{"id":3458,"date":"2010-09-07T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2010-09-07T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T13:09:34","slug":"labor-day-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,2014332,00.html\">this study<\/a> must be 100% accurate.<\/li>\n<li>While <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/03\/from-the-killing-fields-to-the\">this<\/a> is about politics, I mainly link to it for the inspiring story of Sam Meas, running for Congress three decades after his family was butcher by the Khmer Rouge.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>Why do I like Anne Applebaum, apart from her amazing book <i>Gulag<\/i>?  Because she&#8217;s admitting she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2265482\/\">wrong<\/a> on Iraq.  I think half the problems in this country would go away if people could admit when they&#8217;re wrong.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re Full Of It Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703959704575454061524326290.html\">Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Daily Kos has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/9\/2\/897540\/-The-deficit-commissions-conservative-bias\">fit<\/a> because the deficit commission is likely to recommend &#8220;cuts&#8221; to Social Security (see previous postings on the nature of these &#8220;cuts&#8221;). The idea, here, however, is supposed to be compromise.  If we get spending cuts, I&#8217;ll acquiesce to tax hikes.<\/li>\n<li>How can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/01\/AR2010090106940.html\">illegal immigration be going down<\/a>? Obama is turning this place into a welfare state and not enforcing the border, right?  Shouldn&#8217;t that be drawing more of them in, complete with anchor babies?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amendthecpsia.com\/2010\/08\/cpsia-making-it-up-as-we-go-along\/\">more<\/a> on the ridiculous CPSIA.<\/li>\n<li>A double whammy from Lenore Skenazy. A <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/03\/the-most-insane-zero-tolerance-story-yet\/\">horror story<\/a> of Zero Tolerance stupidity; and <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/02\/why-big-brother-school-safety-measures-arent-making-schools-safer\/\">why<\/a> these measures are stupid to being with.<\/li>\n<li>The dim bulb legislature in California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=545956\">condemns<\/a> the FTA that would open markets to their products.<\/li>\n<li>Russ Roberts <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2010\/09\/war-is-bad-for-children-other-living-things-and-the-economy.html\">tackles<\/a> the myth that WW2 ended the Depression.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this study must be 100% accurate. While this is about politics, I mainly link to it for the inspiring story of Sam Meas, running for Congress three decades after his family was butcher by the Khmer Rouge. Political Links: Why do I like Anne Applebaum, apart from her amazing book Gulag? 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