House Bill 1507 is what ALEC and the Koch brothers call a “Paycheck Protection” bill. As stated by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, "The facts are clear, even though you won’t hear them in the commercials that the Koch brothers are financing. Automatic payroll deduction of dues is not mandated by any law, rather it is bargained for during contract negotiations. This deduction does not cost taxpayers money. Unions already agreed to reimburse the state for costs associated with deductions of PAC funds, but according to the [Commonwealth] of Pennsylvania, there is no measurable cost to be reimbursed." This bill does not address any real and substantive issue. Therefore, it is nothing more than political theater and a thinly veiled attack on Pennsylvania's workers.

I’m from West Virginia, and the recent chemical spill breaks my heart, makes me very angry, and makes me scared for my friends and family. Imagine not being able to give your children a glass of water to drink. Imagine not being able to cook for them, or having to tell them that they can't bathe or brush their teeth because the water will make them sick. Imagine being pregnant and told that the water could be harmful to your pregnancy. It's terrifying. That’s what happened to tens of thousands of moms in West Virginia, including many of my friends, because a toxic foaming agent used in coal processing, leaked into the Elk River and contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians, cutting them off from clean water for as many as 10 days. THE RECENT SPILL IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE DANGERS OF RELYING ON DIRTY ENERGY! We all know it's time to make our energy cleaner and safer to protect the health of our families. Power plants produce 40% of our country's carbon pollution, which creates smog and provokes asthma at a time when one in 10 kids have it. There's a proposal to finally limit power plant carbon emissions. Please help me tell the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that American families want cleaner and safer energy to protect our families’ health and sign on to demand cleaner power plants now.

In his budget address, Governor Tom Corbett announced plans to open up Pennsylvania's state forests to fracking. It's a short-sighted attempt to balance the state budget. Our state forests are too precious to put in the hands of drillers. And, since pollution knows no boundaries, drilling's detrimental effects would extend far beyond our forests' borders, impacting our health, safety, and economy. Public opinion polls have shown that the majority of Pennsylvanians oppose fracking on public lands, but our Governor isn't listening, so we need to get louder. Tell the Governor and the legislature to protect our state forests from fracking! (We are gathering more signatures on this petition we originally delivered on February 25th. We'll be in Harrisburg on June 17th with the additional signatures. The original text of the petition continues below.) We will be delivering this petition to the Governor's office on February 25th. Please plan to join us at a rally in the Rotunda at 11:00. More details on that will be available soon. And please be sure to provide your complete name and address when you sign. Thank you!

General Electric is one of the worst corporate tax dodgers out there. It has managed to pay ZERO dollars in federal income taxes for four recent years -- thanks to some big tax loopholes and some clever accounting. The company has mobilized a small army of lobbyists in Washington this year, because one of its most profitable tax loopholes has just expired. This loophole -- known as the "active financing" loophole -- lets General Electric put off paying its U.S. taxes indefinitely when it shifts the profits it makes from interest and dividends to offshore tax havens. This one loophole will cost $70 billion over the next 10 years. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that a large package of corporate tax loopholes, which includes the active financing loophole, should be renewed without the cost being covered. That’s not right. Our country should not go further into debt to keep a tax loophole open for a profitable, tax-dodging corporation like General Electric. This loophole shouldn’t even exist in the first place. Tell Sen. McConnell to end the active financing tax loophole, period. Make General Electric and other big corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

“In the U.S. Army, our service men and women are expected to exemplify the values contained in the Acronym LDRSHIP. Loyalty-Duty- Respect - Selfless Service-Honor-Integrity-Personal Courage. I believe our political and corporate leaders must adopt these values if we are to have a Kentucky and America that works for all of us. The sheer greed of many politicians and Corporate Leaders is disloyal and a disservice to our communities, workers, Kentucky families and the best interest of our Nation. The ever- widening disparity in America is unethical, disrespectful to working men and women, dishonorable, and completely lacking in integrity – and is absolutely unsustainable. If America is to maintain our position in the world, we need leaders not looters. Anything else is immoral, inconsistent with our American values and truly puts Kentucky and the United States at a competitive disadvantage. If morality escapes our corporate leaders – as it appears to, then we must have folks in government that will not fail to protect the American Worker, our Families and the long-term economic health of our nation.” In Congress, I pledge to represent hard working families in the fight for a livable wage. Please join our campaign to raise the minimum wage by signing this petition.

On March 3, 2014 Say Media is closing Catster/Dogster community section for good. After just having our 10th anniversary, We as a family, have invested so much time and love into building our community, including all of our pages, diaries, groups, relationships, and messages, and friendships over the years. We are asking Say Media do not make us Homeless. Please work with us to keep it running -- and help us to make it even better than before!

A year later, I am still paying for a dental crown, even with some, but inadequate insurance. A hospitalization or surgery can bankrupt a family. We can't afford as a culture to neglect the working poor. As a former teacher, I have seen the effects of healthcare neglected in little children who just can't learn due to chronic coughs, lack of meds, etc. We as a culture must do better!

The Afghan Parliament has passed a law that would effectively silence women and girls who are attacked by family members by banning them from testifying against anyone they are related to... no matter how horrible the crime. President Karzai could sign this bill any day now, so please sign the petition now. The United States has invested too much in Afghanistan to allow it to backslide to the barbarism women and girls faced under Taliban rule.

I am tired of the petty efforts to bias our representative elections in any direction. Protecting the fairness of our representative government is fundamental to American democracy. With increased data availability and computer power politicians have been able to more accurately define districts that have an engineered bias. It is time for America to use that same data availability and computer power to bring equality back into the redistricting process and out of the hands of our politicians.

DALnet, in behalf of chatters from Davao and other city in the Philippines. This channel is also important to us since it represents our city (Davao City) one of the biggest city here in the Philippines. The Land of Promise.

La France a besoin d'un Obama de lui faire rappeler les devoirs de la France ,de la révolution française de 1789. Et puis, la France est une bonne élève de la maison blanche ,il suffit qu'Obama interpelle Hollande ,lors de cette visite et le président français ferait le nécessaire soit par décret soit d'inscrire cette question à l'ordre du jour à l'assemblée nationale française.

On Wednesday 2/5/14's airing of Arrow, a member of the League of Assassins utters the saying "La ilaha illa lah", Arabic for "there is no God but God", just before killing himself, so that the heroic lead character Oliver Queen and his love interest, Black Canary can get any information from him. This phrase represents one of the greatest oaths any Muslim, a believer of Islam, can make in being a Muslim, and is known as the declaration of faith. In a studio realm that seemingly has a lust for demonizing Islam, I ask that you sign this petition demanding that the creators of this DC Comics/CW Studios title issue a statement of apology for including this erroneous and insulting part of the Episode's script.