A notional "child tax credit" will be used to make the Republican tax cut plan appear less skewed towards the rich.

The reason I say "notional" is that the poor people it pretends to help won't get much benefit from it. Basically, poor people don't pay a lot of federal tax, so tax reduction can't help them. What they need is to receive welfare benefits and not to be charged for things like education and medical care.

Josh Walker was put on trial in the UK just for having a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook.

Nobody should be prosecuted for having a copy of a book. Such censorship makes a state extremely dangerous.

The troll supports free speech for students so much that he has nominated a head for the DoE's Office for Civil Rights who has made a career of banning the student movements to pressure Israel to end the occupation of Palestine.

Perhaps the troll supports freedom of speech only for Nazis.

We must not impose censorship of statements merely because they are nasty, cruel, and hateful.

Rajoy has abolished the Catalan government after the latter made a declaration of independence.

The Catalan government should not have done that, since it doesn't have a clear mandate to do so. The participation in the referendum was too small to constitute a mandate.

Rajoy has also closed down an investigation into violence by the Spanish thugs during the referendum. Covering up for violent thugs is a long-standing practice with Rajoy. Then Rajoy called an election in Catalonia. If the election is held fairly, and does not exclude the prominent supporters of independence, I think it will be a good thing. It will show the will of Catalans better than the referendum, which would have been imperfect even if the national thugs had not attacked voters.