ABC News.  On May 26, 2015, cops raided Sky High Holistic, ransacking the place.  They destroyed what they thought were all the cameras and then proceeded to help themselves to some “cookies”.  They joked about kicking the amputee owner in her nub, after the knuckle-dragger was informed that the owner knew the raid was going to happen.  The video may shake your faith in the pure character of “our men and women in uniform”.

From Reason: “Apple is getting the last word before Tuesday’s court date with a final brief, which does not pull punches, either rhetorically or technically. It blasts the Justice Dept. for misreading (probably deliberately) the context of previous decisions invoking the All Writs Act (legislation intended for the courts to use to force compliance to legal orders in certain situations) and trying to get the courts to completely ignore both the consequences of conscripting a private company to produce software on demand, as well as the consequences of demanding a weakening of phone security because it may help (possibly, but maybe not) the government get useful information.”

“…a violent outgrowth of chronic political dysfunction and economic underdevelopment affecting large parts of the Islamic world, exacerbated by deep-seated  sectarian divisions and the pernicious legacy of European colonialism and further complicated by the presence of Israel, all together finding expression in antipathy toward the West and especially the United States.”  LA Times

A complex problem, highly inconvenient for those who believe the only solution is to bomb them until the sand glows.

Yikes.  The Border Patrol got their own drones a decade ago, and have since lent out their unmanned spy planes to other agencies 700 times.  Homeland Security is getting its own fleet too.  Congress loves the idea, and even holds something called a “drone fair” on Capitol Hill.  The BATF has $600,000 worth of drones, and they have the gall to say they don’t use them.  And then there was the admission last week by the Pentagon that they flew spy missions over the US.  But don’t worry. You’ve got nothing to hide, right?

Breitbart, not a site I’d normally link to, but.  Constant water-drinking during debates, repeating sentences, and yes, consuming a pill in public, all point to something off-kilter about Rubio.  Not that he had the pill addiction of a JFK, though, or his own personal Dr. Feelgood, as Kennedy did.

Yeah, probably.

It’s amazing listening to the interventionist fantasies of the Presidential candidates, as if the US has a way to pay for it all.  We ran dry long ago, the culprit being a gullible voting populace that bought into these fantasies.  It’s cathartic, to believe that, through the alchemy of politics, we really can have something for nothing.  Well, the tab has come due, and the world is tired of dollars.

There is also a macabre humor in the way that many middle-aged Trump supporters, who previously voted in the authoritarians who wrecked the country, think they’re a part of some type of “revolution” that going to Make America Great Again.

“Without principles we drift”-Hayek, from Individualism: True and False.

From Market Watch.  This story has a creepy, Big Pharma aspect to it, but still interesting.  Epidiolex, the drug, is designed to treat Dravet Syndrome, and is pending FDA approval.  All well and good, but why not just completely legalize marijuana and let people grow it and treat themselves?  That wouldn’t be a patentable solution, while something with the name “Epidiolex” probably is.  Which means companies like GW Pharmaceuticals are setting themselves up to be against marijuana legalization as a matter of policy.

After over a decade of fighting tech-free Third World insurgents to a stalemate, one has to wonder: how would the US do against a real army with real wartime technology?  Forbes.

From The Onion.  Probably a WaPo headline a few weeks from now.