USA Today

Which is why I don’t engage in it.  And excessive social media use also leads to depression, as The Independent makes clear:

“Of the 19 to 32-year-olds who took part in the research, those who checked social media most frequently throughout the week were 2.7 times more likely to develop depression than those who checked least often.

The 1,787 US participants used social media for an average 61 minutes every day, visiting accounts 30 times per week. Of them a quarter were found to have high indicators of depression.

Bloomberg View.  Police States don’t reduce terrorism, they transform the government and the police into terrorists themselves.  State-sanctioned domestic terrorism in the form of harassment, surveillance, warrantless searches and seizures, arrests, kangaroo courts, and yes, the killing and persecution of people based on their ethnicity or beliefs.  This is how you radicalize, how you inflame violent thoughts in those who are under the spotlight of the Police State.  It’s how governments create terrorism.

The Guardian.  More troops and more taxpayer billions are being are being sent to Iraq to fix the problems that arose only after the 2003 invasion.  Intervention always begets more intervention, either at home or abroad.

Techdirt.  So, even though the Department of Justice believes the DEA’s massive, secretive, wiretapping operation in California is probably illegal, they still want to use some of those wiretaps in their cases.

Here’s the detailed story of the DEA’s massive wiretapping dragnet.

Physicians Face Moral Dilemma In Conscription on War on Drugs.  Painkiller crackdown is putting doctors in a tight spot.

U.S. Marines Enter Ground Combat in Iraq to Defend Oil Fields

Airline pilots are being worked to death, says whistleblower

Barely Half of Student Loans Are Being Repaid

Can a Single Injection Save Soldiers Suffering From PTSD?

Why Socialism Always Fails

Two Thirds of Patients’ Hospital Debt Unpaid

Ghost galaxies are 99.96% dark matter

Why do sunbathers live longer than sun dodgers?

From the wonderful Jeffrey Tucker at FEE.  The chief goal of the politicians is to solidify and increase their power, not help their citizens.  They work to divide the citizens against each other, lest they unify against the bureaucrats getting rich off their labor.  Pretty honest, Disney.

American Conservative and Russia Today

Over $500 billion for 2017, ostensibly to deter “Russian aggression”.

Tech dirt.  When in doubt, make an arrest?

Institute for Justice.  Unsurprisingly, when cops see large amounts of cash, they’ll take it.  It’s just too easy for them to keep it once they’ve got it, even if no criminal charges are ever filed.