Reuters: One in seven US adults used marijuana in 2017
Reason: ‘Cannabis-involved’ traffic fatalities fall in Colorado
Never thought I’d be linking to the Weather Channel, but…Police dog dies after being left in hot car for 6 hours
Defense One: What I learned by studying militarized policing
The Guardian: US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care?
JUSTIN RAIMONDO: John McCain and the warrior spirit in American foreign policy: “In his person, and his public pronouncements, McCain was the perfect representative of the nascent imperial class: born in the Panama Canal zone, the son of an Admiral, he was almost fated to become what he did indeed become – the archetypal Praetorian, the veritable embodiment of America’s post-World War II empire. A paladin of the cold war while it lasted, and a tireless advocate of post-cold war hegemonism, his favorite phrase was “boots on the ground,” and he championed this as a policy option for virtually every foreign policy problem confronted by US policymakers.”
The Intercept: A little-known story about John McCain and his fantasies of benevolent U.S. foreign policy
Independent: Vietnam demands Monsanto pay compensation for Agent Orange victims
Gray Zone Project: Big Tech corporations now banning Iranian social media accounts. A censored journalist speaks out.
DAVID FRENCH: Protestants should care deeply about the Catholic catastrophe
Spectator: Socialism, a crime against humanity
The Federalist: The murder of Mollie Tibbetts is a reason to loosen immigration laws, not restrict them Ed: This is an important perspective, but not quite the one I’ve had in mind as I’ve pondered the meaning of the murder. Restrictive immigration laws, along with an entire bureaucracy devoted to the intimidation and dehumanization of every person within 100 miles of the US/Mexico border creates similar outcomes to the Drug War: a black market, but this time in human labor. It incentivizes the dangerous and amoral to brave the border-hopping ordeal. The solution would be fairly simple: do a simple, quick background check for criminal history and let them in immediately. Don’t inquire where they’re going, or who they know, just let them in. Mexican immigration is an organic phenomenon: most of those who come over have relatives here and have an immediate employment opportunity. Let them in. The decent and law-abiding will then come over. Nice people who work hard are what this country appears to need. Inciting some jingoistic “protect our borders” nationalism radiates from the same source as “spread American values!”. The wonderful thing about this immigration is that these people are assimilating into the Hayekian catallactic web: they are inserting themselves into the market economy, thereby strengthening the “invisible hand” of the market, creating all sorts of wealth that will never be attributed to them by anyone in power. And, to be honest, to better protect our border, we must open the border up.
MIKE MUNGER: The origin and meaning of profits
FEE: Chicago’s electronic surveillance of food trucks is ridiculous. And probably Unconstitutional.
Big Think: We live in a zombie galaxy that died and came back to life, claims new study
GQ: Why psychedelic drugs are entering the psychiatric industry
