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.
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
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.
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
Who in god’s name would pay these millions to hear her speak for 45 minutes? NY Post
How the Pentagon ruins the lives of NSA whistleblowers. Snowden learned the proper lessons from the fates of whistleblowers whose lives were destroyed even though they went through “the proper channels”.
There’s no such thing as perfect security at airports, despite being the perfect place for vulgar displays of security theater.
Reporters who believe the government are stupid, a Pentagon official told Morley Safer in 1965.
Robert De Niro to produce documentary on vaccines
A convincing case for Drug War reparations
Jeff Tucker on Thomas Carlyle, the Founding Father of fascism