There are probably three things necessary if the United States government is to better provide for the American people: First, expose as baseless and harmful the pseudoscientific theories that claim to show that helping people actually hurts them, that charity is cruelty, that a higher minimum wage hurts workers, that health coverage leads to poor habits and health, that altruism doesn't "really" exist and therefore should not be engaged in, etc.

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A recent experience in kangaroo court at Guantanamo Bay provides an excellent example of how things operate in that surreal, unjust world of military tyranny and oppression.

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There's been a lot of public discussion of late of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's changes in style rules. Out with "just the facts," in with opinion and perspective. Or so the story goes. The changes that are afoot at the AP appear to be part of a broader trend, influenced - in part - by the internet, the medium itself and the competition from bloggers.

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One of the hallmarks of the Cold War was that whenever the USSR invaded another country, they claimed that they were "invited" by that country's government to enter and keep the peace. When the Warsaw pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, the USSR declared that the 500,000 troops were invited into the country in order to "preserve socialism." On December 24, 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, again claiming that the Prime Minister Amin had invited them in to preserve his legitimate government. On December 27, Amin was shot by Soviet forces.

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