{"id":34548,"date":"2018-01-07T06:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34548"},"modified":"2018-01-07T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:35:24","slug":"weekend-links-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/weekend-links-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pretty funny. And think of the implications! New Jersey towns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/05\/nyregion\/taxes-as-charity-new-jersey-towns-try-to-elude-gop-tax-law.html\" target=\"_blank\">turn property taxes<\/a> into &#8220;charitable contributions&#8221; to scoff at the new tax law.\n<li>Did you know that Ash Wednesday falls on Valentines Day this year? And Easter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/01\/06\/ash-wednesday-valentines-day-easter-april-fools-day\/1004317001\/\" target=\"_blank\">shares a date<\/a> with April Fools Day? (unless, of course, you&#8217;re of Orthodox persuasion, in which case your calendar is less odd for a change).\n<li>O, brave new America, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/a_tale_of_two_americas_where_the_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_go_to_jail\" target=\"_blank\">where the rich get richer<\/a> and the poor go to jail. (Tip o&#8217; hat to jc2k in comments)\n<li>Bovard: The latest Bundy trial debacle is yet another reason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/01\/05\/bundy-fbi-misconduct-another-example-why-feds-need-leashed-james-bovard-column\/1001603001\/\" target=\"_blank\">the feds must be leashed<\/a>.\n<li>Yet another occasion for asking the eternal question: Why aren&#8217;t Hillary and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455192\/fbi-gave-hillary-co-special-treatment-during-email-probe\" target=\"_blank\">a number of her close associates<\/a> in the federal pen?\n<li>Colorado senator &#8212; who was anti-legalization &#8212; tells Jeff Sessions he&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/01\/04\/cory-gardner-warns-sessions-ill-hold-every-doj-nomination-reverse-marijuana-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\">hold up every DoJ nomination<\/a> until Sessions reverses his sabotage of the legal cannabis industry.\n<li>Now here&#8217;s a shining example for anybody who imagines they&#8217;re getting old. She&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/2018\/01\/06\/mississippi-woman-bags-deer-ahead-her-100th-birthday.html\" target=\"_blank\">still hunting deer<\/a> days before her 100th birthday &#8212; and wonders why anyone&#8217;s making a fuss about it. (H\/T PT)\n<li>A pictorial primer for us southerners on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2018\/01\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">our Canadian neighbors<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Pretty funny. And think of the implications! New Jersey towns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/05\/nyregion\/taxes-as-charity-new-jersey-towns-try-to-elude-gop-tax-law.html\" target=\"_blank\">turn property taxes<\/a> into &#8220;charitable contributions&#8221; to scoff at the new tax law.\n<li>Did you know that Ash Wednesday falls on Valentines Day this year? And Easter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/01\/06\/ash-wednesday-valentines-day-easter-april-fools-day\/1004317001\/\" target=\"_blank\">shares a date<\/a> with April Fools Day? (unless, of course, you&#8217;re of Orthodox persuasion, in which case your calendar is less odd for a change).\n<li>O, brave new America, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/a_tale_of_two_americas_where_the_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_go_to_jail\" target=\"_blank\">where the rich get richer<\/a> and the poor go to jail. (Tip o&#8217; hat to jc2k in comments)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/weekend-links-87\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[5,11,12,16,18,19,20,23,25,26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","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\/34548","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=34548"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34559,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548\/revisions\/34559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}