A list of congressional and gubernatoral candidates known to have Koch backing.

Protesters in Paris, when their banned protest aganst killer thugs was attacked by thugs, fought back and set fire to a thug car.

Fortunately, the thugs in the car got out.

I can't blame people for fighting back when attacked, but one should not escalate so far. If you sink to the level of thugs, you will be no better than them.

Boston used face recognition systems to try to identify every visitor to a large concert.

This was a test. If and when it works, they might use it on every street corner. We need laws to limit how the state and private entities can use such systems to accumulate data about people.

A Scientist Weighs Up the Five Main Anti-Abortion Arguments.

As always, it is a mistake to repeat the spin term "pro-life" with which the enemies of abortion rights twist the issue. I support the right to life for human beings as much as they do; many of them support that less than I do, since they are in favor of the death penalty.

Australia's National Sorry Day is an apology to the aboriginal people who were massacred, often in cold blood, by British colonists.

I can think of some other countries that should have a National Sorry Day. For instance, the US. Also Argentina, in which the intentional killing of indigenous people en masse continued into the 20th century.