Suggested reading links through Jan. 9, 2016

With apologizes aforehand, as I have a bit under the weather of late, so here is a list of Random Thoughts for you to poke through and read that I have found interesting and worthy of at least considering the views or the news contained therein in the raw and without annotation or commentary. I just want to keep my topic slate board as short as possible, and not really being up to providing the commentary or annotation ... I choose just to pose the links. If this is inadequate I apologize but please bear with me. The old walrus who once was a newspaper editor and news editor sometimes has to just do what he can.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/429215/print

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0103-williams-black-victim-self-definition-20160103-story.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/thinking-harder-about-pol_b_8908436.html

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/04/opinions/levin-oregon-takeover/index.html

http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/fixing-how-we-fight-the-islamic-states-narrative/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YRamCRtPII

http://nypost.com/2016/01/02/myth-of-the-cop-killing-epidemic/

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/deterring-chinese-aggression

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/biomedical-science-studies-are-shockingly-hard-reproduce-180957708/

http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/freedom-of-association-and-antidiscrimination-law-an-imperfect-reconciliation/

http://fee.org/freeman/safe-spaces-can-t-be-diverse/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429135/american-politics-government-reviled

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429191/america-needs-strong-community

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/04/liberals-take-low-road-oregon-stand-off/eIPwBIpBMejp0k7HmR6NoJ/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_TodaysHeadline&s_campaign=

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/04/rancher-family-reports-to-prison-does-not-endorse-oregon-siege.html

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/no-heroes-in-the-west-fire-feds-and-freeloaders/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/the_oregon_standoff_with_ammon_bundy_isn_t_evidence_of_a_racial_double_standard.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2nd-amendment-protects-knives-long-theyre-not-made-cooking-180957718/

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/01/06/nra-president-wayne-lapierre-delivers-the-truth-about-background-checks-n2100581?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/asia/looming-threat-north-korea/

http://undertheradar.military.com/2016/01/the-13-funniest-military-memes-of-the-week-1616/

http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/living-with-fog-and-friction-the-fallacy-of-information-superiority/

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2016/01/07/rendezvous-with-reality-in-2016-n2100533/page/full

http://fee.org/freeman/3-kinds-of-economic-ignorance/

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/07/who-should-control-the-west/federal-land-management-has-been-disastrous

http://www.hoover.org/research/end-modernity?utm_source=hdr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-01-08

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/07/10-myths-about-guns/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429423/left-betrayal-america

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/sanders-wealth-inequality-stat/

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/the-barbarianism-of-paternalism/

http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/we-are-terrorized-why-u-s-counterterrorism-policy-is-failing-and-why-it-cant-be-easily-fixed/