US citizens: call on the US to block the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

These are the two biggest US cable operators.

It should be a no-brainer to block such a merger, but the US government is too corrupt to be counted on even for no-brainers.

These two companies are both ALEC members, and ALEC supports their lobbying campaigns to eliminate local regulation of cable TV and ban public network access.

21 things you can't do in the US while black.

Congresscritters say Deputy Attorney General James Cole's testimony about snooping on their phone calls was "not entirely accurate". It was the usual misleading half-truth.

School shootings are happening in the US at record pace, and 3/4 of the shooters found their guns at home.

An ACLU victory: a federal court ruled that the government needs to get a warrant before it can access the confidential data base of people's prescriptions.

It's a step in the right direction, but access is still too easy. The state should not create a centralized data base of everyone's prescriptions.