US citizens: phone your senators at 202-224-3121 and call on them to vote against the record-breaking NDAA (Pentagon spending authorization bill).

Sanders and Warren will vote against it.

*Argentina's 'dirty war': France approves extradition of suspected torturer.*

The evangelical supporters of the bullshitter are crazy religious fanatics. The author's conversation with his mother illustrates that point.

In their fervency, they overlook the fact that their scriptures do not say that the hoped-for second coming will occur in the next century or even the next millenium. That is an arbitrary addition to their religion. Perhaps they would conclude that preserving everything the Earth's ecosphere is consistent with their religion if they are hammered on that one point.

An LA thug faces charges for "fondling" a corpse. Apparently he did not ask the corpse for permission. There is no word on whether the corpse's feelings were hurt.

Will it next be a crime to fondle a doll without the doll's express consent?

Governments used to borrow for infrastructure projects using public bonds. Now they set up "public-private partnerships", which means private investors profit.

This costs the taxpayers a lot more to get the same result.