The UK government is classifying thousands of people with incurable degenerative diseases as "likely to be able to work again soon".

Even if some Britons only pretend to be disabled, why bother to "catch" them? There aren't enough jobs in the UK for all the people who are looking for work. There aren't enough jobs in the UK to start pushing wages up.

Muslim fanatics in Afghanistan demand the punishment of journalists who wrote an article that they believe criticizes their religion.

Shame on anyone whose religion includes believing people are not allowed to insult it.

There are accusations that PISSI has used chemical weapons on a few occasions on a small scale.

I have to wonder: since Saddam Hussein destroyed his chemical weapons, how did any survive.

People in Liberia are clinging to traditional burial rituals to the point of killing their relatives and killing themselves.

They kill their relatives by denying them treatment for whatever disease they have. They kill themselves by washing and handling the bodies of the dead, some of whom died of Ebola.

They are acting like idiots, but they don't deserve the consequence that they are bringing on themselves.

Frustrated CIA Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be Intelligible.

The right thing for the senators to do is to publish what they see fit and tell the CIA to jump in the lake. And then start a new Church Committee investigation that will tear the CIA open from top to bottom. You can't stop its abuses while handling it with kid gloves.