Last week was incredibly busy for sundry reasons. It would be nice to get the Friday LinkSwarm back to Friday, but in the meantime, enjoy the Monday version:<\/p>\n
One of the greatest advantages of sanctions as a coercive tool is their effect over time. Dismantling this thing, which in a way is what we’re doing, is kind of like taking money out of your retirement account early. As we let these sanctions work over time, by the time we got to 2012, they were really in dire straits. If a deal is signed this year and then in 2017 they cheat, it would take years and years and years of penalizing them before we could ever get back to the situation we had in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
Women expelled from Calgary Expo due to thoughtcrimes<\/a>.\n Ten takeaways<\/a> from Rolling Stone<\/i>‘s UVA rape hoax.\n “On the Internet, when all the social context is stripped away and you don’t even have to look at the face of the person you’re being mean to, shame loses its social, restorative function. Shame-storming isn’t punishment. It’s a weapon<\/a>.”\n Old and Busted: Getting Montazuma’s Revenge in Mexico. The New Hotness: Thanks to Obama’s illegal alien amnesty, now it’s coming to you<\/a>! (Hat tip: Instapundit.)\n “Tsarnaev is, literally, a traitorous, child-murdering cop killer<\/a>.”\n The Kurds are kicking ISIS’s ass<\/a>: “Picking a fight with the Kurds is a little like going to war against Lebanon’s Druze or the Israelis. It’s like trying to invade and occupy Texas<\/em>.”\n Islamic State beheads man for witchcraft<\/a>.\n People are burning and looting immigrant shops<\/a> in South Africa. “South Africa, with a population of about 50 million, is home to an estimated 5 million immigrants….South Africa’s unemployment stood at 24 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014.” Doesn’t seem like a recipe for social harmony…\n Parenting Protip: Although I’m unmarried and childless, I’m pretty sure the answer to “Mom, will you buy booze and weed for my naked Twister orgy<\/a>, then have sex with my underage boyfriends?” should be “No.”\n It doesn’t take six months to repair plumbing problems at a Wal-Mart<\/a>. What gives? (Hat tip: Zero Hedge)\n A blind person with a stick<\/a> would be better than Hillary Clinton at reading people around her.”\n De Blasio brings class warfare to Iowa.<\/a>\n Now that Rahm Emanuel has been reelected, he no longer needs to pretend to obey your puny peasant laws<\/a>. (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>.)\n Here’s what’s roiling the Whacko American community<\/a> these days.\n Buzzfeed has outdone itself<\/a>. You will be staggered<\/em> by their amazing psychic powers…\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week was incredibly busy for sundry reasons. It would be nice to get the Friday LinkSwarm back to Friday, but in the meantime, enjoy the Monday version: “One of the reasons why Obamacare remains stubbornly unpopular is because most Americans don\u2019t like to think of themselves as being the sort of people who would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,102,17,13,49,31,2463],"tags":[2091,354,1903,88,2872,2870,779,54,2361,2867,1331,2119,486,2866,1844,498,2584,2881,2127,2715],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-crime","category-democrats","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-social-justice-warriors","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-border-controls","tag-boston","tag-chicago","tag-crime","tag-foreign-policy","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iran","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-jihad","tag-kurdistan","tag-kurds","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-obamacare","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-rape","tag-rolling-stone","tag-social-justice-warriors","tag-south-africa","tag-wal-mart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23350,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions\/23350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}