McCain on Torture

https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/27/what-john-mccain-taught-us-about-torture

Churchill on eating well...

If patents only last 17 years, why should copyrights be extended to 144?

Federal funding for mass transit - because relatively wealthy people need subsidies too!

according to the New York Times : "Subway workers, including managers and administrative personnel, now make an average of about $155,000 annually in salary, overtime and benefits, according to a Times analysis of data compiled by the federal Department of Transportation. That is far more than in any other American transit system; the average in cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington is less than $100,000 in total compensation annually.

The pay for managers alone is even more extraordinary. The nearly 2,500 people who work in New York subway administration make, on average, $240,000 in salary, overtime and benefits. The average elsewhere is less than $115,000."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html

In the 17 years since the TSA began groping passengers...

Euphemisms abound..

Crickets on FISA 702