Centralized fraud is suspected in a close congressional election in North Carolina.

British Columbia won strong public support for its carbon tax by making it revenue-neutral: the money it raises is put into other tax cuts.

That policy takes the sting away, for the middle class. But not for poor people, because they don't pay much in other taxes so tax cuts won't reach them much.

One solution is to replace parts of the tax cuts with some aid for the poor.

Amnesty International accuses Iran of covering up the murder of thousands of dissidents in 1988.

Iran killed dissidents during elections much more recently.

Giving congresscritters proportional votes would enable proportional representation of the voters.

It is straightforward to extend this system to cover more than two parties, but that would require even more congresscritters.

The US deportation thugs, with help of local thug departments, jailed Peter Sean Brown and were going to deport him to Jamaica. They simply ignored his statement that he was born in the US, and insisted he was Jamaican, because he had gone there as a tourist once.

He was jailed for weeks.

Everyone makes mistakes, but there is no excuse for clinging obstinately to a mistake.

I would expect that trying to deport him to Jamaica would have failed. Jamaica must have no record of him as a citizen, and must have a record of admitting him as a tourist, so I expect it would not have let him in.

Or would it have? Is Jamaica so afraid of the US that it would accept anyone the US claims is "Jamaican"?