Qatar Airways treats flight attendants as slaves, in effect. They are forced to stay inside their dormitory.

They can be fired for things as personal as marriage or pregnancy or hidden tattoo, or for things as minor as posing for a picture. Then they are trapped in Qatar.

The first simple thing we can do is never use that airline. I already won't, since I distrust Qatar's government so much I don't want to even transfer there.

Clinton talks about tackling Wall Street, but we can't believe this given the money she and her private foundation have accepted in recent years from banksters and other big business.

When Bernie Sanders says these things, his life shows he means them.

By the way, I don't believe most of the people who are appointed or elected in the US government, or in lobbying companies, are seriously looking for the way to do good in a corrupt environment. I think they are looking for the way to make the most money, and trotting out silly excuses to pretend their actions are good.

Republicans, working as usual for special interests, have stuck text in a spending bill to sabotage the FCC and negate net neutrality.

An NRA board member blamed the people in the Charleston church for not carrying guns to "protect" themselves.

The fact is, in the US only whites are really allowed to carry guns. Even where carrying guns is officially legal — and even when they are toys, or air rifles — black people who carry them risk being killed by thugs.

But it would not really have helped if they had had guns.

To shoot a crowd of unsuspecting people, not caring which ones you hit, is easy. To shoot a specific person who's on guard, and avoid hitting anyone else, is much harder.

Everyone: call for dropping all charges against Kenlissia Jones for taking a drug that may have caused her abortion.