Thugs in Alabama killed Robert Earl Lawrence for refusing to show identification. All he did was refuse.

He brought a stray dog to an animal shelter, but refused to show a driver's license, so the staff called the thugs. How gratuitous. They could just as easily said, "We won't take the dog from you without your identification, so just let it run loose outside the door." It would have been stupid, but no more stupid than what they did.

The FCC's weak ISP privacy rules are too much for the trumpets. They plan to eliminate them.

ISPs should respect customers' privacy by not taking any note of their traffic, except pursuiant to a specific court order.

Chinese ivory carvers are coming to grips with China's decision to ban the ivory trade.

It makes no sense to eliminate elephants so that Africa can accommodate more humans.

Shutting down the legal ivory trade will not stop the illegal trade.

Sessions wants more private prisons.

He says privatization "seem to work better", but better for whom? Perhaps for his future employers, some years from now.

Facebook provided personal data to Mastercard.

The data was provided in anonymized form, but Mastercard could reidentify the data by correlating it with other data.