Links for Monday, June 27, 2011: Marine Killed in Drug Raid; How to Create a Job; Intro to Constitutional Law; others….

1. KGUN 9 | Marine killed in drug raid

2. Raw video: PCSD helmet cam clip shows SWAT raid and shooting

   The raid that killed marine Jose Guerena. Story above.

3. DRCNet | Tucson SWAT Team Cleared in Killing of Ex-Marine

   The officers were mistaken in believing Mr. Guerena fired at them. However, when Mr. Guerena raised the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle in their direction, they needed to take immediate action to stop the deadly threat against them.

   Police need to try to understand: when a team of them kick down someone’s door for no good reason and infiltrate with guns drawn, they are guests in the other people’s homes.

4. This American Life | How To Create a Job

   I’m not necessarily agreeing that cutting government and regulations is a “race to the bottom”, but they are asking the right questions about government claims of job creation.

Links for January 3, 2010: Deregulation? D.E.A.? Bulliion? Pinkwashing?

One of my favorite speaker/authors.

Tom Woods | “Deregulation Caused the Financial Crisis”

Tom Woods hints at debunking. It’s a tough point to get unless you know all the details. I must admit that I do not, but I’d like to learn. See also the comments on Tom Woods’s facebook page.

NYTimes.com| WikiLeaks Archive – Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach

Like many of the cables made public in recent weeks, those describing the drug war do not offer large disclosures. Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting influence of big traffickers, the tricky game of figuring out which foreign officials are actually controlled by drug lords, and the story of how an entrepreneurial agency operating in the shadows of the F.B.I. has become something more than a drug agency.

Read: “the corrupting influence of drug prohibition.”

Links for November 16, 2010: Some Psychological Stuff, Some Fallacious Stuff, others….

1. Freedomain Radio | The Bomb in the Brain Part 4 – The Death of Reason – The Effects of Child Abuse

   Another fascinating diatribe from Stefan Molyneux. My question is: does this not apply equally well to libertarians and anarchists? Is libertarianism not just another ideology?

2. TED.com | Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff

   Large organizations, including government, which is of course the largest organization of all, have actually become completely disconnected with what actually matters to people. … What behavioral economics shows, time after time, is in human behavior and behavioral change there is a very strong disproportionality at work: that actually what changes our behavior and what changes our attitudes toward things is not actually proportional to the degree of expense entailed or to the degree of force that is applied.

3. Philly.com | Some political parties remain outlaws in Pa.

   After invalidating more than 30,000 Nader-Camejo signatures on dubious and highly technical grounds – for example, because signers used informal names such as “Bill” instead of “William,” or because their current and registered addresses did not match – Commonwealth Court removed the candidates from the ballot. Then it ordered them to pay their challengers more than $80,000 in litigation costs.