I married my husband July 24th 2013 in NY, on the two year aniversery of marriage licenses being isseued to same-sex couples in that state. My marriage to my husband is not recognized by the state of Texas. This denies us many rights. For example, to insure myself it costs $22/mo. To insure both of us, it costs well over $400/mo! By comparison, straight couples can insure their significant other for $60/mo. This blatant segregation must stop.

"Citizen Koch" was pulled from a national public television broadcast because of fear of upsetting David Koch, who has been a major donor to public television. But public television stations should answer to viewers like me, not to billionaires like the Koch brothers -- and I want to see this important documentary. Will you join the call for a national broadcast of "Citizen Koch" on Independent Lens?

Since when has WUCF public television become WUCF Koch Television censoring broadcast because of David Koch's money and position on the board of PBS...??

I am outraged by the Yahoo! decision to turn off Martin Manley's website. Partly because of his site's potential value to those wishing to better understand and prevent suicide. And partly because, as a fellow author, I have a particular appreciation of what a labor of love it was for Martin to create what he created, hoping that it would be read by a wide audience and ultimately augment the sum total of human happiness. Why is it, I wonder, that Yahoo! saw fit to pay $990 million to buy Tumblr and continue to make its porn available in a manner that enables the circumvention of parental controls (see link) - while censoring Manley? http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/26/tumblr-porn-is-a-bigger-problem-than-yahoo-realizes/

Bay Area New Democrats, a club in the Galveston Bay Area of Houston, supports the candidacy of State Senator Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas.

If a candidate wants us to vote for them, then tell us why by taking the high-road and not sinking so deep in the muck they have to resort to slamming their opponent.

Senior journalist Mike Grunwald tweeted "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Jullian Assange"

Freedom of speech.

Public TV must remain public.

Documentaries concerning the huge amounts of money spent by political factions in order to influence voters or make it difficult for people to vote must be available to the public. Fear of upsetting David Koch and other billionaires should not be allowed to influence PUBLIC television.

let american citizens see what the koch brothers are really about.

I consider the Koch Brothers subversive and anti-democratic. Their wealth is used to control and manipulate the public to believe that government is the enemy. Theirs is a message to attempt to instill fear and divide the U.S. public on policies that benefit the all.