US citizens: call on Obama to drop the Hyde amendment from his proposed budget.

The Hyde amendment forbids use of US government funds to pay for "abortion as a method of family planning" — for instance, avoiding having a baby because you know that would be a very bad idea.

SCROTUS may insist on putting it back, but Obama need not propose it.

(SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.)

Of 3000 "moderate" would-be candidates for Iran's parliament, only 30 have been permitted to run.

Iran remains a theocratic tyranny, notwithstanding its limited layer of democracy, but that would be no reason to continue sanctions against Iran. The sanctions were never going to make Iran respect human rights.

We've been conned by the rich predators of Davos.

Google has agreed to perform special censorship of Youtube for the government of Pakistan, deleting views that the state opposes.

This will help the illiberal Pakistani state suppress dissent.

A British woman is suing the thug department, because an undercover thug proposed marriage to her in order to spy on her union activist friends.

She wants the list of undercover spies published so other victims can get an explanation (and perhaps compensation) for their mysterious losses.