Sharif Mobley found a way to phone his wife and told her he was being tortured in Yemen's prison.

It appears that the Obama regime and Yemen's regime are collaborating to imprison him without trial. He faces criminal charges, perhaps bogus, but the Yemen regime is sabotaging the trial by refusing to bring him to court.

Japan's "scientific" whaling has produced just two peer-reviewed papers since 2005.

The papers were based on 9 out of the 3600 minke whales Japan has killed during that time.

Reports say that Assad has agreed to US bombing of ISIS forces in Syria.

If Assad does indeed help target the attacks, that would be useful since they would be less likely to hit the wrong targets. But I worry about one thing: would Assad dishonestly supply coordinates of non-ISIS rebels, claiming they were ISIS?

How pay toilets were eliminated in the US.

I wish other countries would pass similar laws.

Obama continues to propose to boost exports with antidemocratic "free trade" treaties. The existing ones have not had that effect, but the US Trade Representative is giving Congress fudged statistics to pretend that they did.

Even if they did boost exports, it would not be particularly good, because that principally means more profit for US businesses. Nowadays that growth does little good for US workers, due to the antidemocratic effects of these same treaties. So there is no reason for Americans to make increased exports a goal at all.