The governor of Mississippi has proclaimed April "Confederate Heritage Month", showing no recognition of the evil of slavery, the perpetuation of which was the purpose of the Confederacy.

I would encourage Bernie Sanders to propose a rally during this April to recognize "Confederate Heritage Month" by denouncing all of its evil forms: slavery, the KKK, lynching, the "Jim Crow" segregation laws, the great foreclosure fraud of a few years ago (which disproportionately affected blacks), the many killings of blacks by thugs who hastily assumed they were criminals, and today's voter-suppression laws.

US citizens: ask your congresscritter to support internet radio broadcasting and stop the RIAA from killing it off.

US citizens: tell Congress to stop exposing fetal tissue researchers to threats from religious fanatics. It is doing this with a gratuitous harassment-investigation, as an extension of the gratuitous harassment-investigation of Planned Parenthood.

Fetal tissue research is vital for advancing medicine, including understanding the effects of Zika on fetuses.

Put it all together, and this harassment scheme aims at saddling as many women as possible with brain-damaged babies.

Special beacons will make it possible to track a mobile phone's location to within 10 cm, inside buildings.

More reason to refuse to carry one.

Leaked documents papers from a company that arranges offshore tax havens show that many people are hiding lots of wealth, including politicians from many countries.

One of them is the Prime Minister of Iceland, who probably will face a new election as a result. The Pirate Party has a chance to form the next government.

The documents show Putin has enriched his friends and family by 2 billion dollars by making the state give them preferences and financing. Alas for Russia, it doesn't have the option to replace Putin democratically.