{"id":37874,"date":"2018-07-26T05:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37874"},"modified":"2018-07-26T05:55:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:55:28","slug":"thursday-links-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/thursday-links-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m mystified by this week&#8217;s hullabaloo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/20\/trump-poised-to-take-control-of-the-federal-reserve.html\" target=\"_blank\">about Trump threatening to take over<\/a> the Federal Reserve. He might make it &#8220;political&#8221;? But <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/myth-fed-independence\" target=\"_blank\">as Rothbard knew<\/a>, few things are already as inherently political as the infamous Fed.\n<li>Murder-for-hire charges against Ross Ulbricht <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire-charges-d\" target=\"_blank\">have been dropped<\/a>. Bet most people who know he&#8217;s in prison think that&#8217;s what he was already convicted of.\n<li>That terrible question we always get: What would happen <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/what-would-happen-if-government-didn-t-handle-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">if the government didn&#8217;t handle<\/a> X, Y, or Z?\n<li>Srsly? Since when have farmers <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/farmers-prefer-free-trade-over-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">preferred free trade<\/a> over federal aid?\n<li>What happens when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/07\/when-your-credit-card-fails-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">credit cards fail to work<\/a>.\n<li>Got money? Now you <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t leave the U.S.<\/a> unless the IRS allows you. (Troubling implications; good history of emigration control.)\n<li>It&#8217;s a great discovery &#8212; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/large-body-of-liquid-water-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">large body of water on Mars<\/a>. But sort of sad that it had to be made by Italians.\n<li>Next week should <a href=\"https:\/\/kval.com\/news\/nation-world\/mars-making-closest-approach-to-earth-in-15-years\" target=\"_blank\">bring some good Mars viewing<\/a> to us all. (H\/T BD)\n<li>Hahaha. More on the left eating its own: <a href=\"https:\/\/moonbattery.com\/get-the-l-out-lesbians-secede-from-lbgt-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesbians secede from (or get pushed out of)<\/a> the LGBT movement.\n<li>Cuteness of the day. Pit bull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/close-to-home\/pit-bull-dog-carries-chihuahua-friend\" target=\"_blank\">carries his blind chihuahua friend<\/a> wherever he goes.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>I&#8217;m mystified by this week&#8217;s hullabaloo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/20\/trump-poised-to-take-control-of-the-federal-reserve.html\" target=\"_blank\">about Trump threatening to take over<\/a> the Federal Reserve. He might make it &#8220;political&#8221;? But <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/myth-fed-independence\" target=\"_blank\">as Rothbard knew<\/a>, few things are already as inherently political as the infamous Fed.\n<li>Murder-for-hire charges against Ross Ulbricht <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire-charges-d\" target=\"_blank\">have been dropped<\/a>. Bet most people who know he&#8217;s in prison think that&#8217;s what he was already convicted of.\n<li>That terrible question we always get: What would happen <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/what-would-happen-if-government-didn-t-handle-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">if the government didn&#8217;t handle<\/a> X, Y, or Z?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/thursday-links-92\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[8,11,13,19,20,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874","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=37874"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37888,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874\/revisions\/37888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}