Would it really be more restrained, and diplomacy-based? Independent

And seek to abolish it at every step.

According to new study out of Oxford.  Not too surprising, but scary nonetheless. The Intercept

She cooperated with everything but didn’t answer his questions, he flipped out.  Open-and-shut Contempt of Cop case. Yahoo

Defense and intelligence employees spend their time at work buying illegal porn, NSA isn’t doing a thing about it. Daily Beast

FDA Imposes a Slow-Motion Ban on E-Cigarettes, ensuring smokers have no access to the only effective smoking cessation device.

Federal Judge Rules Lawsuit Against Torture Program Psychologists Can Proceed.  How about including the torturers themselves, too?

FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers

Health Insurers’ Shift More Costs to Taxpayers in Obamacare Exchanges

Last gasps of Obamacare

Will Conservatives Rally Behind Trump?

How the TSA Ruins Lives

The “altruistic” origins of Big Pharma

Building a Beer Pipeline in Belgium

How to Survive the Death of the Sun

Yikes. Cop Block

Reuters: “Andrei Kelin, a department head at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said the proposed NATO deployment was a source of concern for Moscow. Russia once held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord.

“This would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our borders,” Kelin told the Interfax news agency. “I am afraid this would require certain retaliatory measures, which the Russian Defence Ministry is already talking about.”

Jeff Tucker reveals the neoconservative roots of the Donald’s politics of “National Greatness”. FEE

According to John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s former policy advisor.  It’s true purpose remains that of weapon of tyranny. Boulder Weekly