{"id":3931,"date":"2011-01-24T03:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2011-01-24T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:16:37","slug":"monday-miscellany-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/monday-miscellany-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The USA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ninth freest nation<\/a> on earth and proud to rank third among the &#8220;mostly free,&#8221; economically speaking. (Motto: &#8220;We take second place to none! But we take third place behind Ireland and Denmark.&#8221;) Deroy Murdock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/257616\/america-s-economy-ninth-freest-deroy-murdock\" target=\"_blank\">has a pretty good take on the news<\/a>. (Although some of us might differ with what exactly &#8220;free trade&#8221; means. NAFTA? Gimme a break!)\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>. First thorough recap of &#8220;Project Gunwalker&#8221; I&#8217;ve seen. What, the ATF dirty? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/knox-reports-on-project-gunwalker\" target=\"_blank\">Causing the very problems it claims to want to solve<\/a>? Nevah!\n<li>You know all those new 1099 requirements in Obamacare? The ones everybody&#8217;s tearing their hair over but (so far) nobody can seem to manage to repeal? Fox says &#8212; terrible news! &#8212; that on top of everything else <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/2011\/01\/21\/new-ugly-effect-tax-evasion\/\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;ll lead to more tax evasion<\/a>. Whatever is this wicked world coming to?\n<li>In Vietnam, they called this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/01\/25-tons-of-bombs-wipes-afghan-town-off-the-map\/\" targtet=\"_blank\">destroying the village to save it<\/a>.\n<li>Frank Furedi: In defense of individual moral autonomy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/10102\/\" target=\"_blank\">against the politics of nudging<\/a>. Political nudging seems to be another term for that monstrous oxymoron <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soft_paternalism\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;libertarian paternalism.&#8221;<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA: Ninth freest nation on earth and proud to rank third among the &#8220;mostly free,&#8221; economically speaking. (Motto: &#8220;We take second place to none! But we take third place behind Ireland and Denmark.&#8221;) Deroy Murdock has a pretty good take on the news. (Although some of us might differ with what exactly &#8220;free trade&#8221; means. NAFTA? Gimme a break!) Via Joel. First thorough recap of &#8220;Project Gunwalker&#8221; I&#8217;ve seen. What, the ATF dirty? Causing the very problems it claims to want to solve? Nevah! You know all those new 1099 requirements in Obamacare? The ones everybody&#8217;s tearing their hair&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/monday-miscellany-25\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/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":[11,12,18,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}