Pentagon Gets Serious About Laser Guns, Rand Paul Gets Serious About Presidency, Brooklyn Gets Serious About Snowden: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.7.2015 9:00 AM

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• It's Rand Paul presidential announcement day! Drink every time you see the phrase "daddy issue." 
• Best headline of the week? "'Bees are good,' Obama says as children scream."  
• The Pentagon is getting serious about developing laser weapons before China out lasers us.
• How Rand Paul differs from his dad on economic issues. 
• Sen. John McCain will seek a sixth U.S. Senate term in 2016. 
• A massive, mysterious bust of Edward Snowden showed up on a Brooklyn war monument yesterday, but by the afternoon NYPD had it removed.  
• Robot spiders. In space. 

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.