An Indian diplomat in the US faces criminal charges for paying a domestic servant less than the minimum wage and lying about it in her visa application.

The servant is also Indian. Indians should cheer that the US is doing something to protect poor Indians from exploitation by the Indian elite. Reportedly it is a long time since an Indian diplomat was arrested. It has probably been an even longer time since Indian servants' wages were protected in this way.

The strip search seems excessive, however, for the nature of the accusation.

US border thugs interrogated two New York Times reporters about their journalistic activities as they were returning to the US. Now the Committee for Public Safety (oops, Department of Homeland Security) says it has no record of this.

Everyone: call on Philadelphia not to allow advertising in its public schools.

60 Minutes Is Now in the Spin Business.

The FDA will move to ban anti-bacterial soaps unless they demonstrate health benefits.

The bactericides can cause harm, and there is a possibility that the killing of bacteria may lead indirectly to the spread of asthma because people's immune systems don't get trained as they should be.