Nintendo Seizes "Pirated" Cookies to Protect Fans.

Supposedly these cookies are dangerous to people's health because they infringe copyright.

The US FDA is proceeding with a plan to mostly eliminate trans fats from foods in the US.

It would be an injustice to try to ban eating or cooking with trans fats (or with sugar); however, regulating their use in processed food products, or in restaurants dishes where currently you would not easily find out they are used, is legitimate.

I wonder whether french fries can be made without trans fats, and whether they would be equally unpalatable.

The Dominican Republic plans to deport everyone of Haitian origin, since they can't prove they were born in the D.R.

Since these people are not Haitian citizens, I wonder why Haiti will let them in.

The motive for this mass expulsion is racism , which extends to the point where the government condones lynching.

US Border Patrol thugs kill both foreigners and US citizens , and don't get punished even for the grossest wrongs.

Stiglitz: the world needs a bankruptcy law for countries.

This is not only so that countries can get out of unpayable debts, but to discourage predatory lending that encourages corrupt dictators to borrow.