The genital mutilation of girls( a kind of circumsion) is both cruel and obscene and humiliating, an offense against humanity without any medical justification. The result causes serious physical complications in child birth and inhibits the natural act of procreation. I have seen documentaries of this crime against females and find it revolting.

I would like Starbucks to change its corporate policy and prohibt guns in all Starbucks coffee shops.

Our Government wants us yo finance the upper class. By paying more than our fair share in all taxes, fed. state, property and sale related[ includes gas and utilities. Tell your congressional representatives we need equity.

On Election Day, we thought we were voting for a Democrat, when we voted for State Senator David Carlucci. But Senator Carlucci has joined the Independent Democratic Caucus "coalition" government that will just keep Republicans in power. We voted for change. We elected Democrats to support our Democratic values: protecting reproductive health, improving gun control, ending the influence of big money on politics with public financing of elections, and raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation. Putting Republicans in power means throwing the Democratic agenda under the bus. That's wrong. Senator Carlucci, please act like a REAL Democrat, end this phony "coalition" that just allows Republicans to stay in power, and vote for Democratic Leadership in Albany!

This removal of the cap would help social security remain solvent by bringing in more money from those wealthy individuals who have reached the limits and no longer pay in to it. Surely those whose income is high enough that $110,000 is taken out for social security, they can afford to continue to have it taken out once they go beyond that figure.

Between the 1940's and 1960's several boys were killed at this school, buried in unmarked graves, and their families were lied to about it. Here is the link to the story. http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/13/us/florida-graves-mystery/index.html Shouldn't these children have a proper burial? Shouldn't the remaining family members have the truth about what happened to these kids? Is the state of Florida actually going to admit what may have actually happened and open themselves up to lawsuits? We all know that atrocities are committed every day, and we can't always find the truth, no matter how hard we try, but I feel this is important. If you agree, please sign.

Everyone in America should be concerned about these six banks which control close to 60 trillion U.S. dollars. Why? These banks are FDIC insured because they are now mortgage banks. No matter what laws have been written since there last collapse, the American tax payer is still on the hook. Secondly, they wield way too much power on Congress since insider trading is not illegal for our elected representatives. Thirdly, we need to now enforce the Volcker Rule and Glass Stiegall to protect Americans and hold the CEOs accountable for their hedge fund bets and derivative bundled packages. Investment banks should not be mortgage lending institutions.

It destroys American citizens' ability to take responsibility for their government and the way public officials are elected.

Republicans in Michigan are pushing "right to work" legislation under the guise that it is about freedom of association. We should extend this concept to all associations. Therefore, it should also be voluntary to pay Michigan state taxes. The government should welcome this as it will allow them to better respond to the needs of their residents.

Maryland's death penalty makes too many mistakes. It diverts funds from the real needs of victims' families. And it certainly doesn’t do anything to solve or prevent crimes. There have been no death sentences since 2004, and no executions since 2005, but it remains a huge drain on our budget. 2012 was quite a year for progressives in Maryland – passage of the DREAM Act and marriage equality were both great steps forward. Now it’s time to finish the job and repeal the death penalty.

Ending drone attacks by the United States military.

I have relatives that are currently attending Chicago Public Schools which are grossly underfunded in some areas should be treated with the same urgency as Charter Schools because public money from the Lottery is available but not used for something as important as educating children and hiring more teachers