Daily Beast. Hard to feel sorry for a maniac with a gun, and easy to side with the cops in this instance, but next time it might not be a gunman. Disregard for human life is displayed by certain cops all the time, it’s not something society should ever tolerate.
Or dancing, or giving shoes to a homeless man, helping an old lady across the road, etc. It’s nice, but a total PR stunt. The latest is a video of members of the embattled Albuqurque PD playing basketball with some kids. Charming, except for the loaded guns flopping around on their already-crowded utility belts. CopBlock
Elites are continuously engaged in a campaign to grow government to mammoth proportions, piling regulation and taxation upon our backs. We pay for their schemes, their wars, we bear the burden of the “regulation” they impose on the economy, and all the while they rake in the money and power. But once they get all that money, they hide it via some obscure Caribbean firm, never to be seen again. Again, there is nothing wrong with building a fortune in the open market, and wanting to keep that money. What I find criminal are the fortunes built by destroying competitors through oppressive regulation, as well as all the other ways in which the Political Class funnels wealth away from the creators of that wealth. For more, read this piece from The Intercept.
TSA needed a way to randomly pick who will be selected for a random search in the Pre-Check line, so of course they would find a way to spend as much as possible in process. It’s someone else’s money, after all. Flipping a coin would be cheaper. Geek
The most interesting aspect of the video is how quickly the cop obeys the judge, sending 50,000 volts via a stun cuff on the defendant’s ankle. Yahoo
The Establishment is going down Titanic-style. These are good times for liberty. FEE
Trigger-happy cop missed a briefing on the drug sting operation just before it went down. One interesting point: ending the Drug War would put an end to these deadly “drug stings” that all-too-often get innocent people killed.
Rigger of elections spills the beans on how he did it. Bloomberg
Antiwar. Despite all the past experience with attempting to train “rebels”, the Pentagon is going at it again with more tax dollars to fund another batch of Syrian fighters who will, like all the others, immediately hand over their new weapons to Al-Qaida and ISIS as they scatter into the night.
Washington DC’s given Mexico $2.5 billion in Drug War aid over the last 8 years, and nothing but destruction has come of it. The reason is this: you can’t beat a black market with guns. Winning the Drug War in Mexico requires the simplest, cheapest solution in the world: legalize the drugs produced by the cartels. Prohibition created a black market vacuum that was quickly filled by cartels looking to get rich from the high demand for the drugs. Legalize it all, let anyone produce, buy, sell, these drugs, and the cartels pot of gold will vanish. It’s tragically simple, how many thousands more will die until Mexico’s leaders admit it? Daily Beast