Another casualty of thugs in schools: a 12-year-old boy who clowned in gym class by burping was arrested and charged with a crime.

He was suspended from school for the rest of the year.

Gush Shalom maintains a list of products made in Israeli colonies in occupied Palestine.

Gush Shalom can no longer advocate boycotting these products, because Israel has made it illegal to call for a boycott of products of the occupation -- flagrant contempt for political freedom.

Since I am not in Israel, I can and do advocate this boycott.

The Democratic Convention management unfairly managed the event to favor Clinton, excluding Sanders supporters from the podium and entirely excluding his volunteers (whom he was supposedly entitled to invite) from the event at the last minute.

Australia has taken more action to discourage solar energy, by cutting off the promised purchase of electricity from homes and businesses. Whose pay are those politicians in? We can guess.

Scotland has eliminated the "right to buy" public housing, introduced by Thatcher, which has created a terrible lack of public housing all across Britain.