If he does work up the guts to chicken out – and for Dewine that’s actually not a contradiction in terms – the legislature still has override options. [More]
Whatever he decides, you can bet the major consideration will be self-interest.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Dewine Must Choose Sides with Ohio Permitless Carry Bill
Common Factors
But about 5.4 million of 7.5 million new gun owners over the past two years had previously lived in homes without guns. According to the study, that increase collectively exposes another 11m people in those homes to the risk of household firearms. [More]
Really? What happens and behaviors in high-risk homes track with what happens and behaviors in homes where the guns are lawfully possessed?
Y'know, if an honest person looked at this closely, he might start to get the idea that it's not the guns at all...
[Via Jess]
We're the Only Ones Making Quite a Splash Enough
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Ability Disenfranchises?
Your anger at the SATs is actually anger at broader social conditions which the SATs reveal. None of the arguments against the SAT are correct, or even internally coherent. Essays, too, are income stratified - because affluent kids actually are better prepared. Grades (and all other educational data) are race and income stratified too, because those gaps in preparedness are real, so what the f*** are we even talking about here. Educational testing is in fact remarkably valid, reliable, and predictive. Why eventually ability reigns. [More]
Even us lowly public university graduates who held jobs through school can understand that.
[Via Michael G]
Who Will Check the Checkers?
Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories. We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible. [More]
Yes, they adhere to "community standards."
[Via Michael G]
Self-Made Men
Speaking of Domestic Extremists...
Settling the Science
Fauci, Emails, and Some Alleged Science [More]
It's been a while since I've been in school, but I don't remember political smear jobs being part of the scientific method.
Somebody needs to redo the Thomas Dolby video...
[Via bondmen]
Squid Pro Quo
According to Flessner, Lightfoot "has made a deal with the national civil rights movement to raise money for her reelection ... In exchange for national civil rights leaders donating millions of dollars to her campaign, she will do their bidding, like she did in the Young case. Chicago will be poorer for it." [More]
She does have a face made for frog-marching...
[Via bondmen]
Where There's a Will There's a Way
Ready to Go All In
Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024 [More]
Hell, I'd be happy if I could get a hundred of them to routinely share links.
UPDATE:
But it looks like we've found the new narrative:
Ex-Army Generals Fear Insurrection or 'Civil War' in 2024
Look for it to be amplified, get more hyperbolic, and be used as "justification" to initiate "Patriot Act remedies."
[Via bondmen]
The Malign Miss M
He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out. [More]
Talk about the very definition of a bigot.
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