Two Accused of Kidnapping a Chinese Student and Trying to Deport Him
"California police say they have arrested two people for abducting and attempting to deport a 21-year-old foreign flight school student."
Jacob Hornberger: The Banality of Evil in the War on Drugs
"It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs."
Why parents are more paranoid than ever
"We have not criminalized parents who choose to raise their kids in homes with stairs. But increasingly we have criminalized parents who choose to let their kids out of their sight."
Trump Is Not the First U.S. Politician to Use Humvees and F-16s as Props
"Trump is not the originator of this madness. We have spent decades preparing the slippery slope he is gleefully pushing us down."
What Everyone Is Missing About Trump’s Military Parade
"Though lawmakers and concerned citizens alike can justifiably balk at the prospect of Trump becoming ‘Napoleonic‘ or wasting money on the pomp and circumstance of military worship, the far more damning truth is that this is only a natural progression of a decades-long fetish for American militarism, which, from the looks of the current climate in the United States, does not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon."
The FISA Reauthorization Only Boosts Big Brother
"Polls show that public opinion on NSA spying shifts back and forth depending upon who is in the White House. In other words, liberal or conservative voters generally aren’t opposed to mass surveillance as long as their party is in power."
Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago
"Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was much more than just horribly mistaken: He fabricated 'evidence' and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false. Unfortunately, Congress never investigated Powell’s use of the intelligence he was given, so we don’t know many of the specifics."
California Democrats’ blueprint for the election: ‘Go left’
"The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation of Democrats that is more liberal and personally invested in standing up to President Donald Trump's Washington than those leaving office. That means staking out the most liberal stance on issues such as single-payer health care in California, a highly expensive initiative that failed in the legislature last year. The push is in response to the uncertainty surrounding health-care revisions in Washington, but it is estimated to cost twice the state's annual budget."
House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards
"The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes, rejecting a push by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant privacy limits when it sweeps up Americans’ emails and other personal communications. Effectively, the vote was almost certainly the end of a debate over 21st-century surveillance and privacy rights that broke out in 2013 after the leaks by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden."
A ‘White Racism’ class just started at a Florida university
"Assistant Professor Thornhill said that he had expected some grumblings but hadn’t foreseen such an uproar from many who saw the class as an affront to an entire race — and some who viewed it as a personal attack on them for being white."