The US says the details of Ammar al-Baluchi's torture are too secret to give to his defense lawyers, but did provide them for the film Zero Dark Thirty.

The US owes an apology and compensation to everyone that was tortured. It is required for our national honor.

Feinstein, a plutocratist Democrat from California, told teenage climate protesters, "You didn't vote for me (because you're under voting age)."

If this were fencing, Feinstein would have scored a point. A point of no real importance compared to the vital issue at stake.

Unfortunately, it is not fencing. It is campaigning for the survival of civilization.

Some Swedish feminists want to ban sex robots lest they influence men to want subservient females. That would be a tyrannical thought-control regime.

I don't have a high opinion of hypothetical sex robots designed for subservience. I do not want my lovers/sweethearts to be subservient; if a robot is less than a person, it would hardly be a substitute for a lover that is a person.

However, I can see one good use for a sex robot: to teach men how to be good lovers and companions. This would mean programming the robot for teaching, rather than for subservience. It could help inexperienced men overcome their fear of making a horrible mistake and being rejected for it, and learn to be considerate and pleasing to a lover; also learn how to pick up on what a lover does or doesn't feel and want.

After this education, they could have good relationships with human women.

US citizens: call on Congress to end the harassment and surveillance of journalists at the US southern border.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Moroccan women working picking strawberries in Spain are forced to live in unsafe conditions, and suffer rape as well.

When they complain to the thugs, the thugs ignore them, and their employer/abusers kick them out, leaving them destitute. But the worst thing is the cruelty of their parents and husbands.

With all the money that the strawberries bring in, Spain can afford to deploy inspectors to make sure these workers have safe working conditions.