France's constitution may be changed to support long-term repressive "states of emergency".

The main points of the deal agreed in Paris.

Paris climate agreement \u2018may signal end of fossil fuel era\u2019, according to optimits.

This agreement could very well start a process leading towards truly curbing global heating. I fear we can't afford to lose that time in getting started. The agreement will still raise global temperatures 3 to 4 degrees centigrade. The problem is, it involves "no action, just promises". When a country adopts a long-term emissions target without policies that will realize it, it may never adopt suitable policies. By the time the target is not met, it is too late.

Atheists in Lincoln, Nebraska, booked all the exhibition space in the state capitol building so that no sectarian exhibit can be presented about Christmas.

It is not right to promote a religion in a state capitol building. It is also not right to censor any view by cornering the market on places to present it, but the atheists didn't do that. There must be plenty of places in Lincoln, outside the capitol, where manger displays for Christmas can be set up — churches, for instance.

"Until governments undertake to keep fossil fuels in the ground, they will continue to undermine agreement they have just made."

A number of interesting points about Bernie Sanders.

If Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, I won't vote for her. She's a plutocratist, part of the problem rather than the solution. If we keep voting for the lesser plutocratist , our government will get more and more plutocratist. I will vote Green.

I support Sanders because he's not just a lesser evil. He's good.