{"id":24474,"date":"2015-08-31T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24474"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:17:45","slug":"linkswarm-for-august-31-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24474","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for August 31, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the final week of traditional summer. Of course, it used to be that everything (school, football, the new TV year, etc.) started after Labor Day Weekend, but that’s not the case any more…<\/p>\n

  • “it\u2019s cute to pretend that Black Lives Matter is actually about making policing better when it\u2019s really just another Democratic party constituency<\/a> agitprop group.”\n
  • Texas mandates E-Verify<\/a> for all state employees.\n
  • Ten questions about the Iran deal<\/a>.\n
  • Indeed, the Iran deal stinks so badly that even Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants to keep the stink of Eue De Failure off herself and the DNC<\/a>. (Hat tip: Moe Lane<\/a>.)\n
  • Europe has begun to reform its welfare systems<\/a>. (Hat tip Instpundit<\/a>.)\n
  • Thanks to government efforts, heroin is now cheaper than cigarettes<\/a> in New York City. (Hat tip: Dwight<\/a>.)\n
  • McCarthy critic turns out to be a Soviet spy<\/a>. (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • UK Labour leader candidate Jeremy Corbyn: Apologist for oppressive dictatorships<\/a>.\n
  • Oh, and he wants to give the Falkland Islands to Argentina<\/a>. Why, it’s almost as if the hard left yearns for nothing so much as undoing every conservative foreign policy triumph out of spite…\n
  • And he also called Osama Bin Laden’s death “a tragedy.”<\/a>\n
  • Criticizing Muslim antisemitism? That’s a $750 fine in Denmark.<\/a>\n
  • Widespread street protests in Kuala Lumpur over corruption and embezzlement by Malaysia’s Goldman-Sachs-underwritten Prime Minister<\/a>.\n
  • Still another reason not to use Ashley-Madison<\/a>: “For every 7750 men, there were 3 women.” “Sausage Fest” doesn’t even begin to cover it…\n
  • Speaking of sausage, San Antonio woman steals $3000 worth of sausage<\/a>.\n
  • Conservatives push back on victimhood identity politics guidelines from the College Board and win<\/a>.\n
  • Austin Bag Ban backfires.<\/a> (Hat tip: Dwight<\/a>.)\n
  • A look back at 1945 plans for the invasion of Japan<\/a>. (Hat tip: Borepatch<\/a>.)\n
  • Ten years of Tam.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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