Obama has put off the decision on the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline until after the elections in November.

I think Obama intends to approve the pipeline and has intended this all along. He knows what harm it will do, and if he cared greatly about those problems, he would have cancelled it long ago. I think he is maneuvering to reduce the condemnation he will receive for approving it.

But this does not mean campaigning against the pipeline is useless. If we can make the approval painful enough, and require evident enough lies, he may feel compelled to cancel it.

The UK is considering selling taxpayers' tax return data, "anonymized" (though that may not do much good).

The US and UK overthrew the elected government of Azerbaijan in 1993 and installed a dictator, in order to help BP get a good deal over exporting oil from Azerbaijan.

This enabled BP to drill oil wells in the Caspian sea, and one of them exploded.

BP's men lied to Congress, saying said their operations were safe and had had no serious problems. So BP was allowed to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and promptly had another explosion.

An honest government, not corrupted by oil companies. would never trust BP in any way ever again.

The US government focuses on the threat of terrorism by Islamist fanatics, while mostly disregarding right-wing terrorists who in fact do more harm.

I am not saying that the US should treat right-wing extremists as it has treated Muslims, denying them freedom of expression and association on strained pretexts and fishing for crimes to accuse them of, or as it has treated animal rights activists, imprisoning them for running a web site and claiming that is "terrorism". That's unjust no matter who the target is. However, there is surely a middle ground between excess and nothing.

Chris Christie is making a second try to drive a natural gas pipeline through a protected wildlife reserve.