The TPP would sabotage efforts to curb global heating in several ways.

This is a natural consequence of the way it was drawn up. For each area of business, the US government asked the companies in that area what they wanted. The fossil fuel companies asked for policies that will help them.

Fundamentally, control of greenhouse gas emissions is good for the people, so it's what democracy will do if it works right. The TPP is a business-supremacy treaty with some secondary support for unregulated trade. What these treaties do is weaken democracy and give business more power.

Right-wing groups are 7 states away from triggering a constitutional convention that could rewrite the US Constitution in unpredictable ways.

The richest 20 Americans own more than half the population. To spread the wealth, vote for progressives.

Five San Francisco thugs shot Mario Woods dead. They said he had a knife and wouldn't drop it — though he made no move to attack them. Maybe he did have one.

If I were in that situation, I might be in real danger, even if I were holding a gun — since I have no training, skill or experience in such a confrontation. However if five thugs with pointed guns think they are in danger from a man with a knife at his side, they must be incompetent.

A thug has been convicted of a felony for pointing a gun at a man's head. The man had done nothing to warrant attention; the thug was showing off how much power he had.