Tech Dirt.  The death toll of police so far this year stands at 29, hardly a “War on Cops”.  Nevertheless, Congressman Ken Bucks wants to make attacking a cop, something that is already a felony, a federal hate crime.  Insulting to those who are actual victims of hate-motivated crime, attacked for their religion, race, ethnicity, gender, etc.  As the author of the article notes, cops choose to be cops, while victims of hate-motivated attacks don’t have the luxury of choosing their race/gender, etc.

Lame attempt to justify his thuggish campaign manager’s manhandling of her.  Daily Beast

Sheldon Richman on terrorist motivations: “It’s not hard to fathom why the full story of terrorism is not acknowledged by officials and pundits: it would draw attention to what the U.S. government and allied states have long been doing to people in the Muslim world. Nearly all Americans seem to think it’s a sheer coincidence that terrorism is most likely to be committed by people who profess some form of Islam and that the US military has for decades been bombing, droning, occupying, torturing, etc. in multiple Islamic countries. Or perhaps they think U.S.-inflicted violence is just a defensive response to earlier terrorism. (I might be giving people too much credit by assuming they even know the US government is doing any of this.) When the US military isn’t wreaking havoc directly, the US government is underwriting and arming tyrants like those in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere. And just to complete the picture, the US government fully backs the Israeli state, which has oppressed Palestinians and occupied their land for many decades.” Antiwar

Children make up a third of the 3,000 civilian deaths during this assault.  UN estimates that 82% of the population is in desperate need of humanitarian aid, since the Saudis have bombed all the hospitals, ports, and other trade centers. Yahoo News

CEOs whine about Pentagon not helping enough to secure foreign military sales for their companies. Yes, they arm the world’s governments too.  Governments that pay with the US dollar. National Defense Magazine

But what are they actually doing? No worries, the Political Class would never allow her to be indicted. Commentary

Techdirt.  The dead murderer’s phone ran on iOS9, but the FBI has a case against Apple in New York over a phone running on iOS7.  What gives?

Aeon.  “Humanitarian” interventionists do nothing more than unleash a bloodbath to prevent a rumored one.

They need to know how the feds were able to break their security, in order to close the leak. Wall Street Journal

Truth Out.  There are plenty of things that are legal to do in the presence of a cop, but there are also plenty of people either dead or in the hospital for doing those things in the presence of a cop.