Naomi Klein: we must take advantage of the low oil price to cancel fossil fuel drilling projects.

I think we should put heavy taxes on fossil fuels, so that the price for use will be high enough to encourage conservation, while the price paid to extractors will be low enough to discourage drilling.

John Menard gave Scott Walker 1.5 million in campaign funds, and received almost 2 million in Wisconsin tax credits for it.

A Republican bill would require US Air Force cadets to swear a religious oath.

These harassment policies can be quite effective in excluding people who are not religious fanatics. An Atheist in the Air Force Academy has sued against religious coercion there.

It appears that US thug departments have systematically ignored many accusations of rape, often being cruel to the victims in the process. The estimate is that roughly a million rapes were omitted from statistics between 1995 and 2012.

Why We Execute People Is the Big Question, Not How.