Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up.

The referendum in the UK shows that people reduced to poverty by globalization might grasp at any foolish straw of a false revolt, even Trump, if no real better alternative is available.

Here's a commentary that relates the matter to some experimental psychology.

The FBI's secret rules allow it to subpoena journalists' records without a court order.

This is part of the Obama regime's War on Journalism. Obama has prosecuted more journalists' sources (whistleblowers) than all previous presidents put together.

The bank GE Capital has got out of tight financial regulation by selling off parts of its business and thus making itself small enough to be exempt.

I agree that this is a success, but a big bank is a danger and the tighter regulation is not enough to make them safe. We need to make sure all banks get smaller, one way or another.

Oakland's city council voted not to allow coal export. The developer of new port facilities says he will sue.

I don't know the legalities of the matter, but when you consider how many people are killed by emissions from burning coal, and that's not even counting the effects of coming climate mayhem, I think that blowing up a coal export terminal would be justified by "necessity" defense (preventing a bigger crime).

The UK now has a policy forbidding undercover thugs from having intimate sexual relationships with people in the groups they are infiltrating.

That's good, but what about the question of whether to send thugs to infiltrate dissidents?