"The Texas man was just acquitted for shooting at the police who raided his home."

"We could close down before President Obama leaves office, and that's what we'd do if that's what is directed. If we're directed otherwise after he leaves -- even while he's in office -- to bring someone else in we'll do that. Execute the orders that are given to us."

"Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It's time for some game theory."

"To understand why the public cannot confide in government-employed police to protect private property, it is useful to consider how frequently police steal from each other – and members of the public who ingenuously donate to police-operated charities. This isn’t because police officers are under-paid; it is because their occupation cultivates a sense of privilege and contempt for other people's property."

"A blast that rocked a police station in southeast Damascus on Friday was caused by a seven-year-old girl carrying a belt of explosives, Syrian media reported. The explosion in the bustling Midan neighbourhood of the Syrian capital wounded three police officers...

'A seven-year-old girl entered the police station, carrying a belt that was detonated from afar,' the paper posted on its Facebook page. A police source told Al-Watan that she had appeared lost and asked to use the bathroom when the explosives went off. Although rebel groups have fired rockets and mortar rounds into the capital, explosions inside the city itself are rare."

"After a successful first day of evacuations in Aleppo on Thursday, Friday saw a return of myriad complications, with disputes stalling the evacuation early in the morning, and rebel gunfire leading the buses to leave the area after that first issue was resolved."

"News organisations have ended up being spoon-fed by jihadis and their sympathisers who make it impossible for independent observers to visit areas they control. By regurgitating information from such tainted sources, the media gives al-Qaeda type groups every incentive to go on killing and abducting journalists in order to create and benefit from a news vacuum they can fill themselves."

"The horrors in Aleppo are all too real. Honoring the memory of the dead in Syria will require much more serious reflection by our leadership class than what we've seen this week. Turning the Eiffel Tower into a memorial for al Qaeda's dead, and mourning our lost chance at a wider war that had no plausible happy ending, is just another grotesquerie in a long parade of disasters in this region."

"The United States Department of Justice has accused computer science student Justin Liverman of being associated with Crackas with Attitude (CWA), the group that claimed to have accessed emails from the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan in late 2015 and brought to widespread attention the vulnerability of a variety of US government computer systems to social engineering attacks."

"When the CIA targets a country for regime change, I wouldn't bet the farm on the targeted government surviving. And while this isn't quite Allende's Chile, America's increasing resemblance to a banana republic is augured in the CIA's refusal to appear at a congressional oversight committee to explain leaks in the press charging that Russian intelligence actively worked to elect Trump. So who's in charge here -- the CIA or the people's elected representatives?"

"Having worked in 'alternative' foreign-policy journalism for years, I'm familiar with this walking talking intel op's career shilling for US foreign policy, and it ain't pretty. But watching this speech made me actually feel my face turning red, my heart pump a little harder. This hack had the gall to warn us about the dangers of 'fake news.'"

"As the chart... shows, there has never been such an aggressive selling of US Treasuries over a 12 month period in history."