The TSA (Theater of Security Agency) fined John Brennan for taking off his clothes to show he had no bomb, after a non-trial which is not allowed to consider whether the regulations in use are unconstitutional.

Brennan will be able to appeal the decision, but at no point will he be entitled to a proper trial.

Elizabeth Warren attacked Paul Ryan's cruel lies head on, teaching what it means to be a Democrat instead of a Republican in Democrat's clothing. If she runs for president, I will support her.

I will not support Ms Clinton, who is a phony Democrat like her husband (and Obama). I voted Green in the last two presidential elections, and when people warned me that this might lead to a Republican victory, I told them Obama was not that different, overall, from a Republican. There are some exceptions, to be sure; mainly his medical care law, which is a big step forward even after the medical insurance companies half-ruined it. Nonetheless, he's more right-wing than Nixon in terms of human rights, war, and the economy.

The US ought to welcome Palestine's application to join UN treaties concerned with human rights.

Looking at all the studies, there is no evidence that butter is less healthful than margarine. But it is also not clear that butter isn't worse.

How the World Bank's idea of "development" systematically promotes inequality and poverty.