Okay, this dude I'd vote for. Libertarian Senate Candidate Sean Haugh Talks About Smoking Pot on the Campaign Trail, Drinking Underage in Gay Bars - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "Matt Laslo of Bills and Brews has interviewed Sean Haugh, the Libertarian Party's candidate to represent North Carolina in the Senate. Haugh's poll numbers are greater than the margin between the two major candidates, so he's been attracting more coverage than most third-party candidates get. The headline here is that Haugh tells Laslo he not only has smoked marijuana in the past but has continued to do so during the campaign, a question he answers with direct (and perhaps slightly tipsy) honesty. He also talks about going to Tulsa's gay bars when he was 15 because he knew they'd sell him beer. And then there's the part where he says it's "stupid to take" PCP. When Laslo follows up by asking whether it's stupid to take LSD too, Haugh says he's "not going to judge that.""
History is instructive. The CIA Used Nazis (and Lots of Them) to Fight Commies - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "The New York Times has a reminder today that our federal agencies tend to be largely amoral when it comes to pursuing whatever it determines to be in its interests. Fighting a cold war against those evil Communists? You know who else hates the Russkies? Nazis! So the CIA employed at least 1,000 known Nazis as spies and informants during the Cold War. And the agency helped conceal their ties to protect them from possible prosecution by the Department of Justice as late as the 1990s."
Can't Stop The Signal. Meet "The Reason," A New Metal 3D Printed Gun - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "The weapon was made mostly out of stainless steel with store-bought grips, using an EOS M280 3D printer. It chambers 10mm ammo and features the word "Reason" printed in the slide, and the preamble to the Declaration of Independence on the front of the grip. The unique trigger was designed to look like Mutchler's last initial "M." Mutchler says all the work, including the inscriptions, was done via CAD and required no post-cleanup." 
Self Defense > Non Violent Resistance. Why Malcolm X Is a Second Amendment Hero - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "“For centuries,” he writes, “firearms have been indispensable to black liberation: as crucial a defense against tyranny for Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. as for Sam Adams and George Washington.” Cooke is correct: Civil rights and gun rights are inseparable... Malcolm X may have a deservedly mixed reputation, but the famous photograph of him standing at the window, rifle in hand, insisting on black liberation “by any means necessary,” is about as American as it gets. It should be celebrated just like the “Don’t tread on me” Gadsden flag. By not making that connection, the movement is losing touch with one of its greatest triumphs and forsaking a prime illustration of why its cause is so just and so crucial. If supporters of the right to keep and bear arms want their pleas to be heard in their proper context, they might consider talking a little less about Valley Forge and a little more about Jim Crow — and attempting to fill their ranks with people who have known much more recently what tyranny really looks like."
Bat-Five.
Continued militarization of domestic law enforcement/when you have a hammer everything is a nail. 24 Armed Cops and a Military Truck Dispatched to Take Money from Old Man - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "How many cops does it take to collect a civil judgment from a 75-year-old man? The town of Stettin, Wisconsin evidently believed the answer was 24—and an armored military vehicle for good measure. The full might of the Stettin police force was dispatched to seize $80,000 from the elderly Roger Hoeppner, who restores antique trucks and old pallets on his 20 acres of property. Hoeppner originally got himself in trouble with the town because his junk collection violated certain zoning and sign ordinances. After years of legal disputes, a judge ruled that he would have to pay $80,000 in fines and attorney's fees for the town...
Marathon County officials aren't apologizing for their tactics. Sheriff's Capt. Greg Bean said officials expected to have to seize and remove tractors and wooden pallets to pay the judgment — hence the cadre of deputies. He also said what while Hoeppner was never considered dangerous, he was known to be argumentative. Bean said deputies had to handcuff Hoeppner because he was not following all their instructions, but did eventually agree to pay the $80,000 judgment after a visit to a bank — accompanied by deputies. Bean also said the armored truck was summoned only after Hoeppner initially refused to come out of his house...
"People may not always understand why, but an armored vehicle is almost a necessity now," Bean said. You heard it here first: A small-town cop thinks an armored vehicle is a necessity in order to remove harmless old men from their homes and confiscate their property."
#logic
Can't imagine why people don't trust those in authority. Don't Want Nude Selfies Stolen? Don't Let Cops See Your Phone - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "A team of CHP officers is now under investigation for a years-long "game" in which they stole and traded private photos from the phones of women they arrested. None of the officers have been charged so far, but last week CHP Officer Sean Harrington, 35, confessed to stealing nude photos of a woman he arrested on DUI charges and admitted that he and other CHP officers have been swapping such images for years."
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