On January 11, 2013, facing trumped up felony charges and potentially decades in prison, my beloved partner, Aaron Swartz, made the tragic choice to end his life. He was only 26. We need you to help us learn more about why this happened -- and help make sure it never happens to anybody ever again. Aaron faced 35 years behind bars for the nerdiest alleged crime in history – downloading too many academic journal articles. Aaron had authorized access to all of these articles through a nonprofit online library called JSTOR. Two years ago he was accused of downloading 4.8 million of these academic articles at once. He never distributed the articles or used them for anything, and he reached a private settlement with JSTOR (the supposed victim here) – who even publicly asked prosecutors to drop the criminal charges. But US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and prosecutor Steve Heymann decided that the best use of the US government’s resources were to throw the book at Aaron. I believe that they recklessly persecuted an innocent man because they thought it would advance their careers. I also believe that there may have been serious irregularities, possibly even violations of Aaron’s constitutional rights, in the way that they pursued the case and hounded him to his death. But I can’t prove any of that right now – and that’s where I need your help. Join me in calling on Congress to conduct a full nonpartisan investigation into the events leading up to Aaron’s death. The law treated Aaron like a dangerous criminal, but everyone else knew a different Aaron, the real Aaron; he was an innovator, entrepreneur and social justice advocate who co-authored RSS 1.0 (the web’s format for sharing and distributing content) at age 14, co-founded the social news website Reddit and led the fight to stop SOPA and PIPA -- the bills that attempted to censor the internet. He wanted to reform our criminal justice system and keep the internet free and open. The case hung over our entire relationship – we started dating just weeks before Aaron was indicted. I believe Aaron was innocent of any crime and would have been acquitted at trial, but the stress and the exhaustion and the uncertainty finally became too much for him to handle. Aaron will never have the chance to prove his case to a jury of his peers, and his family, his friends and I will never get him back. But we still have the chance to do some justice for Aaron with a full investigation. Congressmen Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings have taken the initial step of writing a letter to the Department of Justice, and have already indicated that they're considering launching an investigation, but it's not a done deal yet. Please join us in encouraging them to proceed: We hope that a nonpartisan and thorough airing of the facts can help yield the policy shifts we need to make sure that agents of the law use their power to uphold justice -- rather than engage in destructive witch hunts like the one that befell Aaron. Sign the petition to Congress: Fully investigate the prosecution and death of Aaron Swartz and make sure prosecutors can never abuse their power this way again. We can never be made whole, but we also believe that we can find some peace in an investigation. We also hope that we can prevent this kind of abuse from happening to anyone else again. We know that’s what Aaron would have wanted in the wake of his death. Thank you, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, partner of Aaron Swartz

-Re-structure Corporate; Bank; CEO contracts -eliminate 'other or extra special financial favors' -create Economically Regulatable structures for all companies both national and international -with these three entities paying their fair share of (US) taxes as well as having to reveal their contracts abroad would foster the stabilization of world finances and world wide environmental recovery

It is now time that we honor those fallen Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers who gave their lives for peace while serving as members of the U.S. lead Multi National Peace Keeping Force in Beirut, Lebanon. Sincerely, Cpl. Gregory M. Young Veteran B Co. 1/8, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit Beirut, Lebanon 1983

The Virginia model rigs the votes to favor congressional districts that unfairly gives more voice to the fewer in number of a state's population. It is not a model that Florida should follow. The candidate that receives the majority vote should receive the electoral votes of that state.

Sonos says it provides access to "all the music on earth." But Xbox music service is not supported! Please add it to your service!

The NJTRANSIT leases half it's fleet for 1 dollar per bus per year to a few private companies in the best high paying areas. This is no way to keep costs for taxpayers and riders down. If this isn't mob corruption, then what is it?

Walsh Pool is a gem of a medium sized sand bottomed pool in Fair Lawn, NJ. During the more than twenty years that I have lived here, it was always my family's pool of choice in Fair Lawn. To destroy it, no matter how great the plans, is senseless since whatever is being contemplated in its place can just as easily be built on public lands elsewhere.

We again will be having employees with out jobs..Sending our lottery out of the US.The people in Pa are tired of decisions being done by Harrisburg, considering the people who elected you..To Pass this without the peoplr knowing is wrong.To pass this in secrete is wrong.

Gerrymandered districts distort the public will by allowing political considerations to advantage one political party.

Many beloved pet dogs are being senselessly killed on public lands by legally set body grip fur harvesting traps in the state of MN. Hundreds of thousands of hunters and people recreating with dogs on our public grounds are being terrorized by a minority of trappers using body grip traps. If regulations were adjusted to require body grip traps to be set 5 ft. above ground or completely submerged in water, trappers could continue to successfully harvest furs and the vulnerability of dogs would be considerably reduced. This is being done to the benefit of dogs and trappers in neighboring states and Canadian provinces.

Prohibiting the practice of giving away live animals, fish, hermit crabs lizards etc as prizes would save many of them from cruelty. Winning a animal or fish is done on impulse and rarely do the recipients have the resources for them when they arrive home to care for them. I have seen fish in bags discarded in trash receptacles at the fair and many others die from the heat and being brought on rides. Many towns and cities in other states have banned the practice. Maryland is a progressive state and should do the same. There are better, more suitable prizes available that don't have the inherent cruelty of giving a live animal as a prize.

Conservatives are not the only ones concerned about 2nd amendment rights. Some of us do not agree with all the recent talk about gun control. More gun laws will not solve the problem of violence in our society. Keep the progressives right to own the most popular semi-automatic sporting arms and high capacity magazines available.