Why should gun owners not be required to have liability insurance for their weapons like car owners are for their cars? Save taxpayer dollars and let insurance companies pay for the background checks and keep track of their customers guns and charge for it in the premiums. The insurance should pay for damage regardless of who fires the gun, just like with cars. It would be a start and the premiums on assault rifles and big ammo clips could make them prohibitive to own. Lax gun laws are just more corporate welfare. Use an insurance mandate for gun owners as a way to fight corporate welfare with corporate welfare. For a whole new bunch of new customers, the insurance lobby would probably be willing to contribute to enough congressmen to get it passed as they did with the ACA. Since criminals are less likely to buy the insurance we could probably seize (for lack of proof-of-insurance) a lot of gangsters' guns. Since guns can last hundreds of years, there is no force removing them from circulation which results in their accumulation. This could be a force to decrease the number of weapons on the street. Seized, unclaimed weapons should be melted down.

It's time to stop corporations from buying US elections. We need to put power back into the Federal Election commission.

Bank of America has far more foreclosures pending against Hartford homeowners than any other bank because of their own bad business practices, and because other companies hire them to evict hard working families. They also makes a practice of foreclosing on homes in inner cities while preserving suburban homes. It is not right to let a company that is so aggressive and hostile to the people of Hartford continue to provide services. Hartford City Council will vote on Wednesday, February 13th to decide whether or not to renew the contract with Bank of America to provide the city's primary banking services.

Yes, several times. I put in money to my savings account to cover an automatic withdrawal. The bank processed the withdrawal before the deposit even though the deposit was there before the withdrawal. I tried to rectify this problem with them. to no avail. There ws more than enough money in the account to cover the transaction but the bank ate up the deposit with over $100 in fees.

No entities should be allowed anonymity when advertising over the public airwaves, or any public medium. Without identification of the the speaker, there can be no speech. (WHO is that yelling fire in the crowded theater?)

I am a resident of Lee County, North Carolina. My county is in a conflict. The conflict is with potential appointments to the 15-member North Carolina Energy and Mining Commission board. The potential appointees are former energy and mining company executives

Thomas Jefferson has stated, "Give the people the light and they will find their way". The American people have been lied to about the weapons of mass destruction that got us into the Irak war. ALEC has been operating secretly for decades without the people knowing. Media doesn't print what might hurt its bottom line.etc.

For the past few years, Rep. Darryl Issa has waged a campaign against the US Postal Service, in order to destroy it in favor of mail delivery by the much less efficient (and far more expensive) FedEx. This isn't about "email is the Next Big Thing so we don't need the Post Office". (Email can't send packages, for one thing). Behind the scenes, Rep. Issa has been forcing the USPS to pre-fund its members' retirements AND sick pay, up to 15 years into the future! No other company or corporation is forced to operate under these circumstances, and the American People want its Postal Service with its nationwide network of facilities to continue, and DO NOT WANT the far more expensive AND inefficient FedEx (or any other private postal service) to replace it!

The use of drones to assassinate individuals deemed undesirable by the Executive Branch is wasteful of civilian life, constitutionally questionable (to say the least), and a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals. It should end immediately.

The 2009-2011 iMacs should be recalled immediately. Originally, several major tech blogs and main stream media outlets were covering a yellow screen issue from late 2009 to the first half of 2010 that took Apple several months to admit was happening. Then hard drives started failing and people were receiving iMacs with cracked screens. It was a mess, and Apple finally caved to pressure and admitted there was an issue with the yellowing iMac screen. People were advised to contact Apple if their screen had a yellow tinge or if there were any other issues with it. After that, every news outlet promised to drop the story since Apple finally addressed it. And Apple offered replacement screens for current iMac owners. You'd think everything would be solved then, but several users started reporting that they had gone through 3-5 screen replacements with the same or worse screen issues. I tried contacting tech news blogs to see if they'd start covering the issue of these iMacs again, but they told me to just contact Apple and get them to replace my screen. Obviously, that doesn't work. I'm a owner of the original late 2009 27" iMac, and I've been able to live with the yellow screen tinge in hopes that Apple will finally admit that this is not just a display issue but a flaw in the hardware design of the iMac. Recently, I also started noticing a stain-like appearance on the right edge of the screen and started googling the issue. Apparently, others had been seeing stains, condensation and strange grey smudges all over their screens. It has started becoming about as big an issue as the yellow tinge problem. Replacing the screen does not solve any of these problems, and I don't think it ever will. All these problems are a result of flaws in the hardware design of these iMacs. There is a newly designed iMac that just came out this year, so I don't want all of these iMac owners, including me, to be stuck with a defective machine. The screen is now shielded from the hot-running hardware, so I think the LCD screen will finally be protected. If this hardware re-design does solve the issue, I think we all deserve a free trade-in for the new iMac or a full refund of our current machines. A fellow iMac owner has already created a petition on here that asks Apple for a proper screen replacement. And while I support that petition as well, we really need to take this a step further. There needs to be a recall, so I beseech all of you—iMac owners or general mac users—to please support this cause. Even if you have an iMac that has none of these issues, they can develop over time, and by then, you're warranty or Applecare might be expired. So, please sign and force Apple to address this issue. I'm hoping with enough signatures, we can get the attention of major tech blogs and main stream media outlets once again and pressure Apple to recall these machines. Here's a few forums where these issues have been discussed for years now: 27", 21.5" iMac Owners, test your screen for yellow tint issue here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=824940&page=140 Yellow tinge from bottom to top of the screen, 27" iMac https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2218213?start=0&tstart=0 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2381983?threadID=2381983%255D Greyish Smudge marks behind the glass screen: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2300580?tstart=0 And here is a link to the other petition as well: http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-inc-customer-support-provide-replacement-for-faulty-screens-in-imacs-from-2009-to-2011?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

Why must people get kicked out of their homes, only to let someone else in who pays a lower mortgage payment. Why can't this government work things out with the original homeowner and let him pay the lower payment and stay in his home? This kicking people out of their homes is immoral and is devastating to the homeowner. This would omit the problem of blight in certain neighborhoods.

I believe fox news is brain washing my mother with hate filled non full truths. I have compared other news stations and fox is always so negative and not giving the full information.