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Unionized federal minions may get even more taxpayer-funded perks

Spy chief loses temper when senator calls him out on spying

“Jeb Bush, the un-candidate”

This is what an Empire’s budget looks like.  Note the ritual fearmongering over North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran to justify the Pentagon’s $583 billion slice.

Government lawyers think open records give the people too much power

There is no libertarian case for Bernie Sanders, obviously

Prohibition created the environment of brutality that led to this…

…young mother and father, and 7-month old baby shot to death in Mexico.  Contrary to the article, the country is not experiencing a “drugs crisis”, it’s experiencing the predictable violence that springs up in a Drug War.  Prohibition incentivizes the creation of powerful cartels who use violence to enforce their market share.  That’s why innocents are being slaughtered.  It’s a failure of public policy, and those with decision-making power over that policy and continue to support that violence-and-crime-inducing policy have blood on their hands.