{"id":3634,"date":"2010-11-23T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2010-11-23T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:56:27","slug":"linkswarm-for-tuesday-november-23-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for Tuesday, November 23, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before Thanksgiving! Here&#8217;s a swarm of links from what should be a slow news week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dwight gives his pimp hand another workout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3123\">fisking the latest WaPo gun piece<\/a>.\n<li> He also notes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3141\">Saxet gun show is back after a lengthy absence<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/11\/think_again_global_aging?page=full\">The consequences of global population decline.<\/a>\n<li>Estonia joins the Eurozone just in time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/estonia\/8148863\/The-Princess-who-is-trying-to-make-Estonia-love-the-euro.html\">get stuck with part of the bill for the Greek bailout<\/a>. That is, if the Euro doesn&#8217;t collapse entirely&#8230;\n<li>The New Madrid Fault <a href=\"http:\/\/failuremag.com\/index.php\/feature\/article\/no_great_shakes\/\">may not be as dangerous as once believed<\/a>.\n<li>Obama on people protesting the TSA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/obama-politically-tone-deaf-on-tsa-outrage\/\">Shut up and enjoy your groping<\/a>.\n<li> Thomas Sowell sees TSA policies as part and parcel of this administrations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/11\/23\/airport_security_108037.html\">contempt for average Americans<\/a>: &#8220;This administration is so hung up on political correctness that they have turned &#8216;profiling&#8217; into a bugaboo. They would rather have electronic scanners look under the clothes of nuns than to detain a Jihadist imam for some questioning.&#8221;\n<li>Federal pay cuts aren&#8217;t enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/pay-cuts-arent-enough-time-to-lay-off-federal-workers\/\">We also need federal head-count cuts.<\/a>\n<li>The <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> uses cruel facts and spiteful logic to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/capital_journal.html\">shoot holes in the pet liberal theory that Democrats lost because Obama just wasn&#8217;t liberal enough<\/a>.\n<li>Republicans picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasinsider.org\/?p=37593\">about 680 state legislative seats<\/a> on election day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/253782\/post-election-party-flips-continue\">They&#8217;ve picked up 10 more since.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before Thanksgiving! Here&#8217;s a swarm of links from what should be a slow news week: Dwight gives his pimp hand another workout fisking the latest WaPo gun piece. He also notes that the Saxet gun show is back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,17,16,49,38,31,18,65],"tags":[95,2864,796,484,804,2865,803,78],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-democrats","category-economics","category-foreign-policy","category-guns","category-jihad","category-republicans","category-waste-and-fraud","tag-deficits","tag-democrats","tag-estonia","tag-linkswarm","tag-new-madrid-fault","tag-republicans","tag-thomas-sowell","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}