Three of the richest counties in Pennsylvania have voted to ban Marcellus Shale drilling in their counties. The rest of us are having it shoved down our throats. My ancestors were farmers here in Southwestern PA, which is under seige by these drillers and now the countryside in covered with water buffaloes for private homes drinking water. I and my family all live in Southwestern PA and need clean water too Help Us!

Recently a woman in China was in the news because huge cancerous growths were growing on her face. She is a poor woman and the new politics of selfishness in China means she is unable to receive treatment as she would have when the country provided its citizens with health care. She is disfigured, lonely, jeered at and called a monster because of how she looks. Her response: I am not a monster, I am a mother, and I am ill. We as a collective world can certainly raise enough funds for our sister's operation. I am appealing to whoever knows how to do this to step forward: sign the petition that we can, in fact, do this. Then help continue the process of raising the necessary money. I will contribute, of course, and know in my heart that others will be glad to do so, too.

A Tucson, Arizona, police officer, Korey Lankow, left his drug sniffing dog named Jeg in his police car for over an hour in 98 degree heat. The dog had to be euthanized the next day as the dog's organs were shutting down. http://azstarnet.com/news/local/drug-sniffing-dog-left-in-dps-patrol-car-is-euthanized/article_64255c13-7743-55c0-a783-5f05cb58663c.html

Illegal weapons so readily available to urban kids to kill each other. The cavalier attitude in which we accept these tragedies is shameful. How no one seems to really care. Certain individuals get upset briefly and then things are back to normal. My son was murdered last year. If the laws would change to at least 20 years if you are caught with an illegal weapon ( no deals or negotiations) the climate of this violence would change. They would seriously take a look at picking up a weapon knowing what could happen. I know the IRA would block this every way they could. Does no one have the guts to stand up to them.

This petition is to ask the NCAA and Penn State university to remove Joe Paterno's Statue and suspend the Football program for 5 years consecutively.

Limiting contributions to SuperPACS, Restricting Lobbyist access to elected officials.

How can we trust presidential candidate that says he favor tax breaks for the rich and doesnt show up his tax records.

The TMUA, a board composed of the mayor and 6 unelected people have ignored the recommendations that the nationally renowned water expert, Bob Bowcock presented to Tulsa for a SAFE, effective and affordable option for Tulsa to meet the new EPA water guidelines. The TMUA chose to use chloramine instead, in spite of public outcry and new information about the dangers of chloramine. While the TMUA assures us that chlroamine is safe, it is known to damage health and property. Current research is showing that the unregulated byproducts of chlroamine damages DNA, cells, is carcinogenic and has multiple adverse health affects. It is know to leach lead into the water. Chloramine cannot be boiled out, distilled out or evaporated out and filters like reverse osmosis won't remove it!

Numerous sources from the Boston Globe, Mother Jones to ABC News have produced detailed documentation, including SEC filings, that appear to indicate that Mitt Romney has lied to the SEC regarding his roll at Bain Capital between 1999 until 2002. I would like the US Department of Justice to investigate if criminal laws have been broken regarding these matters!

Numerous sources from the Boston Globe, Mother Jones to ABC News have produced detailed documentation, including SEC filings, that appear to indicate that Mitt Romney may have lied to the SEC regarding his roll at Bain Capital between 1999 until 2002. I would like the US Department of Justice to investigate if criminal laws have been broken regarding these matters!

There are over 50,000 documented uses for industrial hemp from efficiently providing fiber to make paper products and textiles to plastics that can be made into car bodies almost impervious to sledge hammers. Currently, U.S. farmers are forbidden by law to compete with Canadian and other countries' farmers to produce hemp for the U.S. market and the U.S. is forced to import. It's time to recognize that the real "reefer madness" is the madness by which government has denied Americans access to so many crucial hemp-based solutions to myriad problems from deforestation to malnutrition and so many others. End the insane war-on-drugs policies that put America behind the rest of the world in taking advantage of hemp-based innovations.

For many years Government officials have been taking advantage of high pay; long, paid vacations; and pensions unlike that of anything anyone really has a right to. Sure they are in charge of running our country, but others out there are in charge of supporting and securing our country that do not get even a 1/3 of that of the government officials. It seems a bit of a cheat that while so many of our nation is loosing their jobs, houses and health the officials are not impacted by the same threat to income and foreclosure that the majority of the country are subjected to.