{"id":1439,"date":"2009-06-01T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:33:45","slug":"weekend-linkorama-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>No, Virginia, Prop 13 and other tax revolts did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/05\/28\/prop-13-and-the-california-fiscal-crisis\/\">not<\/a> bankrupt California.  I swear.  What is it with liberals with coming out with pre-planned and wrong explanations for whatever has been screwed up?  Conservative aren&#8217;t much better these days, of course, blaming the housing crash on the CRA.  But &#8220;disaster socialism&#8221; is alive and well.<\/li>\n<li>Someone actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/judge-sotomayor-and-race\/\">checks<\/a> to see if Sotomayor is the race warrior every Right Wing dunderhead is making her out to be.  Hint: she isn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Why David Petraeus <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/gen-petraeus-believes-our-values-and-co\">rocks<\/a>.  I defy the Right to tell me that he is some weak-kneed liberal who wants the terrorists to win.<\/li>\n<li>Just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/view\/2009_05_27_Teachers__union_flunks_courses\/srvc=home&#038;position=recent\">peek<\/a> into what constitutes &#8220;professional development&#8221; for teachers.  And people wonder why I&#8217;m not friendly to the unions.<\/li>\n<li>More information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/33811_Tiller_Murder_Suspect_Identified_Posted_at_Operation_Rescue\">terrorist<\/a> who murdered an abortion doctor yesterday.  Despite the ugliness of the rhetoric (there&#8217;s a horrific video I refuse to link to) I remain firm in my conviction that the only man responsible for the killing is the killer.  While I am pro-choice, I don&#8217;t believe that pro-lifers should be quiet about what they earnestly believe is the taking of hundreds of thousands of lives a year.  I would, however, prefer to see rhetoric toned down a bit and the focus shifted away from individual doctors to the larger political and moral issue.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Virginia, Prop 13 and other tax revolts did not bankrupt California. I swear. What is it with liberals with coming out with pre-planned and wrong explanations for whatever has been screwed up? Conservative aren&#8217;t much better these days, of course, blaming the housing crash on the CRA. But &#8220;disaster socialism&#8221; is alive and well. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-nd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}