Tuesday Links - 31 May

Samizdata starts us off with “In none of these places were any human remains unearthed.” The burned churches were in service of a fictional story that the media pushed.

You have probably heard the shocking story, reported worldwide, of the discovery of mass graves in Canada containing the bodies of what were then called Indian and are now called First Nations children sent to residential schools.

What you heard was exactly that, a story. It is not true.

Legal Insurrection - Boston University Students Argue Free Speech Doesn’t Apply to Conservative Writer. Free speech is only for people who say things we agree with. Or something.

Boston University’s Student Government Association (SGA) recently demanded the school adopt new “LGBTQ+” measures after Michael Knowles spoke on campus, which the body did not consider an exercise of free speech. [SNIP]

“We fully believe in freedom of speech and expression, however there is a line between free speech and hate speech that must be drawn,” the resolution stated.

Earth-bound Misfit - Dear Texas DPS, It's Called Gunfighting. Look It Up.

This is what the Cult of Officer Safety has brought: Cops who won't do their jobs when the job gets real. I cannot, for the life of me, imagine the old-school cops who had spit-shined shoes, hickory nightsticks and Colt or S&W revolvers covering in fear like those guys.

Allah's Willing Executioners - Food will become extremely expensive, warn German farmers as cost of living crisis soars

Impro Guns - Plumberbusses. Home built firearms from plumbing pipe.

Slam fire pipe shotguns in 12 gauge and 28 gauge used by Argentinian street gangs.

View from the Porch - Automotif CCCII... You should read the entire thing, and see the photo in question.

What amuses me is when I post a picture of a car like this and someone gets all assmad because this dude didn't dress his Barbie doll the way the commenter would have dressed it if it were his.

The Other McCain - Ukraine: Bad Week in the Donbas

The optimism that followed Russia’s retreat from Kharkiv earlier this month has now been replaced by apprehension for the critical situation farther east in the Donbas.

SiGraybeard - Absurd Headline of the Week

From Accuweather:

Asteroid the size of 350 giraffes to fly past Earth this week

I'm so out of touch that I've never even seen anything measured in numbers of giraffes. What does "the size of 350 giraffes" size mean?

Jonathan Turley - President Biden Repeats False Claim about the Second Amendment

It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. I have received calls from media for years about this claim and it does not improve by repetition. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.

Again from The Other McCain - Carjacking While Pregnant. Media Bias? What Media Bias?

Perhaps the CDC should issue guidelines on this subject, although most expectant mothers probably don’t need to be told this: Engaging in armed carjacking is not recommended during pregnancy.

Chicks on the Right - How Our Fractured Societal Priorities May Have Influenced The Police Response In Uvalde

Essentially, she lays out how American society has spent the last 2 years of COVID willing to sacrifice children in the name of the supposed “greater good.” Protecting teachers from a 99%+ survivable virus at the expense of the educational, psychological, social, and physical fitness of children. Forcing unnecessary experimental vaccines on children who have almost 0% chance of dying from the virus. Masking healthy children for hours a day, every day, despite the science showing it to be unnecessary and ineffective. For 2 years, adults have been willing to sacrifice their children’s wellbeing in order to provide security for adults, when in times past, adults would give up everything to provide security for children instead. And apparently Uvalde maintained this new children-last precedent.