Since WW2 , the USA has engaged in numerous foreign conflicts,usually without the explicit approval of Congress. I ask that Congress live up to its duties and responsibilities as written in the Constitution.

Taiwanese-Americans are asking ALL Americans to help us in a situation where the US has a lot of influence: Taiwan's current President Ma Ing-jeou and his ruling Kuomintang Party ("KMT") have thrown the last democratically elected President Chen Shui-bian in prison on trumped up charges of corruption, which he is not able to adequately defend since his imprisonment. President Chen's health is rapidly deteriorating, as evidenced by the expert opinions of local and international medical teams who have seen him recently in his tiny jail cell, where he is NOT able to even sit in a chair, or have a bed, nor move about to exercise. This sets a dangerous precedent for future elections of presidents, in a fragile new democracy such as Taiwan, where direct Presidential elections were held only since 2000, when President Chen was elected. Under Human Rights laws, President Chen should be released immediately on medical grounds, and to prepare an adequate defense to the KMT accusations of corruption. The KMT has a long history of "white terror" and corruption on the island of Taiwan, since their military dictatorship of almost 40 years. Their current ill treatment of ex-President Chen (democratically elected in 2000, and re-elected in 2004) is in keeping with the KMT's long tradition of un-democratic behavior.

The current long term commitment to send billions to Israel takes us further away from any semblance of playing an honest broker, and it rewards an intransigent Israeli regime that has devoted itself to settlement expansion and essentially has been a non-partner in peace-seeking. More, Israel habitually thumbs its nose at us and takes us for fools...boasting that we will ultimately agree or acquiesce to anything they do.

Congress refuses to defund this school in spite of its Latin American terrorists who teach there. President Obama has signed a bill to defund, but our Congress refuses to go along.

The United Nations won't allow any country to legalize marijuana like wine while it's a signatory of the Single Convention. As the federal marijuana prohibition causes FAR more harm than good and reduces the safety of our children, we need to END it. The only way to legalize adult marijuana sales is to either get marijuana removed from the Single Convention or for the U.S. to withdraw itself from the treaty.

I have not personally affected but I've become more and more concerned about the use of Drones by the military to target and kill innocent women and children along with any "likely" terrorists who might be hanging around. The price is too high. It's a weapon, much like the atom bomb, we use it at our peril. How many people do we have to kill so that we can be "safe"?

time to raise the iron curtain on cuba.

Pastor Behnam Irani is serving a six year sentence for crimes against Iran's national security. In his verdict it mentions that he is an apostate from Islam. He has been in ill health and has been denied even a visit to a doctor. Please speak out on this unjustly imprisoned pastors behalf.

Let's noodge India, with trade and immigration benefits, to gift the (mostly Muslim) Kashmir Valley (and mostly Hindu Jammu and mostly Buddhist Ladakh) with the U.N.-mandated self-determination votes that India agreed to in 1948, thus making America the forever friend of every living Muslim of Indian subcontinental heritage-- fully two thirds of all Muslims, Taliban and al Qaeda included-- on planet Earth.

The US military has occupied Afghanistan for over 10 years. Tens of thousands of American lives have been lost. Not to mention Billions of our taxpayer dollars. It is obvious that no further gains can be made at this point. It is time to withdrawl all troops from foreign countries, and keep our money and our serviceman here in the US, where they can do the most good. They can only keep us safe if they are alive and here in the US!

AIPAC influences foreign policy based on religion and a state that practices apartheid and is a nuclear rogue state. Most all lawmakers take trips to Israel to gardener votes in the USA. Never in the history of the USA has a candidate going to another nation to get votes in the USA.. It is called treason when a religious state panders votes for politicians. It is also agreed that our nations has a separation of state and religion.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement currently in negotiation with 11 countries including the United States. The TPP is cloaked in secrecy with a timetable targeting the end of this year. Based on what is known, however, it appears that the agreement essentially elevates large multinational corporations to the same level as a sovereign state and limits national and private citizen rights in favor of corporate rights.