GMcGath @gmcgath@liberdon.com

The TSA never spied on travelers who weren't doing anything wrong, and now it's stopped spying on them. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/12/15/curtails-quiet-skies-passenger-surveillance/2lRAv2AwjGpUcgq08mHaPM/story.html

Someone pinch me and wake me up. Obamacare has been declared unconstitutional!!?
Unfortunately, there's no hope that the Supreme Court will let that stand.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-court/federal-judge-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional-idUSKBN1OE01Y

Is the word "neoliberal" worth claiming by free-market advocates to distinguish us from the anti-freedom "liberals" of the left? Going by this article, probably not. https://www.aier.org/article/pejorative-origins-term-%E2%80%9Cneoliberalism%E2%80%9D

This piece shows how little some journalists understand economics. The authors' idea of investment strategy seems to be "buy high and sell low." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bomb-threats-bitcoin/bitcoin-ransoms-just-are-not-what-they-used-to-be-idUSKBN1OC35C?il=0

Well, this is something. The Senate has voted to stop funding the Saudi atrocities in Yemen. Whether it will get any further is another question. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/13/donald-trump-senate-votes-end-u-s-support-yemen-war-jamal-khashoggi/2296155002/

Well, this is different. The National Enquirer is in the news for _not_ running a lurid story. https://www.eagletribune.com/cnhi_network/national-enquirer-publisher-strikes-deal-with-feds/article_ced8060b-249d-53df-bf2f-47040bea501f.html

Progressive parents are teaching their children well. A boy gets bullied for having Trump as a last name. https://www.eagletribune.com/cnhi_network/boy-changes-last-name-from-trump-due-to-bullying/article_4a630c4e-8fc4-53de-b4d7-1ee6fa85d19e.html

Durham, #NewHampshire submits to the vandal's veto, bans menorah display. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Durham-New-Hampshire-Denies-Jewish-Groups-Request-to-Display-Menorah-501963772.html

On #HumanRIghtsDay, it's worth looking at the many contradictions in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

It says people have the right to their property, but then says they have the right to "food, clothing, housing, ..." to a "free" education,etc." In other words, to the property of others.

Article 29 says that no one has a right to oppose the UN.

This badly conceived, self-serving document doesn't deserve the admiration it gets.

It's claimed that in Texas, you can legally shoot a trespasser to kill even if you aren't in danger, and that just thinking that a person is a trespasser is enough to get you off. This may be Amber Guyger's defense. I wonder how many other people get shot dead in Texas with no consequences to the killer because of that. https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/guyger-jean-case-is-going-to-wring-dallas-out-11401459

Javert is back. Police in Paris have arrested nearly 1,000 tax protesters, deployed armored vehicles, and surrounded protesters with dogs. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-protests-today-police-fire-tear-gas-authorities-seek-to-keep-lid-on-unrest-2018-12-08/

People are starving and homeless in Yemen, but the prime minister's top priority is to get money to government employees. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdulmalik-maeen-saeed-yemen-prime-minister-interview/

In New Hampshire, a teacher allegedly threatened a school shooting. https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/londonderry-teacher-charged-with-threatening-student/article_071c8f89-771a-5cfc-a787-03c70e73ce75.html?block_id=664693

On further thought, this person might have been trying to create the illusion of a Nazi threat where there wasn't any by drawing swastikas.