The latest harmless prank in San Francisco is to turn a Smart car on its side or its front.

This operation is basically harmless. It has some chance of causing scrapes or breaking a lamp, but minor property damage should not be a felony. Evidently California has made its laws too harsh.

Stephanie Greene was convicted of manslaughter because she breastfed her daughter while taking morphine, which was prescribed for her horribly painful and disabling injuries.

This article argues that there was a medical error in the prosecution's reasoning as well: that normally only a tiny amount of morphine would get into the milk, not enough to have an effect on the baby.

But even if that were not so, you can't blame someone for taking a prescribed painkiller because of harmful effects she was not warned of.

Australia's policy towards Israel and Palestine under the previous (Labor) government was determined directly by campaign donors.

A campaign against sexism appears to condemn all explicit sexual advances as "harassment".

Brandeis University cancelled its plan to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree because of her criticism of Islam's cruelty to women.

Anyone that this shoe fits deserves to feel unwelcome everywhere in the world.