The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly announce whether or not it will allow the State of Arizona's proposed discriminatory SB1070 bill to pass. The bill proposes that anyone suspected of being here without proper documentation can be stopped by police for this reason alone. Please sign this petition if you agree that the bill's passing would infringe on our rights and on our families.

Asian carp threaten the entire eco-system of the Great Lakes and all industries and lifestyle that these beautiful lakes support. We can stop them by concerted and immediate action. We need only restore the Chicago River to its original direction!

Recently, Republican members of the state legislature censured two Democratic female legislators and refused them the right to speak on the house floor. Their offense? Using the word "vagina." By refusing to let representatives Lisa Brown and Barb Byrum speak, Republicans have effectively denied thousands of Michigan citizens the right to a voice in government. This cynical, mean-spirited action erodes the very foundation of representative democracy. Join me in demanding an end to such undemocratic, and ultimately unpatriotic, actions and in demanding an apology to the women legislators and their constituents. Let the Republicans know that if they refuse to do so, we will seek further redress. Specifically, they have by their actions unquestionably violated their oath of office: to protect and defend the constitution.

Pat Quinn has cut the Illinois Rx Drug Program to help balance the budget. This program helped over 200,000 seniors and people with Disabilities. I am now facing drug costs of over $800 a month.

Tell Idaho Public Utilities Commission to say no to the proposed rate increases by Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power.

A request that politicians stop playing Playground Politics and start seriously addressing the severe and urgent problems this country faces. Instead of squabbling like spiteful spoilt kids that are oblivious to the world out side of their precious sandbox it is time for politicians to grow up and start behaving like intelligent focussed adults that were elected to solve problems not to look for ways to create them. The American people deserve mature behavior from their elected party officials that are presently more content to indulge themselves in petty party sniping than they are working in a non partisan way to get this country out of the biggest hole it has ever been in.Right now they all might as well be terrorists doing everything in their power to destroy the future of this country by their reckless disregard for the economic hardships that normal hard working Americans are being exposed to. We are all suffering the consequences of their indifference and insufferable puerile antics. In short they just need to grow up, put partisan politics aside and start working toward a common workable solution that will put the country back on it's feet again.

Stop attacking other countries for ANY reason. Our military is for defense only. Stop the war on DRUGS; didn't we learn from alcohol prohibition? It only CREATES criminals. Stop the "war on poverty" Govt. should get out of the way and leave charity to CHARITIES.

With all the money we spent on two unnecessary wars; private contractors for the military benefiting the private industry; IT IS TIME TO HELP OUR STUDENTS BY FORGIVING STUDENT LOANS WHICH INCLUDES AN EXORBITANT AMOUNT COVERING INTEREST.

UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan is a well-respected educational leader who has fought for incremental, consensus-based change. This was not acceptable to Helen Dragas Chair of UVa' Board of Visitors who expects a deep cutting of liberal arts departments and worked for months to engineer Sullivan's dismissal. The episode points out serious defects in UVa's governing structure. We can make this right by rehiring President Sullivan and by adding alumni and faculty-elected trustees to the Board of Visitors.

The USA prison system is barbaric, racist, and unjust. The privatization of prisons make it the largest internal industry. What does this say about us? Let's no longer turn our backs on the most vulnerable population - this unmentionable shadow side of our nation.

Congress is the body that makes the laws and can override the President's veto. We need to go to the source of our problems and not look toward the President who just serves as an idea man and a fall guy. We should be concentrating more on who gets into and remains in Congress. In Obama's first term, even if he tried to deliver on what the American majority said that they wanted by their vote, the Democrats who were in control of Congress at the time did not allow it; now, the Republicans aren't either. They have said it is their main goal to make Obama a one-term President verses doing what they can to better our country! Congresses complacency may be due to their individual wealth and lack of enforcement for them to pay their taxes, so they in fact, are out of touch with our working class society. No matter what President we vote into office, as long as the same members remain in Congress with their self-serving policies, such as great Healthcare packages for their families, which when offered to us are labeled Socialist, and their finances which allow them to afford to send their kids to college and have off shore accounts. This body of legislation would not want the higher echelon to be taxed at a higher rate because at the 1.3million dollars they currently owe and have not paid, they would refuse to pay that too. They are out of touch and also as of yet untouchable!!! WE need to CHANGE them then maybe our Presidents can do what the voting majority want!

Nancy Pelosi on CSPAN: "Make no mistake, the Republicans are going after Eric Holder, because he is fighting the Republicans' voter suppression efforts!" And after AG Holder refused to turn over subpoenaed records that would have compromised the safety of border agents, Mexican officials, and others, the House Oversight committee voted along party lines to hold him in contempt of Congress. President Obama has invoked executive privilege in order to further protect those involved. Yet Speaker Boehner vows to hold a vote of the full House next week and has the power to imprison the Attorney General when it passes.