-a-christmas-tree-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">obnoxious &#8220;checkoff&#8221; program<\/a> that turned real Christmas trees into yet another federal hog trough.\n<li>An oldie-but-goodie: Frank Chodorov&#8217;s 1952 thinkpiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/time-another-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Time for Another Revolution.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T CB)\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard the U.S. homicide rate is going up? <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/26\/one-third-of-increase-in-us-homicide-rate-because-of-chicago-neighborhoods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thank Chicago.<\/a>\n<li>Jim Bovard: Homeland (Achtung!) Security&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/27\/homeland-securitys-multibillion-dollar-comedy-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">multibillion dollar comedy show<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/366442-10-times-the-intel-community-violated-the-trust-of-americas\" target=\"_blank\">Ten times<\/a> the intelligence community violated our trust. (What, only ten?)\n<li>Armed woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/12\/ga-armed-woman-saves-deputy-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\">saves deputy<\/a> being beaten by a man he tried to do a favor for.\n<li>With New Years resolutions in mind, here&#8217;s how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/2017\/12\/quit-bad-habits\/\" target=\"_blank\">quit your bad habits<\/a> without willpower. Hm. Dunno, but it seems easier to keep mine.\n<li>Fascinating trivia regarding that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2017\/12\/24\/how-a-painting-of-george-washington-crossing-the-delaware-on-christmas-went-19th-century-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\">that famous painting<\/a> of George Washington engaging in unsafe boating practices on Christmas Eve.\n<li>Ha. Pretty clever. Brother <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/4317701\/trolling-act-of-the-year-brother-trolls-little-sisters-phone-thief-until-justice-is-served\" target=\"_blank\">trolls the guy<\/a> who stole his little sister&#8217;s phone.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>United sorta-kinda-but-not-really apologizes to the woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/284304\/\" target=\"_blank\">got bumped from her first-class seat<\/a> so it could be given to &#8220;Queen&#8221; Congressthing Sheila Jackson Lee.\n<li>This Future of Freedom Foundation piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/free-trade-christmas-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas-tree protectionism<\/a> is good as far as it goes. But it doesn&#8217;t mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/honest-to-pete-a-christmas-tree-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">obnoxious &#8220;checkoff&#8221; program<\/a> that turned real Christmas trees into yet another federal hog trough.\n<li>An oldie-but-goodie: Frank Chodorov&#8217;s 1952 thinkpiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/time-another-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Time for Another Revolution.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T CB)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/midweek-links-66\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[2,11,12,18,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/34402","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=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34422,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions\/34422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}