Biden Warned Against Afghan Escalation, Cops Daunted by Immigration Law, TSA Even Mistreats the Dead: P.M. Links

Biden Warned Against Afghan Escalation, Cops Daunted by Immigration Law, TSA Even Mistreats the Dead: P.M. Links

| June 26, 2012

  • From my cold, dead hands... with a port-wine reduction.A leaked memo dating to 2009
    shows that Vice President Biden
    warned President Obama against sending more troops     to
    Afghanistan. The book revealing the memo also says Obama
    deliberately avoided downbeat CIA assessments of the U.S. presence
    in that country.
  • A proposal by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy to
    unify debt and cap national budgets of member nations is
    already running into opposition from Germany    , reducing chances
    that the continent will find itself shoe-horned into a parody of a
    centralized state.
  • Now that the Supreme Court has thumbs-upped a provision of
    Arizona law requiring police to check the immigration status of
    anybody they stop and suspect of illegal presence in the U.S.,

    police fret that the new mandate will complicate their jobs     and
    lead to lawsuits.
  • California’s state government is severely overextended and dead
    broke. So, of course, it’s … banning foie gras. Fanciers of the
    awesome delicacy are coming up with novel approaches for
    bypassing the law    .
  • Uruguay’s government says plans to legalize marijuana won’t
    draw “drug tourists” to the country because
    sales to foreigners will be banned    . So much for getting rid of
    the black market.
  • A deal ending a very public intra-family feud within the
    libertarian movement has Ed Crane stepping down at the Cato
    Institute to
    make way for John Allison    , retired chairman and chief executive
    of BBT Corp., as the new chief executive.
  • After photographing a rough arrest of a DUI suspect by Austin
    police, Antonio Buehler was arrested and charged with resisting
    arrest and felony harassment on a public servant, charges carrying
    up to ten years in prison. Private videos of the incident
    tell a story at odds with the police report    .
  • A man traveling through the Orlando airport with his
    grandfather’s cremated remains says a TSA agent
    laughed as she spilled ashes and bone fragments     on the
    floor.

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