Chinese refugee Wang Yam was convicted of murdering Allan Chappelow based on no pertinent evidence, in a trial that was unfair because his defense was kept secret by the court.

When more evidence came up to exculpate Wang, the appeals court charged with reconsidering the verdict didn't even ask one witness to say what he had seen.

Senator Doug Jones shockingly voted to confirm Alex Azar as saboteur of Health and Human Services. Apparently he is a right-wing Democrat.

What I saw from his web site made him look progressive to me. I now wonder how I can tell which candidates are really progressive.

I also wonder when will he face reelection? That will be time to fight him in the primary.

Meanwhile, Alabama's Republicans have voted to stop holding special elections to replace senators that die or step down.

Their aim is to seize and hold power by doing whatever it takes.

Eight members of No More Deaths were charged with the crime of "abandoning property" — that is, leaving water bottles near the Mexican border so that border-crossers would not die of thirst.

With this action, the US government declares its direct intention to criminalize leaving water for them, as well as ancillary actions required in order to do so.

The collapse of a giant conglomerate for privatized government services sheds light on the many other cases where outsourcing services has been a disaster.

If companies think they can hold agencies hostage by signing long-term contracts, they will look for every opportunity to corrupt politicians into signing them. This crime against the nation must not pay!

States can eliminate the threat, and make the crime not pay, by changing their constitutions to declare long-duration privatization contracts invalid.

The bully has made US bombardment campaigns more secretive, as well as more deadly. Apparently he thinks the US will escape blame if the public can't tell what is going on.

Raqqa and Mosul really were war zones, and many soldiers might have been killed in battle if the US had not given them close air support. It was impossible to do this without killing civilians sometimes. However, was it possible to do this while killing fewer civilians? Denied information, we have no way of knowing. We know only that we can't rely on the bully to lead the US military to care.

Under Dubya and Obama, the US generally denied causing civilian casualties, sometimes persisting in the denial despite incontestable proof. You could even say that they blazed the trail for the bully's persistent lies.