200,000 Colombians protested the US-Colombia free trade treaty, as part of a national strike.

Of course, the government said the strikers are controlled by the FARC and called them "terrorists". The FARC are terrorists, but not the biggest and worst terrorists in Colombia. That honor goes to the state-sponsored paramilitaries.

The EPA buried its own evidence that fracking was dangerous, and Americans are increasingly organizing to block it — and now it turns out that the amount of gas that can be retrieved is much less than was thought.

In other words, we have to launch a massive program for renewable energy.

Obama hates our freedoms — he wants the Supreme Court to rule that thugs can search people's phones without a warrant.

Assad has agreed to cooperate with UN inspectors who are investigating use of chemical weapons.

If it is too late to detect the gas on the site, maybe autopsies can confirm that gas was used. The crucial question is who used it, and maybe some evidence about that can be found.

Assad and his supporters claim it was a false-flag operation by the rebels. I can't put it past them, but I think it is more likely that Assad's forces attacked with gas.

Growing up in poverty tends to stunt children's development permanently.

I'm sure it is true in the US too, though I don't have a study to point to. This is why we need a strong welfare system that lifts children out of poverty, not one that does only the bare minimum such as Clinton gave the US.

Of course, we also need to make it easy for poor people to avoid having children they can't afford to raise, by providing reliable contraception and abortion gratis to all women.