A business-motivated scare campaign says Iran carries out lots of cyber attacks against the US, but the claim is bogus. Many are not real attacks, and the rest might not be by Iran.

A judge sent General Petraeus a message about leaking government secrets by fining him less than he gets paid for one speech.

That is because Petraeus leaked the secrets for private selfish reasons. Heroes such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, who leak secrets for ethical and patriotic reasons, are treated much worse.

The harm done in the US by mismarketing of drugs is around $27 billion dollars a year, which is comparable to the amount that Big Pharma spends on research.

Patents encourage mismarketing just as they encourage research spending, so it could be that patents do so much harm through mismarketing alone that it outweighs their incentivization of research. But the raw numbers exaggerate the benefit of Big Pharma's research, since it focuses research on developing the next viagra rather than on curing dangerous diseases.

California presents an example of school reform that rejects the austerity and standardized tests that plague most of the US.

The Republican Party is having a billionaires' primary.