Walmart bullied Washington DC into dropping a minimum wage bill by threatening to cancel new stores in that city. Now it has cancelled some of them anyway.

It was foolish to trust Walmart -- after all, it did not sign a contract to build those stores and keep them open for at least 10 years. But there was a bigger folly in giving Walmart what it wanted: the very idea of trying to keep Walmart in DC was foolish. Walmart reduces jobs, compared with other stores. Walmart pays workers so badly that they need public assistance.

I recommend that DC raise the minimum wage high enough to drive Walmart out completely.

In New Orleans, when poor people are charged with crimes, public defenders refuse to take their cases; so they remain permanently in jail.

When Clinton gets an endorsement from a union or an activist organization, it's always decided by the group's leaders -- and often the leaders are business executives that prefer Clinton for selfish reasons.

60% of sales of alcoholic drinks in the UK are to people with a drinking problem.

France talks about extending the state of emergency as long as PISSI continues to exist.

This means, in effect, forever. If there is a repeat of the November attacks, they will say, "See, it is still needed." When there is no attack, they will say, "See, it works!"