A court ruled that Israel can't keep Shuafat totally deprived of water. So now Israel provides water between 03:00 and 08:00, the time which is most harassing for the inhabitants.

The US government illegally confiscated Nader El-Dajani's passport without a hearing, and refuses to say why, or that it has any accusations against him.

A church in North Carolina has illustrated the contradiction between Christianity and persecuting the homeless, with a bronze statue of Jesus as a homeless person sleeping on a bench.

I reject Christianity as a whole, but there are a few aspects of it that are admirable, and this is one of them.

Here's an example of the sort of persecution that a sincere Christian can't do.

A detective in Utah examined prescription records of hundreds of employees of the Salt Lake City area looking for something suspicious, to try to find who stole some morphine.

I hope that the Fourth Amendment blocks this warranties search, but I don't think that is enough. Putting everyone's prescription records in a central database is asking for trouble.

America's war machine, far bigger than any other country, should be reduced so as to spend the money on things we really need.

Of course, we should increases taxes on rich people and companies too.