Obama boasts about increasing extraction of fossil fuels.

A poll finds most Americans say it was a mistake to invade Afghanistan and want US troops removed faster.

I am not sure it was a mistake. The results were good in the beginning, and if Bush had not invaded Iraq, perhaps things would have turned out well in Afghanistan.

However, things are totally screwed now in Afghanistan and the US is not achieving much by keeping the fighting going.

The Warsame case shows that civil courts can handle captured terrorists.

The ACLU approves of his prosecution, but criticizes holding Warsame prisoner in a navy ship.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, plutocrat turned political prisoner, has been pardoned.

People who get trafficked into the UK and then forced into growing marijuana get prosecuted rather than helped.

This particular problem is ultimately the state's fault, since the right approach to growing marijuana is to legalize it. However, that would not eliminate the issue of trafficking; that needs to be addressed by itself.