Dozens of UK employees involved in arms procurement are working directly for arms companies.

It would take a 60% tax bracket to stop the growth of inequality in the US. Let's do it!

The article explains a lot more about the causes of growing inequality and what methods would or would not stop it.

The latest UK right-wing technique to divide people is to condemn poor people who are fat.

Many poor people can't afford non-fattening food, or can't buy it near where they live. If the proposal were to correct these problems, all the poor would rejoice. But that would be too helpful for any right-wing politician to consider. Their goal is to find excuses to punish the weak.

I predict that their "treatment" will consist of cutting welfare benefits for the obese, to compel them (and their children) to go hungry until they slim down.

Many states punish prisoners for using social media (usually, being used by Facebook). A single post can be punished by a year's solitary confinement.

Solitary confinement for extended periods of time is a form of brainwashing and should not be allowed at all.

Rehabilitation includes teaching prisoners better life habits, and not being used by Facebook is a good habit. But this is the wrong way to teach it.

The South Carolina law seems to punish even writing an article to be posted on the internet.

The Right to Free Speech Means Nothing Without the Right to Offend.

If we surrender to murderous religious fanatics by silencing views that offend them, it will mean one can offend only decent, civilized people.