The EPA's proposed rules for handling coal ash are too weak to do the job.

A case in point.

Christian fanatics falsely claim that some birth control methods are abortion, so they can stretch their restrictions on abortion rights to restrict birth control too.

From my point of view, the difference between contraception and abortion, while real, has no moral significance: they should both be legal and the state should provide them both gratis.

The Tor project reports that some government (the US, it appears) may try to disable its directory authority servers and shut the Tor network down.

The Taliban are winning their war against Pakistani children's future.

Thugs are not always the killers — occasionally they are killed. Someone shot two NYC thugs, just before killing himself, and after killing someone else.

Other thugs have seized on this as an opportunity to campaign for their own impunity, and to attack the public for the anger that has been provoked by the actions of many thugs over a long time.

In effect, the thugs claim that their lives matter astronomically more than yours or mine, and that protesting when they kill mere citizens is equivalent to shooting them.

I don't think those two thugs deserved to die. But I feel less concern about each of them than about each of the many innocent people that thugs have killed — because the thugs are part of a group that has power and uses it arrogantly to oppress.

The reason I call them "thugs" is not primarily because of the killings they do, many of which are due to haste and unconscious racism rather than malice. Rather, it is primarily because of the numerous protesters and other innocent victims that they grab, punch, kick, pepper spray, or beat with sticks, and then frame for various bogus charges. That, they do from arrogance.

Only a fraction of thugs would do those things, but when they lie about it, all their buddies support their perjury. That's why they all deserve the name of "thugs".

Once in a while someone in a thug department stands for justice and rejects the arrogance and impunity of the other thugs. Those people deserve the name of "police officer'.