{"id":10022,"date":"2012-01-07T04:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/07\/american-digest\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T04:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:15:38","slug":"american-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/07\/american-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"American Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A tip of the New Year&#39;s hat to the proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">American Digest<\/a> for his link to my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/01\/paradoxes-of-illegal-immigration.html\" target=\"_self\">recent post<\/a> on the paradoxes of illegal immigration.&#0160; Via his site I came to the Powerline post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/a-weeks-worth-of-self-defense.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A powerlineblog%2Flivefeed %28Power Line%29\" target=\"_self\">A Week&#39;s Worth of Self-Defense<\/a>.&#0160; For repelling a home invasion, and separating soul from body in a manner most efficient, there is nothing quite like a shot gun loaded with double aught buck shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Speaking of home invasions, there was one in Mesa, Arizona&#0160;recently.&#0160; The&#0160;invader shot to death a young mother who was alone except for her infant and her grandfather.&#0160; A reporter described it as a &quot;home invasion gone badly.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As opposed to what, a home invasion that went well?&#0160; And what would that be, one in which there was only a rape, and terrorization of the occupants of the house, and property damage, and the stealing of property?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One more reason to oppose liberals is that they have a casual attitude towards criminal behavior, an attitude betrayed by the sort of egregious and widespread misuse of language just cited.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For more on the casual attitude towards crime, with a link to the inimitable Dalrymple, see <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/08\/britain-and-the-barbarians.html\" target=\"_self\">Britain and the Barbarians<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip of the New Year&#39;s hat to the proprietor of American Digest for his link to my recent post on the paradoxes of illegal immigration.&#0160; Via his site I came to the Powerline post, A Week&#39;s Worth of Self-Defense.&#0160; For repelling a home invasion, and separating soul from body in a manner most efficient, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/07\/american-digest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Digest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}