The US faces a shortage of teachers, partly caused by demonization of teachers and government policies blaming them for bad outcomes. Together with low pay.

The assassin that attacked Salman Rushdie was influenced by bizarre interpretation of Islam. Well-educated Muslims condemn such acts. This article explains why.

I think what we can learn from this is that fanatical leaders can distort any religion into a murderous cult.

Compare, for instance, with the Christian fanatics that murder abortion doctors, and the Christian fanatics that want to imprison women for abortions. It would be wrong to conclude that Christianity advocates killing doctors or imprisoning women. What we should conclude is that Christianity has the potential to be a basis for fanaticism.

So does Islam, and so do various other religions.

*Anti-Union Companies are Anti-Worker and Anti-American.*

Examples described include Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. As well as Home Depot, Ikea, Lowe's, Target and Walmart. And Costco and Trader Joe's. Also Chipotle, Starbucks, and McDonalds.

And don't forget Tesla.

A former thug plead guilty of falsifying the search warrant that led to the shooting of Breonna Taylor by thugs.

Oil-prospecting companies plan seismic testing in wide areas of ocean near Australia's coasts.

Surely there is no room in the carbon budget to actually extract oil from any new oil fields they might discover. So it makes no sense to let them search.