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Category Archives: Regulation
Constitutional Carry Passes
Good news! The Texas legislature just sent Constitutional Carry to the Governor’s desk: After passing different versions of House Bill (HB) 1927, a bill to allow Texans over the age of 21 who can legally possess a handgun to carry … Continue reading
Posted in Guns, Regulation, Texas
Tagged 87th Texas Legislature, Constitutional Carry, Greg Abbott, Guns, Matt Schaefer, Regulation, Second Amendment, Texas
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Brandon Herrera On New ATF 80% Lower Rules
I am very far indeed from an expert on ATF regulations, and have never bought an 80% lower (i.e., a partially milled metal blank that can be machined at home to produce the receiver for an AR-15 pattern modern sporting … Continue reading
Posted in Guns, Regulation, video
Tagged AR-15, ATF, Brandon Herrera, Guns, Modern Sporting Rifle, Regulation, video
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LinkSwarm for May 7, 2021
Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! The Biden economy kicks in, China behaves badly (again), and rock stars are fed up with woke. Let’s lead off with this weird photo people have been taking about all week: How did … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Budget, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Economics, Foreign Policy, Guns, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Welfare State
Tagged Austin, Basecamp, Bill Gates, Charles C. W. Cooke, China, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Department of Energy, dogs, economy, Foreign Policy, Guns, inflation, Jake Ehlinger, Jennifer Granholm, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Kentucky Ballistics, Michael Dell, Microsoft, MST3K, Obituary, Proterra, Rebekah Jones, Regulation, Roger Daltry, Scott Allen DeShields Jr., Sex Pistols, Social Justice Warriors, Stacey Abrams, stagflation, Texas, unemployment, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, Welfare State, Winston Churchill, Zhe "Shelly" Wang
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LinkSwarm For April 23, 2021
Greetings, and welcome to another super-late Friday LinkSwarm! Been a busy week at the day job. I hope that next week is less frantic, but I also have to start working on my taxes… Father pulls daughter out … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Guns, ObamaCare, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, 1/6 Riot, American Airlines, Ansar al-Sunna, Apple Computer, Arizona, Berkshire Hathaway, black, Border Controls, Brian Sicknick, Burgess Owens, Cabo Delgado, China, coronavirus, Crime, crossbow, demographics, Derek Chauvin, dogs, Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook, Florida Man, Foreign Policy, Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Loury, Guns, Jacob Frey, Japan, Kyrsten Sinema, LinkSwarm, Mark Kelly, Medicaid, Mingqing Xiao, Minneapolis, Mozambique, NBA, New York City, ObamaCare, Olympics, Patrisse Cullors, Regulation, reparations, Robert Jacob, Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, UK, USPS, Wuhan, Zaire
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L.A. Homeless Injunction: Something For Everyone To Hate
Federal District Judge David O. Carter has issued a preliminary injunction in a really interesting ruling that has something in it to offend everyone: U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering the city and … Continue reading
Texas vs. California Update for April 5, 2021
After a long hiatus, the Texas vs. California update is back! The update, focusing on news about the two biggest states in the union, and contrasting the the red and blue state models of governance for each, was a regular … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Budget, Crime, Democrats, Regulation, Texas, unions
Tagged Amazon, Austin, Border Controls, Breyer Capital, Budget, Cal State, California, China, Chuck DeVore, Crime, Dallas, Democrats, Elon Musk, Fentanyl, Fort Worth, Frisco, Gavin Newsom, Harlan Kelly, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, homeless, HookBang, Illegal Aliens, Jerry Lyons, Jim Breyer, Los Angeles, Mark Zuckerberg, Metroplex, Midland, Mountain View, Naomi Kelly, New Braunfels, Oracle, Pflugerville, rats, Round Rock, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Francisco Retirement System, sanctuary cities, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Taxes, technology, Tesla Motors, Texas, Tony Cardenas, USC, Visual Concepts, Wiley X, Williamson County
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DeSantis Continues To Crush It
The bloom is fully off the rose when it comes to South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, who vetoed her state’s bill banning men from competing in women’s sports despite having promised to sign it. But fellow red state governor Ron … Continue reading
Posted in Regulation, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors
Tagged coronavirus, Critical Race Theory, Florida, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice Warriors, Wuhan
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Democrats Push “Drive Plastic Manufacturing To China” Act
Congressional Democrats are offering up a bill whose effects will be to destroy the American plastics industry and drive manufacturing to China: Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that provisions in the sweeping climate bill from top House Democrats would stifle … Continue reading
Government in Action: Idiot Street Signs
I’ve been watching entirely too many Top Gear/Grand Tour videos on YouTube. This one struck me as just barely justifiable for posting here as an example of idiot government regulation at work: a look at idiot street signs. These are … Continue reading
Texas Energy Outage Postmortem
I finally had time to finish this postmortem post on the Texas winter storm energy grid crisis. I’ve got a ton of pieces to get through, so let’s dig in. How the energy grid fell apart: Here were two problems, … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Austin, Austin City Council, Chuck DeVore, Energy Policy, ERCOT, ice storm, Jared Patterson, Jason Isaac, Nacogdoches, natural gas, nuclear power, oil industry, Permian Basin, Regulation, Sid Miller, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, Texas Public Policy Foundation
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