DeVos wants to make civil rights protections for students inoperative by cutting the funds for enforcing them.

One part of this change, that concerning "sexual assault" accusations, might be an advance — it seems that school procedures deny the accused the legal rights that anyone accused of a crime is entitled to.

The rest is entirely bad.

Sheriff Clarke has decided not to accept a post in the Department of Homeland Suppression.

Here's why he aroused so much opposition.

I speculate that public pressure and investigation had something to do with his decision.

Resistance against the troll is mounting and has thwarted most of what he wants do. This is not complete success, however. Resistance has not thwarted putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, nor the deregulatory sabotage of many agencies.

Pulling out from the Paris climate agreement is purely symbolic, but the troll has already canceled the measures that the US was using to carry out its inadequate pledges.

I am not confident we can stop the Republican election-rigging that enabled the troll to "win" the election.

Greece blocked the EU from condemning China's human rights violations.

I agree this is a dishonorable vote, but Greece had to bow to China because of the EU terrible wrong the EU did to Greece.

The Kensington and Chelsea council squashed its poor residents so hard last year that it had a surplus — which it divided among the wealthy residents. This is not unrelated to the fatal fire.

The author of the article donated per rebate to charity, feeling it was blood money.