They do it, and will continue to do it, because there are no consequences.  Cop Block

Federal judge in Florida is weighing whether to release those as well. Daily Beast

From The Guardian: “A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission’s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” Lehman said in an interview, suggesting that the commission may have made a mistake by not stating that explicitly in its final report. “Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.”

What, again, was this entire War on Terror about, if our government protects the one foreign power known to have been involved in 9/11?  Perpetual war is the health of the State.

US spent $750 million on education in Afghanistan and is unsure if it even made a difference

Military Labs Are Too Careless With Deadly Diseases: Report

CDC also mishandling bioterror germs

America’s Unregulated Shampooer Menace

Pentagon Prepares for War in Space

Seven Ways School Has Imprisoned Your Mind

The irony behind Obama’s fear of artificial intelligence

No, You Don’t Have an Obligation to Vote

How Austin, TX, drove out Uber and Lyft

Why Brexit Would Be a Boon to Donald Trump

Society Is Messing With Your Sleep

Justin Raimondo welcomes the bonfire of neoconservative foreign policy

250 U.S. troops won’t fix the chaos in Syria.  Sent there to die in the burning sands in service to a foreign policy of perpetual war.

So…Bartenders Can’t Refuse to Serve Pregnant Women in New York City

There’s a petition up that calls for James Comey, Surveillance State toady, to resign as head of FBI

The FBI routinely tells local cops to lie to judges about the use of Stingrays.  The FBI also routinely tells local cops to engage in “parallel construction”, a nefarious activity designed to, in this case, hide the use of a Stingray

Former Facebook employees blow whistle on the supression, by Facebook, of conservative news

Trump’s economic plan: More government

U.S. drone program kills based on what a target might do, not on what he or she has done

The War on Drugs corrupts character on both sides of the law. Reason

Watch the amazing video. Copblock

The recklessness of the political class is mind-boggling.  Remember, we pay in lives, debt, and dollars for the tab that these scoundrels run up. Antiwar

Equality under the State’s boot shouldn’t be applauded. Antiwar

They dealt a major win for cigarettes, and a devastating blow to the only effective smoking-cessation device known to man. FEE