The UK makes it a crime to say "move your fucking van".

I disapprove totally of what she said — she was talking to ambulance crew who had come to take a sick person to a hospital — but the state should not punish people for rude language.

The cheater openly endorsed rigging elections through gerrymandering.

The US military's list of "global threats" doesn't change much: it's always calculated to appear to justify increased spending on every part of the military.

It's not clear that the "rogue states" are more rogue than the US, or that the US can't coexist peacefully with them.

An analyzed example of how the mainstream media legitimize US war crimes: the New York Times said that the US "stumbled into torture" and that drone attacks that kill civilians merely "go wrong".

Dubya pushed hard for use of torture, including finding subordinates to create legalistic excuses for it. As for the drone attacks, the US resists acknowledging that they kill civilians.

Since the 1930s, the US has built racism into its infrastructure. Surely the bigot's infrastructure plan will do more of this.