Tobin Smith, formerly on the O'Reilly program on Faux News, says that the "debates" were always rigged, and that the shows were calculated for emotional manipulation of the audience.

Colorado is doing lots of good with the 100 million dollars of tax revenue from marijuana.

The US arms industry effectively buys the votes of senators deciding whether to approve an arms sale to a repressive theocratic regime such as Salafi Arabia.

Should we condemn individual senators for selling their votes, or the system that pressures them to do this?

Both! Of course, both!

We can forgive people who are in positions of weakness for yielding to the pressures of the system, except when they do something egregious. However, someone as powerful as a senator can never plead, "the system made me do it."

I am looking for people to help webmasters of various sites (not related to me or GNU) make simple but substantial changes in their web sites — for instance, to use the GNU Project's recommended terminology.

US citizens: call on Congress to keep funding campaigns against bigotry.