More Republicans face crowds of angry constituents for planning to eliminate Obama's medical insurance system.

Der Spiegel cartoon: the troll has beheaded the Statue of Liberty. It is useful of Der Spiegel to warn Americans while we may be able to prevent this.

California is considering laws to reduce the range of personal data collected by its agencies, as well as refusing to give some of it to the federal government. Both prongs are good, but the first is especially heartening. To make democracy safe, we need to limit collection of personal data by all sorts of entities.

Twitter favorizes raw emotion—not wisdom, logic, honesty, creativity or anything of independent value. The infant knows how to take advantage of that.

The troll wants to allow financial advisors to knowingly give clients advice that goes against their interest. That fits his general alignment: for banksters, against everyone else.