Australia plans massive surveillance using facial recognition.

China's example shows that this will repress democracy. The supposed targets may be the terrorists, but since they are so rare, the important targets will be dissidents and whistleblowers. Rather than limiting use of the system's data, Australia must reject it totally.

The "new Democrats" that yielded the Democratic Party to plutocracy in 1992 are still trying to hold on to control of the party.

1992 was the last time I voted for a Democrat for president. These "new Democrats" are not as bad as Republicans, but they are pushing in the same bad direction — just not pushing quite as hard.

Should we fear that a job guarantee will be a giant boondoggle? Here's why it is not a real issue.

A boondoggle is government spending that doesn't produce results that make the people better off. The US government puts billions of dollars into boondoggles — military spending, private prisons, etc. It makes them bigger every year.

If we transfer a lot of those funds to a job guarantee program, the boondoggle could well be smaller, if at least those jobs are designed to do useful jobs.

The bully shows his contempt for human life by disregarding the law requiring a report about civilian casualties from drone attacks.

A report from the US government about this would not deserve trust anyway, but this demonstrated contempt for all civilians that might be killed will smooth the path to killing more of them.

Millions of Americans (including millions of children) are on the edge of being kicked out into the street. Saboteur Carson's plan to cut housing subsidies would push many of them over the edge.