The FBI Says It Can't Disclose Its Records Because Then the Public Would Know How the Bureau Works.

It is spreading further. The former head of the Department of Homeland Security has applied that organization's approach in monitoring faculty and students at the University of California. Professors condemn this snooping.

She refuses even to discuss what kinds of monitoring are being done. Supposedly our own safety forbids giving us any say in how much we are monitored. That's a recipe for tyranny — in DHS or in UC.

Professors should set up their own local networks, and relay data in and out of UC encrypted, to protect themselves and the students.

The article refers to security breakers as "hackers". To avoid giving us hackers a bad name, please use the term "crackers" for that.

Study: DNA Test Agreements Disregard Consumer Privacy.

Like many articles about new abusive practices, this article legitimizes the known, current abuses. I think that is a mistake. We should not limit ourselves to opposing further changes for the worse. We must campaign to get rid of the existing evils too.

Fires in California ruined a large part of the vineyards' harvest.

Sanders and Clinton got roughly equal numbers of delegates out of the Iowa caucuses.

Clinton has backed off attacking Sanders' push for universal health care, and has returned to supporting the idea. I guess that attack was backfiring.

Several important primaries will be held this month and on March 1. If you would like Sanders to win, please volunteer to help his campaign — don't put it off.

US citizens: Phone the White House at 855-239-1424 to call on Obama to cancel the new nuclear cruise missile.