A.M. Links: ISIS Declares ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq, Bill Clinton Pushes Pot Legalization, Facebook Is Manipulating Our Feels

Jihadist militant group ISIS has declared that
it is
establishing a caliphate—a state ruled by strict Islamic law,
and a longtime goal of many jihadists—on the territories it
controls in Iraq and Syria.
Former Procter & Gamble CEO
Robert McDonald will be nominated by President Obama to serve
as the new Veterans Affairs secretary. “He comes with the
credentials they need at this time: management expertise and
someone who has made a living making tough decisions,” said Bob
Wallace, executive director of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Bill Clinton
urged states to step up their “laboratories of democracy” game
and start experimenting with marijuana legalization.
Though the FDA’s had ample time to meddle with small American
craft brewers and cheesemakers lately, the agency is apparently

too busy to inspect more than 1-2 percent of food imported from
abroad.
As the nation—or at least businesses and the chattering
classes—anxiously await today’s Hobby Lobby decision from the
Supreme Court, a poll shows 53 percent of Americans support
Obamacare’s birth control mandate without exceptions for
religious beliefs, while 35 percent are against it.
Organizers for Initiative 71, a measure that would fully
legalize marijuana possession in the District of Columbia, say
they’ve
gathered nearly 60,000 signatures, almost three times the
amount needed to get the issue on the November ballot.
Facebook frequently tweaks the user experience subtly for the
purpose of product development, but the company has now revealed
that some changes were part of
a psychological experiment on whether different kinds of
content could manipulate users’ emotions. The move is being widely
panned as unethical.