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It’s the Trog-style Free State Project, illegal immigration edition
7 Jul 2012 1:11 pm

Or it will be. Once again, California proves that no policy is too liberal for them:
In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s SB 1070 law earlier this month, in which the justices (minus Kagan, who recused) unanimously upheld its core provision, the state of California is looking to reverse the trend of states cracking down on illegal immigration. On Thursday, the state senate passed a bill that would instead shield illegal immigrants from status checks.
They will, however, be checking to see who came from Arizona. Because …

This Week in Automotivators, June 25-July 1
1 Jul 2012 10:33 am

You understand, of course, that when I say “click the link under each picture for more information,” that’s not just an offer. It’s more of a command.

Link: Ed Driscoll.

Link: Conservatives 4 Palin.

Link: Soopermexican.

Link: Jim Romenesko.

Link: Pundette.

Link: The Trog.

Link: And so it goes in Shreveport.
And:

Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, June 11-17

This Week in Automotivators, June 18-24

Make your own automotivators.

Could the world’s most pro-life court be in Germany?
30 Jun 2012 11:18 am

By now, you’ve all heard this story:
Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents’ religious rights.
The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the “fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents”, a judgement [sic] that is expected to set a legal precedent.
Reaction has been mainly in the “government intrusion on parental and religious rights” variety. But maybe we should take …

This Week in Automotivators, June 18-24
24 Jun 2012 11:33 am

Click the link under each picture for more details.

Forgot that one last week. Link: Trog.

Link: Hot Air.

Link: Grandpa Steve.

Link: Insty.

Link: Sean Hackbarth.

Link: Daley Gator.

Link: View from the Porch.
Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10

This Week in Automotivators, June 11-17

Make your own automotivators.

Oddly twisted headline: Feds sue Arizona/Utah town for discriminating against the non-polygamous?
23 Jun 2012 4:01 pm

Here’s the actual headline:
Polygamous towns face federal lawsuit for religious discrimination
Officials of polygamous sect near Utah-Arizona border discriminate against nonmembers by putting their leader Jeffs above law, suit claims.
Shouldn’t any legal action against a “polygamous sect” somehow involve…polygamy? It is still illegal, isn’t it?
And if Justice isn’t going after them for polygamy, then…are they actually polygamous? If so, then why isn’t polygamy involved in the lawsuit? And if not, why are they being described that way?
Not that the allegations aren’t serious:
The U.S. Justice Department filed …

If the internal combustion engine had never been invented, would food preservatives be even more advanced today?
23 Jun 2012 11:08 am

Café Hayek’s Don Boudreaux made an interesting argument in a letter he wrote to the Wall Street Journal:
…industrial capitalism is history’s greatest anti-pollutant. Asphalt and automobiles, for example, combine to cleanse our cities and towns of the bacteria and insects (and stench) that are inseparable from animal-powered transportation. The petroleum used to make asphalt and to power automobiles is used also to make plastic wraps that keep our foods unpolluted, and to produce pharmaceuticals that keep our bodies cleaner and healthier.
To list all of the ways that industrial capitalism depollutes …

“Hi, I’m George Dubya Bush, star of HBO’s award-winning show ‘Game of Thrones…’”
18 Jun 2012 2:16 am

“…and I’m here to tell you how you can win a cameo as a disembodied head, just like me!”
Just kidding. Dubya didn’t say any of that. But maybe he should have. Surely you’ve heard of this by now:
HBO and producers of “Game of Thrones” apologized Thursday for a scene that depicted former President George W. Bush’s severed head on a spike.
The scene first aired last year and was repeated on a DVD release in March…
Bush’s head was one of several on spikes in a scene …

This Week in Automotivators, June 11-17
18 Jun 2012 2:15 am

We’re a little Obama-heavy this week, but, feh. Click the links for more backstory.

Link: Kevin Binversie.

Link: Creative Minority Report.

Link: Trog.

Link: Grandpa Steve.

Link: Trog. The guy was evil, I’m telling you!

Link: Daley Gator.

Link: Pundette.
Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, May 28-June3

This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10

Make your own automotivators.

This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10
10 Jun 2012 5:22 pm

Click the links below each picture to see the story or post it came from.

Link: Trog.

Link: Badger Blogger.

Link: Trog.

Link: Da Tech Guy.

I’ll leave it to you to decide which of them is talking. Link: Hot Air.

Link: Trog. And don’t forget this one:

Admit it: you were hoping to see her in the presidential debates, too.
And finally:

Link: TMZ.
Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, May 21-27

This Week in Automotivators, May 28-June3

Make your own automotivators.

