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-by Skip KaltenheuserIt was a long hard slog to publish Lucifer's Banker. Had Brad Birkenfeld managed to get his book out say, a year or so earlier, we might not be staring at the political train wreck we are now. It might have changed the political landscape, perhaps the standard bearers. Maybe even elevated different issues for the last lap beyond the cursory checklist now fed us. But I’m glad it’s arrived.

Cops wearing cameras catch a case of "contagious accountability"; More towns are telling cops to stop busting pot; and the people pushed back the Feds on the kratom ban.

Cops wearing cameras catch a case of "contagious accountability"; More towns are telling cops to stop busting pot; and the people pushed back the Feds on the kratom ban.

Cartoon by Steve Sack ©2016, The Minneapolis Star Tribune (source)by Gaius PubliusA follow-up to this recent piece — "A Clinton Speech to Millennials That Will Work" — in which my hoped-for Hillary Clinton says, among other things, that she will start a criminal investig

The cost of college compared to other consumer costs, 1985–2011 (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius Publius "I feel like a lot of the stuff Hillary does, you can see when she is trying to, like, earn the youth vote, and it just doesn't work," Nick Chanko, 20, who goes to school in Montreal but votes in New York,

Cost of college, 1985 through 2012, compared to other consumer costs (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusI'd like to put a simple idea in front of you, a connection between the predatory student debt scam and the military.

Of course our world is in shambles. The best salaries are paid to the people whose professions add the least value to society.

Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers by @rcbregman https://t.co/9R9v57pZWg pic.twitter.com/xPlyVRnoBA
— Evonomics (@EvonomicsMag) September 28, 2016

Up for debate, down to fight and guns in the hood + this day in history w/'Abbey Road' and our song of the day by Beck on your Morning Monarchy for September 26, 2016.