Proposing state laws to turn off cooperation with NSA massive surveillance.

If this effort is serious, it should start by deactivating the "fusion centers" by which state and local thug departments share information with the FBI about "terrorist suspects" such as Occupy protests.

Waleed Al-Shehhi was sentenced to prison in the UAE for tweeting about the trial of Islamist dissidents.

The Gates Foundation talks about giving everyone in the world a toilet to use, but its solutions are ridiculously expensive.

The EPA is reducing the amount of corn-based ethanol to use in US cars, but it should reduce this to zero.

Thousands of Haitians protested demanding the resignation of the president, who was more or less imposed by the US.