The University of California has found excuses to keep right-wing speakers off campus and close a satirical newspaper.

I disagree deeply with Ann Coulter, some of whose statements are not designed to make sense when studied for more than 30 seconds. But that is no reason to refuse to let her speak on campus.

80% of refugees trying to reach Europe by sea are fleeing war or violence.

The US government had a scheme to promote the confused concept of "intellectual property" by arranging a staged conversation on Twitter. The government would post, and various entities with an interest in spreading confusion would "respond". The government proposal called it a "fake Twitter feud".

Whatever they say using the term "intellectual property", it spreads a gravely misleading idea about real laws: the idea that they fit that term.

That term was chosen as propaganda in the 1960s and pushed hard starting in the 1970s. Law schools didn't use it much until 1990.

I refuse to use it, and so can you.

Remember Hobby Lobby? Its owner set up a scheme to secretly import ancient cuneiform tablets from Iraq, and tried to cover his tracks.

Instead of prosecution, he only had to pay a fine and hand them over.

Massive peaceful protests in Hamburg blocked some of the participants in the G20 meeting. That is good because it makes the participants aware of the popular disgust.

Other protesters rioted, which is wrong and harms the cause. Reportedly thugs escalated the violence.

At a similar international meeting in Genova in 1998, some of the "black bloc" rioters were unmasked as thugs — provocateurs. I wonder if that is the case today in Hamburg.