Something to remember on this Memorial Day: governments always need a good war to grow and sustain power.  That explains the incessant provocations along the Russian border, as well as the South China Sea.  On this Memorial Day, remember all the wars-in-utero that Washington bureaucrats, politicians, and lobbyists are eager to see transpire. But US citizens will pay for the wars in blood and money, and then will be forced to suffer under the resulting power-grab by government.  Remember the stupidity of war, so that the stupid wars cease.

Here’s an idea: rescind Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.  He’s been at war longer than any other President in U.S. history, and has set a deadly precedent in the use of drones to carry out extra-judicial killings.

What, exactly, are we memorializing on Memorial Day? Unless we’re reflecting on the tragic stupidity of most U.S. wars, the idiots who dragged the nation into them, and the soldiers who died fighting in those unnecessary wars, it becomes nothing more than propaganda for the next stupid war.  Better to abolish it, says Justin Raimondo.

David Boaz offers Memorial Day wisdom in an oldie-but-goodie from 2010

Some cops really dislike police accountability activists

Mises Institute president Jeff Diest offers wisdom and skepticism following the Libertarian Party convention

How much substance would emerge from a Trump-Sanders debate? Hint: none whatsoever.

From Politico: Does the Libertarian Party Finally Have a Chance?

From Foreign Policy: White House Blocks Transfer of Cluster Bombs to Saudi Arabia.  After having sold the Saudis millions of dollars’ worth of the deadly, cowardly civilian-killers in recent years.

From The Guardian: CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than US.  British citizens care less about their Surveillance State than Americans do theirs.  I’m sure former NSA director Michael Hayden admires that about the Brits.  He also wishes someone would put Edward Snowden on a “kill list”.

From National Geographic: Antibiotic-resistant superbug found in US

From The Atlantic: How to avoid the post-antibiotic apocalypse

From Quartz: Why does gin and tonic taste so good?

Activist Post’s Kristan Harris compiles a list of the Warfare State’s rules for marginalizing and “debunking” dissent.  Those anonymous comments on social media might just be an NSA/CIA disinformation artist seeking to disrupt your ideas before they gain traction.  Seeing those suspicious, negative comments means you’re probably doing something right, and should keep doing it.

Lucy Steigerwald writes on Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, and neoconservatives’ ignorant, vitriolic response

Will Grigg writes on the latest legislative atrocity

The NSA’s strange guide to the internet

ABC News.  Disgusting.  This was a murder, and the cop who shot the innocent father five times is a murderer.

The excuse, as always, is, “I thought he was reaching for a weapon”.  Hopefully this time the incantation will fall flat, and his Blue Privilege will have run out.

John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus, writes on the high cost that reckless US drone strikes will bring. Antiwar

Yikes. The Hill

Meaning, he only wants the US to have them.  And how much worse than a nuclear weapon has been the destruction of Iraq, Libya, and Syria?  Calling for an “end to nuclear weapons” sounds pretty meaningless.  Better to call for an end to foreign military intervention, nukes and all. Washington Post

Four times as likely to commit suicide as middle-aged blacks.  Pat Buchanan explores the topic here.

The cop allegedly dragged the guy into the street and arrested him for jaywalking, then gave him the option to fight him for his freedom.  The guy didn’t fight, because he knew it was a ruse to justify getting murdered by the other cop.

Don’t we all live in fear that the cop pulling us over will be someone like this?

The Intercept: Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

Here’s a nice list of Hillary’s speaking fees from 2013 to 2015. Totaling a cool $21 million.

Nearly 1,000 health workers were killed in conflict zones in 2014 and 2015

The Mexican military’s high body count and the War on Drugs.  As said before, the Drug War corrupts character on both sides of the badge.

VA wrongly pronounces 4,201 veterans dead, stops sending benefits

Here’s a list of the nine biggest defense contractors

All-around crappy cab service follows Uber’s exit from Austin, TX

Kelley Vlahos wonders whether we’ll be seeing women draft-dodgers any time soon. If the Warfare State gets its wish and has a shootout with Russia, we just might.

Justin Raimondo explains why he didn’t vote for Trump, despite the “isolationism” that the Trump campaign awoke in the American public

Scott Sumner explains why almost all regulation harms the very people it was intended to help

Jim Bovard explains why US foreign aid incentivizes corruption within the foreign governments that receive it. That aid gives those recipients an independence from their citizens that they wouldn’t otherwise have.

FEE: 12 Articles Every Aspiring Economist Should Read

Justin Raimondo exposes Hillary’s role in the transformation of Kosovo into terrorism-exporting thug state

Lucy Steigerwald wonders if Hillary voters care about the mass death and mass destruction that a President Hillary’s inevitable wars will bring.  Democrats seem to only care, or notice, Republican wars.

Along with war, Hillary is pretty bad on guns too.  Restrict them domestically, distribute them widely and in abundance throughout the Third World.

Legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia was neutered at the last moment

The mother of this Somali-American is very upset that her son was entrapped by the FBI.  There are no real terrorists, so the government has to create them.

So, the US Nuclear Force still uses floppy disks

The use of stun guns by police in practice amounts to little more than torture

Are cops able to perform a simple cost/benefit analysis of when it’s appropriate to engage in a high-speed chase?  It doesn’t appear to be the case.

There appears to be an inverse relationship between GPA and creativity

The disturbing death of Louis Slotin.  So nuclear scientists in the 40’s teased the plutonium core of a nuclear weapon with a beryllium shell, inducing a nuclear chain-reaction, pulling the shell just before critical mass.  Well, Slotin accidentally dropped the shell into the plutonium…

Are black holes actually dark matter?

DC elites can’t survive without hordes of moronic voters