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I Never Thought I’d be Happy to Read These Words

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Setup:  Righthaven (*hawk*spit*) has been told it must pay nearly $120,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs in a suit it lost to “former federal prosecutor Thomas DiBase,” who happens to run a website dedicated to “no-body murder cases, or cases where a murder is suspected but the victim’s remains have not been located.”  Righthaven pursued a copyright suit without actually having standing to sue, and lost.

That’s good news, yes, but that’s not the part I’m really happy about.  This is, and it’s one of those mixed-blessings:

This was by far the largest fee award against Righthaven, but likely will be dwarfed by an upcoming award in Righthaven’s failed suit against the Democratic Underground.

On the one hand, I think this spells the death-knell for Righthaven’s lawsuit-farming.  On the other, Democratic Underground will probably win a major amount of cash.

Oh well, one can hope that Righthaven will vanish in a puff of smoke, and DU won’t ever see a penny!

More Truth!

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This time from (wait for it…) PBS!

“Libertarian” Professor Richard Epstein of the New York University School of Law schools PBS’s economics reporter Paul Solman on “income inequality”:

http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf

You can tell the difference between a liberal and conservative by the following test:  A liberal believes that changes in taxes have very little effect on production, but huge effects favorable on distribution. Folks like myself believe it’s exactly the opposite. Very high tax rates or even small changes in taxes have very adverse effects on production, and they do very little to produce redistribution because the money gets dissipated and taken away through the political process in ways that the most ardent supporters of redistribution will not like.

Stated at The Coalition of the Swilling: “I’m sure whoever’s idea it was has been sacked. Along with all the llama trainers.”  I don’t think so.  I can see the Leftists shaking their heads and tut-tutting the insane ideas of Professor Epstein.  And I fully expect there to be a “grassroots” movement to get him fired from his job and his property taken.

If you’ve got a blog, post this video. Help it go viral.

WTF?

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Weird traffic pattern on the blog today:

I’ve seen “googlebot” do a lot of page views in a short duration, but this has been happening all day from multiple sites. RR.com has been a common one, and the location has been all over the country. But as you can see, it’s not just one or two sites, it’s several.

WTF, over?

We’re Winning

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Say Uncle links to a story involving a home invasion thwarted by a resident with an AR-15.  From the comments:

I love this town. A shooting results in an argument over the proper shot size for perps. – “Southrider”

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There are actually many Democrats that support gun rights. The NRA grades each Congressional candidate based on their gun rights voting history. There are many Democrats with a B or better. I am surprised, though, that no one from the anti-gun establishment has commented. – “Sphereo”

I’m not. They’ve mostly taken their ball and gone home.