New York's night-mayor Bloomberg, and the thug chief Kelly, are still trying to defeat the bill to limit arbitrary searches.

The bill would also increase civilian control over the New York thugs, who have been found to systematically repress human rights.

Bloomberg explicitly advocates increased racism in these searches.

Such racism is wrong, but it's a secondary aspect of the wrong. The root of the wrong is allowing thugs to search people arbitrarily.

Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan is to extract more fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, Obama's plan isn't very different from that.

Some plutocrats are drawn to geoengineering schemes to try to compensate for our CO2 emissions.

The sulfate scheme is toxic and fails to prevent the other harm done by CO2: ocean acidification, which can kill a large fraction of the life in the oceans.

Removing CO2 by fertilizing plankton would prevent both problems. It might be better than allowing the disaster to happen.

However, we could still probably prevent the disaster through renewable energy, which would be better than stopping it using drastic measures.

What It's Like to Get a "National-Security Letter"

(that is, a demand to give data to the state secretly and you'll be imprisoned if you ever tell anyone).

Now that Republicans and Democrats have created a shortage of jobs in the US, Republicans blame individual Americans for having no work.