REPUBLIC REBORN

They use the stolen funds to buy surveillance goodies. Vice Motherboard

Things are looking good for marijuana, but a punitively prohibitionist Trump regime could sue states, impose crushing taxes, or unleash a torrent of SWAT raid on pot businesses. Associated Press

Slate, of all places, provides a few reminders and warnings about giving cops more unregulated technology.

On the whole, body cams for cops are a good thing.  Provided they can’t be turned off at will by the cop.  Also, there needs to be a prohibition on turning a cop into a walking real-time surveillance camera, scanning and storing every face that comes into view of the technology.

Twitter users exercise their free speech rights to excoriate the Canadian PM for flowery language about someone who denied free speech to his people for half a century. Reason

Jeff Tucker, of FEE, explains why corn has been forced upon us this holiday season.

Cold War-era missile base, built under the ice, was abandoned after the ice began crushing it. Salon

Reason’s Anthony Fisher lists 5.  Canada’s Trudeau gets appropriately roasted for his effusive comments.

See George Will’s column, Fidel Castro and dead utopianism: “Socialism is bountiful only of slogans, and a Castro favorite was “socialism or death.” The latter came to him decades after the former had made Cuba into a gray museum for a dead utopianism.”

High Times.  Sheer insanity made a normal aspect of day-to-day existence in some parts of the globe.

But Singapore’s got nothing on the murder spree currently underway in the Phillipines: 4,605 murdered by either police or vigilantes since Duterte took office on June 30.

From BBC.  Charlton Heston had some good ideas as well.