We the people should have the right to hold law enforcement officials accountable or commendable while they're performing their duties on our behalf. Audio and video recording them performing their duties at a safe distance should not be a crime.

For years, African-Americans, as well as Hispanic and Asian Americans, have paid significantly higher interest rates on car loans than have other buyers of equal credit-worthiness. Now, in a fresh outrage, more than 170 members of Congress are trying to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability to combat discrimination in the auto lending market.

Justice! For Matt Ainsworth Murdered @Villanova Matt A. A Former Engineer Student Pray 4 Justice! http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20110329/update-villanova-probes-death-of-student-21#.T-RuO4D

To save the whales, who are very susceptible to loud noise in the ocean!

Reasons why you should care about GRU’s name change: 1) Students, the ones funding and getting a degree from the institution, had no say in the matter 2) The purpose behind GRU’s name was to signify the state’s only public professional health schools, and their mission is to serve the state as a whole, hence the multiple rural campuses. Neither this mission nor the composition of students in its programs are primarily tied to Augusta, including GRHealth clinics that reside outside of the city. 3) Dr. Azziz MD, the president who changed the name to GRU, was replaced by Dr. Keel PhD this July, who intended to change the name back to his alma mater Augusta College, an obvious conflict of interest regardless of publicized intentions. 4) The governor won’t comment on the decision, saying it was made by the board of regents 5) Removing the state’s name further removes national recognition, starts rapport over, and shows our institution lacks any firm foundation. 6) Recommending professors will now be Augusta University faculty which again holds no current respect. 7) Changing the signs alone previously cost $3.8m. Further spending for name changes reflects how incapable the institution is at budgeting its allocated funds. Will donors continue to donate when they see that their money keeps going towards changing their alma mater? Think about the cost to change signs, uniforms/scrubs, GRU hospital name changing and anything in them labeled GRU, school merchandise, and cyberspace including emails and lecture videos 8) There’s already movement among the Augusta community to change the name again in the future, to revert it to the original Augusta State University. 9) Apathetic MCG students should note that colleges are supposed to revel in their University, not turn the other cheek. Think about how our GRU nursing, dental, and PhD colleagues are affected. 10) We currently park behind a gas station.

The people of Los Angeles need a high quality paper of record.

Kline needs to be removed. THEY ARE A PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN!

Every time you connect to the internet, your communications, your information, and your way of life are being monitored and scrutinized by the government. XKEYSCORE allows the NSA to accomplish this as the program sweeps up internet traffic from areas of communication such as email, pictures, documents, social media, webcam photos, chats, skype sessions, and even logged keystrokes.(1) The program resembles Google as it categorizes and tags the collected and stored information and makes the information searchable for NSA analysts.(2) For example, an analyst can type your username from Facebook into XKEYSCORE and they would be delivered all of your information, including your private messages, posts, and chats over a specified time period.(3) The program has been used to spy on leaders such as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, a clear non-threat to the United States.(4) XKEYSCORE destroys the fundamental principles of civil liberties that we are undeniably born with, works toward a system of governance where stifling dissent is the norm, and it only ramps up the American surveillance state, further turning it into a grotesque monster built on intimidation and fear. It is our duty as citizens of the United States to express our inherent rights and call for the end of this tyrannical program. Thank you for making your voice heard on this issue. -David Chapman Sources: 1. Marquis-Boire, Morgan, Glenn Greenwald, and Micah Lee. “XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications.” The Intercept. First Look Media. Web. 1 July 2015. https://theintercept.com/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/ 2. Lee, Micah, Glenn Greenwald, and Morgan Marquis-Boire. “Behind the Curtain: A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA’s XKEYSCORE.” The Intercept. First Look Media. Web. 2 July 2015. https://theintercept.com/2015/07/02/look-under-hood-xkeyscore/ 3. Greenwald, Glenn. "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State." New York: Picador, 2014. Print. 158. 4. Marquis-Boire, Morgan, Glenn Greenwald, and Micah Lee. “XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications.” The Intercept. First Look Media. Web. 1 July 2015. https://theintercept.com/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/

If our children are going to achieve their dreams, they need great teachers. Unfortunately, here in Central Florida, our public school teachers are among the lowest-paid in the country. People don’t get into teaching for the pay, but we need to pay our teachers a wage that reflects the value of their work to our families. We want to attract top teaching talent, and encourage good teachers to stick with it. We owe it to Florida’s children, and the long-term health of our economy and our state depend on it! That’s why I'm introducing legislation to establish a minimum starting salary for Florida’s teachers of $50,000 per year. Our proposal is completely paid-for, and won't cause a dime of tax increases. Our children need qualified educators, and we can’t get there without paying our teachers a competitive wage. Add your name: call on Tallahassee to pass the Florida Teacher Fair Pay Act!

Don't you want to hear The Donald argue for "Firing a rifle into the air while balls deep in a squealing hog"? Can Scott Walker read "Not giving a [hoot] about the Third World" with a straight face? And we all want to know who's got the cojones to throw in "inappropriately timed Holocaust jokes" (my money is on Ben Carson). I'll be catching the actual debate highlights on Comedy Central, but GOP CAH? I'd tune in for that.

GOP's "Pay to Play" Congressional Campaign Contract Condemned Across America WASHINGTON: As controversy continued to grow regarding a contract signed by numerous vulnerable Republican legislators with the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), promising to supply detailed information about their "legislative agenda" and "political justifications" to national Republican donors in exchange for financial support, numerous state affiliates of ProgressNow, one of the nation's largest and most influential progressive advocacy organizations, called on Republican candidates to withdraw from the program and disclose all correspondence with the NRCC. Rep. Ryan Costello (R, CD 6, Berks, Lehigh, Chester, Montgomery) is the only Pennsylvania Member of Congress who has agreed to this "pay to play" scheme. "Shame on Rep. Ryan Costello for selling Pennsylvania out to the same Washington, D.C. special interests he said he was running for office to fight," said Keystone Progress' Michael Morrill. "The voters won't forget this in the next election. If Costello really wants to put the people of Pennsylvania first, it's time to exit the 'Patriot Program ' and come clean about what he promised big donors and Republican Party bigwigs. If he doesn't, he'll be held accountable at the polls in 2016." According to the Washington Post: Two dozen House Republicans have agreed to privately detail their “legislative strategy” to party operatives, promising to offer “political justifications” for their goals in Congress. The Daily 202 obtained a copy of the three-page contract that the National Republican Congressional Committee requires members to sign if they want to participate in its Patriot Program. The initiative, designed to protect potentially vulnerable incumbents, brings with it special attention and access to mounds of campaign cash. But strings are attached. One of the 13 requirements is to submit an off-year “campaign plan” that includes: “Detailed, written legislative strategy that provides short-, intermediate-, and long-term legislative goals, including political justifications for those goals.” “Be sure to include local issues unique to the district or region,” the contract says. “Complete a Patriot Policy Priorities worksheet to be used by NRCC staff to evaluate legislative priorities for the current Congress and to promote and advocate for those priorities where appropriate.” The closely-held document offers a window into how much autonomy lawmakers often must forfeit to unelected Washington insiders.

Innocent man on Death row / Richard Glossip