Dewine Must Choose Sides with Ohio Permitless Carry Bill

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.

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

 California deputy accused of tossing urine test proving woman innocent goes to jail [More]

No need to get pissy about it...

[Via Michael G]

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before

'Islamophobic Hate Crime' in Virginia Turns Out to Be Fake [More]

There's something perverse about the fact that these things would better serve their agenda if they were real.

[Via Michael G]

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

 How Did the FBI End Up in This Mess? [More]

They did it to themselves. And this hasn't ended.

[Via bondmen]

Speaking of Domestic Extremists...

 NEVER FORGET: Democrats Rioted, Attacked, Beat Trump Supporters During Their Insurrection at President Trump’s Inauguration [More]

The difference is the powers that be find them useful.

[Via bondmen]

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

 MAN ROBS STORE WITH HIS FEET? [Watch]

I thought this had to be a gag but found other accounts saying it happened in May 2020 in Brazil.

Someone should design a brace so that ATF can change the rules and ban it.

[Via bondmen]

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.