As the government focuses on signing up those previously uninsured for healthcare insurance beginning 2014, it is important that national groups that receive government entitlements provide support for getting out the word. Unfortunately, the NFL has refused to do this, buckling under to right wing Republican pressure. People across the country need to push back on this short sighted decision and support the law of the land.

As the mom of two young boys and the Co-Founder of a group called Climate Parents, I felt hopeful last week when President Obama announced his climate plan, which includes reducing carbon pollution from power plants and scaling up clean energy. I was dismayed and upset when West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a member of the President’s own party, called the plan designed to make the world more stable and safe for our kids, “a war on America.” This is a reckless position. The truth is that the dirty energy interests Senator Manchin represents are putting our kids in danger, and his own state is among the hardest hit. More than one in five West Virginia high school students suffers from asthma, and water supplies are heavily contaminated from mountaintop removal mining. And is if that weren’t enough, communities across America are facing increasingly destructive storms, heat waves and drought caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The President’s plan to regulate power plants represents one of the most significant steps our nation can take to cut carbon pollution, given the failure of Congress to take more comprehensive action. Parents, grandparents, and anyone who loves kids expect our leaders to promote energy that is kid safe and climate safe, not block progress because of allegiance to deep-pocketed fossil fuel companies. We want energy that doesn’t make our kids sick or threaten our communities by worsening climate change. Urge Senator Manchin to stop his dangerous rhetoric and publicly support the President’s plan to cut carbon emissions from coal plants. Thank you for taking action! Lisa Hoyos Co-Founder and Director Climate Parents

The universal draft in the U.S. during WW II had a major impact on the success of civil rights and racial integration efforts in this country. Making such a policy for Israel a requirement for further U.S. aid would give Israel a chance of solving its internal apartheid problem.

Extracting and burning more oil will accelerate the devastating consequences of climate change, with rising sea levels, more severe flooding, and superstorms like Sandy and Katrina that global warming breeds. Hampton Roads, the second most vulnerable coastal area next to New Orleans, cries out for clean energy - not more dirty fossil fuel oil - to reduce CO2 emissions, already perilously high at 400 parts per million.

PA 511 is the law that CPS, the courts & law enforcement use to break the laws & CPS protocol in investigations & custody of children.

Though it sounds expensive, a free and complete education for everyone—from Head Start to college, including vocational school—is possible through savings from other government programs. It is a prosperous investment for all of us, except for the wealthiest Americans, because the side effect is that universal education would save tax dollars and increase the tax base! Once the children who normally grow up on welfare or in poor working families receive a complete education, the cycle of poverty will be broken. The overwhelming majority will have good jobs within reach, hope, and a real opportunity for a better life for themselves and their children. The American dream, which is currently being denied to them and their children, would finally be attainable. They would no longer need to rely on public assistance or be forced to turn to crime, two major expenses to taxpayers. They would become well-paid taxpayers, thus increasing the tax base, and consumers, thus boosting our economy. Let's make it happen. Let's make all education—from preschool to college, including trade schools— free for every American citizen of every age. The GOP and Tea Party conservatives would never let this happen, because they want inequality, poverty, injustice, suffering, and crime to continue in perpetuity. They want the status quo to be permanent! We must end this legislative nightmare in our government by eliminating the GOP and Tea Party conservatives. Join me in my quest for a better America! -William J Ryan

The state plans to cut Medicaid provider pay to those taking care of the people that have help build this great state. Quality care can not be achieved if we allow them to cut 20-25% from a number that's already to low. Tell our leaders that we want allow them to cut cost in the care of so many that mean so much to us and this state!

UC has decided that rather than maintain its forests in the hills above the campus, it would prefer to simply remove all the tall trees. UC has received tentative approval for a FEMA grant of about $2 million that they intend to use to remove in excess of 50,000 mature trees, apply tens of thousands of gallons of herbicides over the next 13 years, and leave 2 feet of highly flammable wood chips on the ground. Not only will this plan destroy the animal habitat, it will remove essentially all the shade, will make the cleared areas as well as the UC campus and the city of Berkeley substantially warmer, will destabilize steep hillsides, will release enormous amounts of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere….and will significantly increase the risk of fires. Why does UC want to do this? To clear the land for development and to shift maintenance costs from the University to the federal government. So, what's the Berkeley City Council doing about this? NOTHING!

When IndyMac Bank failed on July 11th 2008 I was one of the uninsured depositor's that lost $105, 000.00. But if it was not for Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and President Obama signing the Wall Street Reform the FDIC is now holding $61,000.00 of my deposits..

Reyna García, a 30-year-old woman who works for the California grocery chain Albertsons, lost her child when supervisors ignored multiple letters from her doctor over a period of months stating she had a high risk pregnancy and could not handle heavy lifting. She asked to leave work while in pain, but her request was denied and she continued her heavy lifting duties, afraid of losing her job and her insurance from Albertsons. When she went into labor that night, she found out that her baby was losing fluid and sustaining brain damage. She gave birth two days later, but the baby only lived for a few minutes. Shame on Albertsons. Demand that Albertsons CEO Robert Miller enforce policies that protect any pregnant employee and their baby.

Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT), Chris Gibson (R-NY), Rick Nolan (D-MN), and Walter Jones (R-NC) have introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R.2494) to block U.S. military intervention in Syria without an affirmative vote of Congress. Identical legislation (S.1201) has been introduced in the Senate by Sens. Tom Udall (D-NM), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT). Sending military assistance to Syrian rebels, or intervening directly, will lead to Americanization of Syria's sectarian civil war. Congress and the American people should be part of a vigorous debate before any such military escalation takes place. U.S. military intervention without Congressional authorization would violate the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. Urge the Senate and the House and to support the Udall/Paul and Gibson/Welch bills to block U.S. military intervention in Syria without Congressional approval.

Jeff Olson is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-Bank of America messages on San Diego sidewalks in water-soluble chalk. He is facing a 13-year jail sentence, and the judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech -- especially against huge banks and corporate interests like Bank of America. Judge Howard Shore has erred by disallowing this as a defense, and MUST immediately reverse his decision.