The US has privatized housing for soldiers, with the unsurprising result that some people are getting rich and soldiers live in intolerable conditions.

An object lesson in spinelessness: someone who passionately hates Apple's decision to eliminate the headphone jack, and hasn't got the guts to do anything but moan.

A fool and his freedom are soon parted.

How can you develop the strength not to be herded? Practice saying no! Practice when it is very easy, and in a year you will learn to at least consider saying no every time some company wants you to submit to mistreatment.

The Democratic Party is going to require presidential candidates to demonstrate grass-roots funding in order to be included in debates.

Persistent pressure from climate activists have made the mainstream media cover the climate danger — a little.

Fiji says that Neil Prakash does not have Fijian citizenship and cannot apply for it. Thus, Australia seems to have rendered him stateless.

Once Australia adopted the policy of making bets like this, it was certain that it would lose a bet sooner or later.

What if he did have Fijian citizenship even though he has never been there? I question the legitimacy of telling a person, "You are now required to live in that country over there, which you don't know, where you don't know anyone, and you don't speak the local language."

I criticized the US for doing that — for instance, deporting to Mexico a man who was indeed a Mexican citizen but had been brought to the US as a small child.

Countries sometimes need to punish their own citizens, after a fair trial, but should never exile them. Not even after a trial — which Prakash did not have. Australia exiled him without a trial.