Criminalizing homelessness, Houston style: it is a crime to get food out of a dumpster, or give food to the hungry.

The most ironic thing is that the people responsible for this are Christians, and yet they have criminalized acting the way Jesus was said to act.

US newspapers quoted an anonymous US government spokesman claiming that there are Iranian soldiers fighting in Syria, and presented it as certainty.

US citizens: call for dropping charges against Kaitlyn Hunt, accused of having a girlfriend a few years younger than her.

While I am prepared to believe that bigotry against gays was part of the motive for this wrong, the wrong is independent of that. the prosecution would be equally wrong if either or both of the teenagers involved were male.

US citizens: call on Obama not to support a bill to require back doors in all communication software.

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US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.