A few words about “Spoofing” and “SWATting,” and would it matter to you if somebody got killed?
9 Jun 2012 1:37 pm

Does everybody know what “spoofing” is? It’s when you make a phone call, but cause the receiving Caller ID to display a fake phone number. That is to say: I can call you, but your caller ID says it’s your grandmother. If I have her number.
Here’s an older news story that explains it:

Notice at about the 1:30 mark, where they point out that you can change the way your voice sounds to the person receiving the call.
That’s spoofing. “SWATting” is using spoofing to call the police, …

Wasn’t the recall important enough to attract liberal money?
9 Jun 2012 11:35 am

The money. So far, that’s the liberal excuse #1 for “why we lost the recall.” Walker spent so much money! Case in point:

And sure, if you only look at what the candidates themselves spent, they’re right:
Overall, over $63.5 million was spent on the recall effort by various parties. Walker spent about $30 million; Barrett spent about $4 million.
That’s Ben Shapiro, writing at Breitbart. Shapiro doesn’t softpedal the fact that lots and lots of Walker’s money came from out of state, but he also refuses to …

This Week in Automotivators, May 28-June 3
3 Jun 2012 11:20 am

Just a few stories from the previous week (and one, technically, from next week), whether or not I blogged about them at the time. Click the link under each one for more explanation.

Link: Hot Air.

Link: American Thinker.

Link: Trog.

Link: The Wyblog.

Link: View from the Porch.
And:

Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, May 14-20

This Week in Automotivators, May 21-27

Make your own automotivators.

The Tragedy of the Commons, “Zombies eating children” edition:
2 Jun 2012 5:29 pm

Does everybody know what “The Tragedy of the Commons” is? It’s an economic dilemma wherein multiple people have incentive to work against their own long-term interests. Here, let Walter Williams explain it:
Imagine there are 100 cattlemen all having an equal right to graze their herds on 1,000 acres of commonly owned grassland. The rational self-interested response of each cattleman is to have the largest herd that he can afford. Each cattleman pursing similar self-interests will produce results not in any of the cattlemen’s long-term interest — overgrazing, soil …

This Week in Automotivators, May 21-27
27 May 2012 11:13 am

Just a few stories from the previous week (and one, technically, from next week), whether or not I blogged about them at the time. Click the link under each one for more explanation.

Link: Althouse.

Link: Right Reactions.

Link: Althouse again.

Link: Trog.

Link: The Other McCain.
Also, gleefully swiped from Dan Collins:

Onward:

Link: Paco.

Link: Trog.
And, finally:

Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, May 7-13

This Week in Automotivators, May 14-20

Make your own automotivators.

Obama is a U.S. citizen, no matter where he was born.
26 May 2012 8:58 am

I’ve made this same point before, with no effect. So maybe now that Byron York is writing about the latest “Obama citizenship” flap, we can make some headway.
York writes:
The Constitution specifies that a president must be a “natural born citizen” of the United States, but it does not define the term. The Supreme Court has never clarified the issue, but there is a law, 8 U.S. Code 1401, that spells out in detail who is a citizen.
The law uses the phrase “citizens of the United States at birth” and …

This Week in Automotivators, May 14-20
20 May 2012 10:15 am

Just a few stories I noticed over the course of the past week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the links under each picture if you need a little background.

Link: Goldfish and Clowns.

Link: Politico.

No link for that one. Sorry.

Link: Daley Gator.

Link: Paco. If you click only one link today, click this one.

Link: Obi’s Sister. Not to mention:

Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, April 30-May 6

This Week in Automotivators, May 7-13

Make your own automotivators.

Blaska: make Democrats pay the taxpayers back for this recall
19 May 2012 10:52 am

Madison blogger David Blaska – make that Madison conservative blogger David Blaska, which I know sounds like an oxymoron – is sending this bill to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin:

Dave writes:
I am sending a taxpayers’ bill for $16 million c/o Mike Tate, Democrat(ic) Party of Wisconsin, 110 King St., Suite 203, Madison, WI 53703. I invite you to do the same. Copy this graphic and email it to MikeT@wisdems.org.
I love how he throws that extra $15 onto the bill. Graeme Zielinski is the WisDems’ communications director, who burned a …

A Tale of Two States, or: If They’re Going to Recall Walker, What’ll They Do to Brown?
13 May 2012 12:11 pm

On the other hand, maybe California’s Gov. Brown would like to invite Gov. Walker out for a little shop talk?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion — much larger than had been predicted just months ago — and will force severe cuts to schools and public safety if voters fail to approve tax increases in November, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday.
The Democratic governor said the shortfall grew from $9.2 billion in January in part because tax collections have not come in as high …

This Week in Automotivators, April 30-May 6
6 May 2012 11:28 am

Just a few stories from the week, whether I blogged about them or not. Click the links for more information if you don’t get the reference, or just to send the blogger a hit.

Link: The Other McCain.

Link: Trog.
That’s from my Valeria Lukyanova posts, here and here.

Link: The Wyblog.

Link: Althouse.

Link: Da Tech Guy.

Link: Camp of the Saints.
Extra Automotivatorness on that subject at Paco Enterprises.
And, of course:

And:

Link: Trog.
Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, April 16-22

This Week in Automotivators, April 23-29

Make your own automotivators.

This Week in Automotivators, April 23-29
29 Apr 2012 4:49 pm

Just a few stories from the past week, whether I blogged about them or not at the time. Click the link below each picture if you don’t get the reference. I can be a little obtuse sometimes.

Link: Trog.

Link: Trog again.

Link: Don Surber.

Link: Camp of the Saints.

Link: Laughing Conservative.

Link: Proof Positive.

Link: Questions and Observations.
And:

Previously:

This Week in Automotivators, April 9-15

This Week in Automotivators, April 16-22

Make your own automotivators.