{"id":27645,"date":"2016-07-01T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:41:19","slug":"linkswarm-for-july-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27645","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for July 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day weekend! (That&#8217;s America&#8217;s Independence Day, not the newfangled UK version.) Enjoy a LinkSwarm to tide you over for the weekend:<\/p>\n<li>Kevin Williamson explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/437025\/democrats-abandon-due-process\">why firearms ownership is a civil right<\/a>. &#8220;It is a measure of the corruption of the Democratic party and its ability to inspire corruption in others that John Lewis, once a civil-rights leader, is today leading a movement to strip Americans of their civil rights based on secret lists of subversives compiled by police agencies and the military&#8230;The Democrats have lynching in their political DNA, and they seem to be unable to evolve past it.&#8221;\n<li>Hillary&#8217;s State Department just <a href=\"http:\/\/directorblue.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/huma-abedin-say-it-looks-like-state.html#more\">ignored FOIA requests<\/a>.\n<li>The Clinton Foundation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3659123\/Slush-funds-pay-personal-consultant-Huma-Abedin-luxe-Caribbean-holiday-daughter-Chelsea-payoffs-silence-Bill-s-sex-accusers-Hillary-used-donations-Clinton-Foundation-personal-piggy-bank.html\">Hillary&#8217;s personal piggy bank<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/directorblue.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/larwyn-linx-gross-appearance-of.html\">Director Blue<\/a>.)\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/2016\/06\/28\/why-the-left-hates-referendums-n2184036\">The left cares about &#8216;the people&#8217;<\/a> as much as the Soviet Communist Party cared about the workers.&#8221; (Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/237620\/\">Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li>Obama\u2019s unconstitutional illegal alien amnesty <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/23\/blocked-supreme-court-halts-obamas-executive-amnesty-on-divided-4-4-vote\/\">remains blocked on a 4-4 Supreme Court vote<\/a>.\n<li>Ted Cruz endorsed candidate Darryl Glenn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/29\/politics\/colorado-senate-darryl-glenn\/\">wins the Colorado Republican Senate primary<\/a> and will face incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet in November.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/politics\/154-million-voter-files-exposed-l2\/\">154 million voter records exposed<\/a>, revealing gun ownership, Facebook profiles, and more. Caveat: A \u201cMacKeeper\u201d research discovered this and <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/www.imore.com\/avoid-mackeeper\u201d>MacKeeper is foul malware<\/a>&#8230;\n<li>This lengthy article in the <i>New York Times<\/i> talks about how a new Panama Canal expansion designed to handle bigger ships (and which is on the edge of opening) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/panama-canal.html?smid=pl-share&#038;_r=0\">numerous possible debacles<\/a> due to radical underbidding by the primary contractor. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n<li>Bill de Blasio cronies are being arrested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14706\">right and left<\/a>. Or, keeping in mind this is de Blasio we\u2019re talking about, left and left\u2026\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/23\/democratic-lawmaker-indicted-on-food-stamp-fraud\/\">An Arizona Democratic lawmaker<\/a> was indicted on felony charges for allegedly falsifying her application when applying for food stamps.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/07\/01\/austrian-court-overturns-presidential-election-result\/86589342\/\">Results of Austrian Presidential election overturned<\/a> due to voting irregularities. (Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/237630\/\">Stephen Green at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li>Brexit is <a href=\"http:\/\/directorblue.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/brexit-just-what-doctor-ordered.html#more\">just what the doctor ordered<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2016\/06\/16\/ask-kuntzman\/\">ASK KUNTZMAN!<\/a>\n<li>Drunken wife-beater Neil Steinberg <a href=\"http:\/\/thisainthell.us\/blog\/?p=66402\">not allowed to buy a gun<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n<li>&#8220;Al-Jazeera: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-06-17\/something-going-%E2%80%93-and-its-worse-you-thought\">A willful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>? Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they\u2019re doing.&#8221; On the flip side, if Obama&#8217;s secret Middle East goal is to halt Iranian expansion, why the nuke deal?\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/lessons-from-orlando.html\">Lessons from Orlando<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;The MSM eagerly <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2016\/06\/20\/the-mainstream-media-chose-a-side-and-now-its-paying-the-price-n2179451?utm_source=thdaily&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=nl&#038;newsletterad=\">chomps down on its ball-gag<\/a>.&#8221; (Hat tip <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/236679\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li>Cuba&#8217;s hospitals are <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/belen-marty\/2015\/10\/06\/inside-the-cuban-hospitals-that-castro-doesnt-want-tourists-to-see\/\">filthy, undersupplied hellholes<\/a>.\n<li>Behold the nightmarish portal to hell that is <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2016\/06\/28\/that-time-that-tim-blair-and-iowahawk-dogpiled-on-a-hapless-british-academic\/\">Arlesford<\/a>! (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/364444.php\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n<li>Texas closes in on adding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/06\/30\/dps-nearing-goal-250-border-troopers\/\">250 DPS border control troopers<\/a>.\n<li>Ft. Worth&#8217;s superintendent&#8217;s tranny bathroom law is <a href=\"http:\/\/pushjunction.com\/l\/23503\">in violation of both Chapter 11 and 26 of the Texas Education Code<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day weekend! (That&#8217;s America&#8217;s Independence Day, not the newfangled UK version.) 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