Dallas 20-year-old Sir Young's sexual assault should have landed him in jail for decades. Instead he got community service — at a rape crisis center.

We cannot bury our heads in the sand. There is nothing clean or good about nuclear energy. We are left with a legacy of nuclear waste and horrific nuclear pollution. This is not something I want future generations to have to live with. It is not responsible to use energy that has the potential to be so dangerous and destructive as we clearly have seen with Chernobyl, Fukushima - how many examples do governments need before this madness is stopped. No matter how profitable nuclear power is to government, this means nothing if peoples, air, rain, and environment are at some point in the future polluted with radiation . The risks are too high and cannot be justified. Radioactive pollution can be a very dangerous thing because radiation mutates DNA, causing abnormal growth and possibly cancer, and this radiation remains in the atmosphere for years, slowly diminishing over time. Treatment of radiation waste cannot be done through degradation by chemical or biological processes. Additionally, many radioactive materials have very long half-times (time necessary for half of the material to degrade or transform into non-radioactive materials) and thus radiation waste may pose a risk for many years after it was produced.

An open internet is a lifeline for my everyday livelihood. I say this because my only life communication is through the open internet. So, this idea of charging high ridiculous fees is preposterous. Especially being on a poor mans budget.

The internet allows me to get online professional journals, medical updates, health information; join professional health organizations; get job leads; participate in health webinars. Personally, it links me to family and members of my congregation. Most of my peer-friends are elders like me and having this electronic connection--without high costs--is very important in our lives.

I am about to graduate from school with a degree in videography, and the Internet is my best source of freelance work. This change will make my portfolio website nearly invisible. How am I supposed to find work then?

This is a no brainer! An open Internet is the only option if we're trying to keep things fair and away from greedy paws like Comcast. I, being a musician, can't stress enough how hugely the open Internet has helped independent musicians survive and distribute their music without the help of greedy record companies. As we all know, in the recent past, major record companies tried to control how we use the internet. We fought them, and we won. The whole music industry is a whole lot more fair and balanced than before. One can publish, market, and sell their music without ever talking to a record company. I think if companies like Verizon and Comcast are regulating the Web, they will start to try and regulate everything else. This will directly effect music. If one person or corporation has too much power they tend to put their priorities first and that almost always screws the majority. This is a fact. So let's end this. We're watching you, Mr. Wheeler.

Stanford Professor Ian Morris argues that British colonialism in India eliminated "savagery," that genocides only killed two percent of the century's population, so they weren't that big a deal, and that obliterating the Native American population was justified since "people almost never give up their freedoms... unless forced to do so."

Surely by now you've heard about the despicable, disgusting racist comments made by Clippers owner Donald Sterling. This situation is bigger than just basketball. The NBA holds enormous power over our cultural values - having a significantly large impact on American youth.

Boko Haram is one of the most violent, misogynistic and notorious terrorist vigilante groups in the world. They've just kidnapped over 250 Nigerian girls for human trafficking as sex slaves and child brides — and their government is doing nothing to help them.

The Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 sounds like much-needed reform for greater consumer protection. It's actually a bait-and-switch to let airlines bury tax spikes in their ticket price.

As a disabled person, this was my main daily link to the outside world. If my legs hurt too much to get up, my wife can bring her laptop in to me, and I can see what is happening in the world and contact others.

As an IT Professional, an open Internet is important for my day-to-day work where I research technical issues, often finding answers on free blogs and forums. As a person with fibromyalgia and a spouse to an MS patient, an open Internet is important to me as a medium for support networks and medical articles.