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Tag Archives: Regulation
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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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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Abbott FINALLY Lifts Wuhan Coronavirus Restrictions
A mere five months after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis lifted coronavirus restrictions on his state, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is finally doing the same: At a press conference in Lubbock, Governor Greg Abbott announced that he was issuing a new … Continue reading
Posted in Regulation, Texas
Tagged California, coronavirus, Florida, Gavin Newsom, Greg Abbott, Regulation, Ron DeSantis, Texas, Wuhan
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Interview with TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua On The Texas Winter Storm Energy Crisis
I reached out to the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s energy expert Katie Tahuahua about the dire energy problems brought about by the huge winter storm, here are her answers: 1. The Texas Interconnect Grid is a separate grid from the … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Energy Policy, ERCOT, Katie Tahuahua, oil industry, Regulation, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, Texas Public Policy Foundation
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TPPF’s Chuck DeVore on Reasons Behind The Texas Blackouts
Some brief background on why so many Texas households suddenly seem to be without power: Two problems in #Texas, one short term and exacerbated by the long term issue, and one long term. 2/10 — Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) February 16, … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Austin, Chuck DeVore, Energy Policy, oil industry, Regulation, solar power, Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, wind power
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GameStop Short Sellers Refusing To Fold?
You might think that, having suffered billions in losses, hedge funds would want to get out of the GameStop short-selling game. You’d be wrong. The astronomical rally in GameStop has imposed huge losses of nearly $20 billion for short sellers … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Economics, Regulation
Tagged Citadel Securities, Citron Research, Economics, GameStop, hedge funds, Ihor Dusaniwsky, Janet Yellen, Melvin Capital, Regulation, Robinhood
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