Noah Christiansen student called his congresscritter and said representatives should "get off their fucking asses" to enact gun control. His high school punished him personally as a way to pretend there is something very bad about the expression "their fucking asses".

The ACLU says that this violated his constitutional rights.

Christiansen's statement did not insult the congresscritter, even though the congresscritter may well have deserved to be insulted. Christiansen used the word only to express vehemence.

The congresscritter is a Republican jerk, but all he did here was make a complaint. Even if we disagree with his views, we should not condemn him for stating those views.

The ones who acted wrongly are the school officials who punished Christiansen. They deserve a protest campaign. And here's to tell Christiansen, "Right on! Please don't apologize!"

North Carolina Republicans are trying to take full control of the courts to stop the courts from resisting their plans for rigging elections.

Courts have admitted unscientific forms of forensic "evidence", and create insuperable obstacles for the wrongly convicted to get an appeal.

Big chocolate companies have funded marketing to amplify possible minor benefits while lobbying to hide the sugar from our attention.

The cheater discussed with his lawyer the possibility of pardoning Flynn and Manafort.