Pakistan is advancing against polio as its troops advance against the Taliban.

"No mother should have to fear that the police will harm her mentally ill child."

Most thugs, on encountering someone with a mental illness, adopt course of action that predictably advances to violence against that person. The sick person often ends up beaten, imprisoned, or dead.

Similar results occur when the object of thugs' attentions is sane but doesn't understand the local language, or is listening to music through headphones.

On seeing a man who apparently had a rifle, but not in position to fire it, why did the thugs shoot him?

A London resident has been convicted of "terrorism" for making (while in Syria) antivehicle mines that were used by the Iraqi resistance against US vehicles.

That was not terrorism, that was war. It is ridiculous to lay charges of terrorism for making munitions for use for fighting soldiers.

If he is a UK citizen, perhaps it would be valid to accuse him of treason or aiding the enemy.

In Colorado, a school lunch manager has been fired. She gave adequate lunches to children with no money.

Denying children proper nutrition can stunt them for life. Republican legislators are responsible for this: stunting poor children for life is what their philosophy is about.

"Why ban laughing gas? All the best things in life are psychoactive."