Tuesday Links - 18 April

Meep at STUMP is up first with The French Continue to Protest Over Retirement Age Changes

I assume I can keep running this headline for the rest of the year

(Except during August. That’s the vacation season, doncha know.)

Moonbattery - Sheriff Confirms That Guns Are Not Responsible

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods addresses this task by explaining to the media and others witless enough to need to be told that no, guns are not responsible for crimes committed using guns.

The Other McCain - How Did He Get Those Secrets?

Ed Morrissey points out that nobody seems to know how or why a 21-year-old Air National Guard member would have access to all those leaked documents.

Professor David Yamane - Talking About Violence in the Asian American Community, Especially the Recent Half Moon Bay Mass Murder

I am Asian-American (half Japanese-American on my father’s side) and grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. The coincidence of this with the mass murder of 7 people in Half Moon Bay by an Asian man led to a conversation recently with Randy Miyan on the Liberal Gun Owners podcast.

Small Dead Animals - Fantasyland is More than a Themed Area at Disneyworld

The drama queens at Equality Florida have issued a travel advisory:

American Thinker - Thirty Years of Global Warming Prophecies

That's the same U.N. that was wrong 34 years ago when Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, said that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

The Other McCain again - Violent Chaos in Chicago and … Alabama?

What do we know about these “rowdy teenagers” — something everybody knows, without even having to watch the videos — that the media aren’t reporting?

Jews Can Shoot - After the Guns Were Removed, the Killing Fields Began

An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment, or forced famine.

Mao killed more people than either Stalin or Hitler during World War II. And it all began after he took away the guns.

Stump Death and Taxes with Meep - Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Policy

The big choices: retirement age, the shape of benefits (COLAs, taxable?, etc), and more… but there was a choice made before all these that influenced how all of these will turn out: total fertility rate.

Hot Air - Phonics-based education continues to make progress in school districts across the country. This links to a couple of NY Times articles that are behind a paywall, and Forbes article that is not.

Yesterday the NY Times published an article about angry parents, activists and teachers who are pushing school boards to adopt phonics-based reading curriculums. The Times correctly points out that evidence strongly suggests phonics is the best way to teach reading, even if some teachers don’t like it.