We need to stop the cruel way of taking of a life of a Bear. This barbaric practice needs to stop and there is no need for it to be seen on TV or to promote the killing of bears or any other form of life. This is not acceptable behavior to be seen on neither the History Channel nor any other television show.

Chris Christie has held over 120 public town hall events in cities across New Jersey. He has travelled the country stumping for the Republican Governor’s Association and promoting his own presidential aspirations. Unfortunately, he has avoided holding a Town Hall forum in his home town of Newark, the largest city in New Jersey and a city whose residents are struggling with urgent social and economic issues. Consider the following facts: ***Chris Christie re-appointed Cami Anderson as the superintendent of Newark Public Schools despite the broad and deep opposition to her leadership. Both the Newark Board of Education and the Newark City Council have passed votes of no confidence in Cami’s leadership. ***Chris Christie has refused to follow the state mandated funding formula for public schools, denying millions of dollars to educating Newark’s next generation. ***Chris Christie diverted funds meant for Sandy victims who live in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark to his political supporters. To this day, families continue to struggle with the aftermath of the storm. ***Chris Christie diverted $75 million in bank settlement money meant for struggling homeowners to fund a tax break for the wealthiest New Jerseyans, leaving many Newark families in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure. All of these important decisions have been made without a meaningful process for local decision-making and participation by Newark’s residents. Yet, Chris Christie’s physical presence in Newark has been non-existent – at least to the general public’s knowledge. Join us and demand that Chris Christie schedules and attends a well-publicized Town Hall event in Newark to discuss the urgent issues that plague our city!

Despite warnings from the Health Policy Commission and leading health care experts that the merger of Partners HealthCare and South Shore Hospital – as well as Partners’ acquisition of Hallmark Health System – will drive up Massachusetts’ health care costs and hurt competition, Attorney General Martha Coakley approved the deal. Her decision to allow this merger is a disservice to the interests of patients, families, communities, and businesses throughout our state. It permits expansion of Partners’ market dominance in return for timid and unenforceable conditions of conduct. Furthermore, this deal is the product of secret, closed-door negotiations – a process bound to injure the public’s trust. The lack of an open dialogue involving the people of Massachusetts has denied residents, other health care providers, and employers the chance to voice legitimate and serious objections to this expansion of Partners’ market power. This is a time when rising health care cost is the most important single obstacle to the ability of businesses in our state to grow and hire workers. In addition, millions of individuals and families across Massachusetts struggle under the cost of care and worry about their continuing access to the providers of their choice. At bottom, the people of Massachusetts simply cannot afford this deal. It will harm the Massachusetts health care system for a decade. We urge Judge Sanders to reverse Attorney General Coakley’s unwise and imprudent decision. It will cause permanent and irreparable harm to the Massachusetts health care system.

Reduce Corruption -> Restore Democracy. Congress has been corrupted by big money. Our elected officials primarily represent special interests instead of We The People. From the tax code to education, climate change to the national debt — they'll never fix anything that matters to us until we end the legalized corruption and make them represent us. The American Anti-Corruption Act: Prevents members of Congress from raising money from the interest they regulate; Puts tough limits on unregulated Super PACs so they have to play by the rules; Mandates full transparency so we know who works for who; And gives voters a $100 Tax Rebate that they can contribute to the candidate and party of their choice. Learn More: www.anticorruptionact.org .

We are in high school, if we are trusted with licenses and some of us are trusted to vote, then why cant we go off campus for lunch?

As a daughter of holocaust survivors, sending the childeren back reminds me of the horrors of WWII when shiploads of Jews were turned away and returned to Europe for certain death. We are better than that. Hopefully, the US learned from that experience.

I have a graduate degree from an HBCU and I believe these institutions are vital to our community. This move is a blatant Trojan horse and must be stopped.

I am a Certified Nursing Assistant who has been twice sued for eviction due to loss of pay from being sick from viruses and bugs acquired at my job. I have almost 10 years of experience and still have not earned the right to be sick from working with sick people and seeing that my state is fighting against my personal health and financial situation just makes me ashamed of my family for letting me be born in this state. Let's make ourselves proud of Indiana again! Contact your state senator or representative or the governor I don't care but please join this fight!

Two years ago Betty Yee decided to run for Controller. The seat would be open and, for Betty Yee, who is a recognized and well-respected expert in budget, taxation and fiscal policy, the job was a perfect fit. The campaign was going very well. Everyone was happy. (See www.bettyyee.com) Then, almost a year later, John Perez, termed out and looking for a place to land, decided that HE wanted to run for Controller! With Betty’s STRONG GRASSROOTS SUPPORT this proved to be no easy task. For years Betty has not only been a leader in her fields of budget, finance and tax policy – she had also been a leader on important issues including enacting state tax equity for same sex couples, expanding open space preservation with tax relief, updating state tax rules to promote a green economy and offering free resources to small businesses. Because there were two Democrats splitting the vote, the Republican won first place with Betty Yee coming in second ahead of Perez who is in third place. The election was certified. As the WINNING DEMOCRAT, Betty Yee was endorsed by the Democratic Party. BUT then Perez called for a recount of THE PRECINCTS IN WHICH HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT FIND SOME VOTES. A Democrat challenging a fellow Democrat – not good for Democratic Party! First he entered into a race in which a much loved, highly qualified and progressive Democrat was already running AND when he lost he demanded a recount. JOHN PEREZ – STOP THE RECOUNT NOW AND CONCEDE. SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC UNITY.

The current, erroneously written 14th Amendment, created largely by railroad executives, went against what had been the previous American standard, based upon English common law, to carefully differentiate between "natural" or "human" persons and "artificial" or "corporate" persons when creating laws. The failure to differentiate between humans and corporations has perverted our entire political system.

Republican representative Amo Houghton commented at the time of OTA’s defunding that "we are cutting off one of the most important arms of Congress when we cut off unbiased knowledge about science and technology". While campaigning, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to restore the OTA if elected President

I'm pissed as hell at Congress for not governing and for Boehner's audacity for saying he'll sue Obama.