The US imposed a gag order on Reason magazine, aiming to deny the people who were the objects of a subpoena delivered to Reason any chance of contesting it.

The subpoena was absurd anyway, making the danger greater.

Manual cleanup of the California coast oil spill has cost 65 million dollars so far.

The pipeline company is paying.

All pipeline operators should be required to demonstrate that they have the funds on hand to pay the costs of cleanup after a likely accident.

The global corporate land-grab includes parts of Europe.

Some for-profit hospital chains in the US charge patients on the average over 10 times what Medicare pays hospitals for the same things.

A man whose car was in trouble on the highway made the mistake of appealing to LA thugs for help. They shot him in the head, then cuffed his hands behind his back as he lay on the ground bleeding from the head.

If you don't hang around with thugs or gangsters, you probably have little experience in responding to a command to "drop the gun." If you hear this command and you have a gun, you may understand it quickly. But if you have no gun, it may take you a couple of seconds to realize it refers to the towel in your hand. If thugs don't give you that much time, they have in effect decided to risk killing an innocent person.

This man is still alive, but he could may die from the wound. If he survives, he may be permanently brain-impaired.