Three Arkansas thugs are being investigated after a video showed them holding a man down and punching him.

I welcome public denunciation of non-fatal instances of violence by uniformed thugs. If that becomes widespread, it could potentially end official tolerance for violent thugs.

They accuse the victim of having started the fight. One can hardly believe thugs as witnesses for such a thing, as they are accustomed to testilying, but it might be true. But that question doesn't change anything significant. To teach everyone not to engage in violence is too much to hope for, but we must teach that to official thugs.

The CIA couldn't find any connection between the Palestinian human rights groups and terrorism, but the US still won't stand up for them.

US citizens: call on Democrats to combat the lies Republicans tell about increased IRS funding.

The four big global grain companies are using the global food shortage to gouge. This calls for a windfall profits tax.

Instead of doing this one industry at a time, how about applying it to all businesses that are making big profits — counting bonuses and stock buybacks and part of those profits?

Why forgiving student loans should not be limited to people with under a certain limit:

*[It] isn't that people with high incomes will be denied student debt relief; it's that people eligible and desperate for relief will get lost in the bureaucratic maze that income-based restrictions inevitably create.*