Far more politicians hid their illegitimate wealth via shell companies than the private rich hid their rightfully acquired wealth.  Reason

Was to be renamed “Antonin Scalia School of Law”, or ASSLaw/ASSoL for short. Hehe.  CNN

Wanted to fabricate evidence necessary to get illegal search warrants.  Copblock

Despite being right less than half the time, drug-sniffing dogs provide a great excuse for cops to search your car.  The courts, formerly very accommodating to the “evidence” these dogs provide, are slowly beginning to turn on these intrusive tools.  Alternet

Of course, when lives are actually on the line, like when an animal is depended on to sniff out a landmine, people use rats.

Independent Institute.  Sicker people signing up for care, cost spiraling out of control, overuse of medical services, etc.  This has been known for some time, so the real question is: what comes after Obamacare?

Another article on the subject, this time from The Atlantic.  Inaugurating a Drug War on paper is creating black market chaos in practice.  Criminals and police militarize, drugs get harder, deadly synthetic drugs arise, billions are spent on a futile crusade that that exacerbates the problem to the point where law enforcement are solely combating the side effects of Prohibition.

One such side-effect is the outbreak of heroin use.  Sufferers of chronic pain get addicted to Big Pharma opioid pills, but are unable to continue paying for the expensive prescription, so they head down the street to the local heroin dealer to get their fix.  It’s entirely man-made, and the finger should be pointed squarely at the War on Drugs.  Legalize it all!  Let the free choices of millions of people fix all the problems that ham-handed government prohibition created.

Bombing people he isn’t sure are even terrorists.  Or, how to incite terrorism in as many hearts as possible, in the shortest amount of time. Foreign Policy

Antiwar

Doesn’t realize he’s actually signing into law a $0 minimum wage for untold numbers of the most vulnerable Californians, as well as tiny businesses in that state.  The minimum wage is a god-send for gigantic, established business, who can sleep better knowing that their small-business competition just took a big hit.     Zero Hedge

From The American Conservative.  Daniel writes: “War crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen are treated as accidents even when they aren’t. Despite the fact that they illegally declared an entire region of the country to be a military target, Saudi claims that they don’t attack civilian targets deliberately are often accepted at face value. Client governments are usually given the benefit of the doubt even when they don’t deserve it.

That still doesn’t explain why there isn’t more outrage about the humanitarian crisis created by the Saudi-led blockade. Considering that Yemen is suffering one of the greatest contemporary man-made humanitarian disasters, how is there not more outrage against the governments responsible for creating that disaster? How is it that it can be greeted with such indifference outside of the country where it’s happening? I offered some possible reasons last week, and I’ll say a little more about it here.”

How much media attention has been given to the Brussels terrorist attack?  Now, how much have you seen any mention of the Saudi war on Yemen in the news?