Morning links

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

 

Author: S. Smith