Incoherent interventionism.  Chicago Tribune

It’s the terrorism they’ve imported and allowed to incubate within their borders.  From Justin Raimondo’s latest column: “In short, the problem of terrorism in Europe is an internal phenomenon, not something that comes from the outside. The Europeans imported it – and, as Germany’s welcoming of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the war-torn Middle East dramatizes, they are continuing to import it. Now they are living with the consequences…

…What Brussels also showed is that the universal surveillance championed by the War Party as a necessary corollary of the “war on terrorism” would not have stopped the attacks: the ISIS cell consisted of two brothers, which not only ensured against infiltration but also made it next to impossible for any but the most intrusive surveillance to have had any effect. Indeed, the key to stopping the attacks was intelligence – which the Belgian authorities ignored. It turns out that Brahim el-Bakraoui had been deported from Turkey and the Belgians had been warned he was dangerous. They ignored the warning.”

$353,000-per-person event.  RT

Zero Hedge.  Trump death threats abound, but how would the media behave if this were happening to Hillary?

Encryption keeps us far safer than government ever could. The Hill

Newsweek.  This should be the top headline in every major media outlet that’s been covering the painkiller/heroin/fentanyl epidemic.  The only solution to the opioid problem is the simplest solution imaginable: legalize marijuana.  Give people a safe, natural alternative for pain relief and they’ll stop buying black market heroin.  To repeat: legalize the drugs the US has been at war with for the past 70 years.  Drug Prohibition, by limiting the choices of people who want to get high for one reason or another, has created the opioid epidemic, in the same way it created the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980’s.  Conscripting doctors in the War on Drugs won’t work; blowing another hundred billion in tax dollars won’t work; further militarizing the cops won’t work.  Only liberty will correct the State’s screw-ups.

Says the FAA. Daily Times

Cop Block.  Almost too hard to watch these videos, but we must.  This is a reality that must not be ignored.  Think of the mental state of someone that has no qualms about killing a loving pet.  In this particular video, the dog is clearly happy, and probably used to unfamiliar people at least being somewhat friendly in return.  This badged piece of garbage, however, is unique in society, in that he is willing to shoot the dog in the face.  So cops are trained to do this, I get it.  But why, in every video that depicts it, does each cop appear so eager to fire off a shot?  What type of people are applying for a position on the local PD?

This time over funding for the rebuilding of the US nuclear arsenal. Foreign Policy

Two days after Brussels bombings.  Belgian minister urges public not to rally for victims.  Telegraph