The US should revive the Office of Technology Assessment.

It was abolished in 1995 by Republicans under Gingrich, because they didn't want serious investigation of technology issues.

US citizens: oppose oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Everyone: call on Gannett newspapers not to sell to Digital First Media.

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The NIH has banned research using fetal tissue using its funds. This decision, incoherent even in its own terms, will hamper research into numerous maladies, including Alzheimer's disease and Zika.

The ban is incoherent because it fails to achieve the goal, preventing or discouraging abortions, that is supposedly the motive for it.

Paradoxically, impeding research on Zika will enable the disease to continue making it necessary for women to have abortions so as to avoid giving birth to babies with microcephaly. That research has a chance of someday preventing Zika from having those effects on fetuses, so that they could be born healthy.

Ironically, the same anti-abortion campaign has another tactic: making it a crime to endanger a fetus. But they only intend to apply this to endangering one fetus at a time. Endangering millions of fetuses, by keeping them in harm's way, seems to be ok in their opinion.

In Canada, the election issue about climate defense is whether to do far too little or far far too little. If closing coal-burning power plants is most of the emissions reduction that Canada makes in 10 years, that means they will stop with the easy stuff.

If Canada doesn't want to receive 20, 30, 50 million climate refugees a few decades from now from the collapse of agriculture in the US, it had better push for global climate defense action now.