ACLU sues to allow people to post photos of their ballots when voting.

I disagree with the ACLU on this issue. The purpose of the law is to protect you from pressure to sell your vote. The US has no shortage of people with power who would try to force you to vote their way.

Fanatical Muslims in Pakistan lynched a Christian couple, accusing them of "desecrating" a copy of the Qur'an.

To oppose their vicious ideas, we must stand firmly behind the principle that freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult anyone or anything. All laws punishing an insult are an injustice.

Furthermore, I think that all visitors to the US should be required to make a video recording, for publication, stating that they endorse this principle as a matter of human rights. If they will not endorse this, they can stay away.

Inaccurate information about you in data brokers' hands can get you shot to death, but data brokers refuse to correct errors.

I wonder how they find out about people's addresses. Does the Post Office tell them? The IRS? Utility companies? Stores?

Training soldiers from the Libyan army turns out to be ineffective because they belong to factions that hate each other. They fight each other even during training, and when they return to Libya, they join militias that fight each other.

Things Are Going From Bad to Worse in Syria—And Iraq.

The worst thing that happened is that PISSI (the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq) conquered and massacred a Sunni tribe in Iraq that did not yield to PISSI.

The US and the Iraqi government and militias did not do what was necessary to defend that tribe. This has big consequences: other Iraqi Sunnis who resent PISSI will feel they have no choice but to support it.