LinkSwarm for June 2, 2011

Taking some time to get back into the post-Memorial Day swing, so here are a few links of interest:

  • California passes new Let’s-Drive-As-Much-Business-to-Texas-As-Possible law. Thanks, California Democrats!
  • Another interesting Michael Totten piece, this one on Jewish settlers in Hebron.
  • Just in case it wasn’t already blindingly obvious, the economy still sucks.
  • Holly Hansen covers Rick Perry’s conference call.
  • Stratfor on the ambush of a heavily armed convoy of drug cartel gunmen by another cartel. “In an environment where drug cartels can mass dozens of gunmen and arm them with powerful weapons like machine guns, .50-caliber sniper rifles, grenades and RPGs, there is no such thing as a force that is too big to be ambushed.” It also suggests that Mexican drug gunmen make incompetent soldiers.
  • Speaking of the drug war, something that produces a mass grave of 226 people has to be classified as a serious war…or a serious atrocity.
  • A freedom ranking of states. Texas comes in fifth. (Hat tip: Say Uncle.)
  • How “smart growth” policies helped contribute to the housing bubble. (Hat tip: Powerline.)
  • I haven’t been following Weinergate because so many others have, but I wanted to point out Ace of Spades shocking, inconceivable theory:

    We are all agreed that someone had an interest in sending a picture of Rep. Weiner’s erection to a coed. Even Rep. Weiner agrees on this much—he’s basically told us yeah, that’s my junk. And he’s proud of that. Would I sound very boring if I were to suggest that the person with the means, opportunity, and motive to send Rep. Weiner’s dicpic to the coed was none other than Rep. Weiner himself?

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