Liberty Links 8/9/16

24 links today. Enjoy.

Donald Trump’s Finance Chair Is the Anti-Populist From Hell (Must read of the day, Steve Mnuchin is bad news, The New Republic)

Fueled by Small Donations, Donald Trump Makes Up Major Financial Ground (New York Times)

Thomas Friedman Goes to the Wall (Great takedown by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)

Did Bill Maher Lie About $1 million Clinton Donation? (The Hill)

A Party of Lemmings Led by a Zombie: Why We Need to Keep Bernie Sanders’ Vision Alive (TruthDig)

New Super-PAC Emerges to Support Evan McMullin’s Run for President (This guy will go nowhere, The Hill)

Trump Flops with Silicon Valley Donors; Clinton Falls Short, Too (Reuters)

Bill Clinton Got Millions From World’s Biggest Sharia Law Education Firm (Daily Caller)

Hedge Fund Donations: $123 Million to Hillary Clinton, $19 Thousand to Donald Trump (Breitbart)

Landlord Nation: Boomers’ New Retirement Plan Is Millennials Paying Rent (Neo Feudalism, Bloomberg)

College Isn’t Always the Way to Get Ahead. It’s a Way to Not Fall Behind (Some depressing stats, Bloomberg)

These Landlords Are Making a Killing on College Students (America’s youth are getting hosed in every imaginable way, Bloomberg)

AT&T, Comcast Fight Utility Pole Reform To Slow Google Fiber’s Arrival In Nashville (Crony capitalism at its finest, TechDirt)

State Supreme Court Says Secret Software Used In Sentencing Determinations Not A Violation Of Due Process Rights (TechDirt)

How the Gary Johnson/William Weld CNN Town Hall Was a Disappointment in Libertarian Terms (Reason)

House Freedom Caucus Member Huelskamp Loses Primary (The Hill)

Leonardo DiCaprio to Host $33,400-a-Plate Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles (Of course he will, MarketWatch)

Clinton Heads Back to Hamptons for $33K-a-Ticket Fundraiser (Of course she will, New York Post)

DePaul Cancels Conservative’s Speech (The Hill)

Japan Foreign Minister: Environment Surrounding China-Japan Ties ‘Deteriorating Markedly’ (World War 3 is coming, Reuters)

Saudi-Led Attacks on Yemeni Capital Resume, 13 Killed (Reuters)

Pictures Appear to Show British Special Forces on Syrian Frontline (The Guardian)

Rand Paul Destroys Hillary Clinton Over Benghazi (Old but good, YouTube)

Tisch Says We ‘Live by the Sword’ at Loews as Gold Bet Doubles (Bloomberg)

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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