A candidate for mayor of New York denounces the thug department's "stop-and-frisk" practice for its evident racial bias.

However, it will be difficult to prevent the decision to search a particular person from being based on race, unless the thugs must show a specific justification for each instance. In other words, searching a person must require probable cause.

Street crime is much less than it was 20 years go, perhaps due to the removal of lead from the children's environment. Even if there was once a reason to allow thugs to search people arbitrarily, it is gone.

If current trends continue, humans will emit enough CO2 to probably cause a catastrophic 4C rise in temperature by 2041.

However, if the climate system is more sensitive than that, the catastrophe made be locked in by 2021.

Deforestation of the Amazon will mean less rain, which means giant hydropower programs will provide less electricity than expected.

It will also mean disaster for agriculture in Brazil.

Pakistan's high court ruled that US drone attacks in Pakistan are war crimes.

ACLU: President Obama, Don t Let the CIA Control the Torture Narrative.