so all Walmart Association can get a Full Time Job for Living Income Wage from Tom P Noonan

It's about stopping our urge to use war as a way to show patriotism and U.S. "exceptionalism". War enriches the country's elite while desecrating the earth and spilling innocent blood. It doesn't solve problems, it creates more for the future. War is outdated, it's time to try diplomacy instead.

The IRS states that one of the rules a church must follow to maintain its tax exempt status is not to "attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates." (Section 501 (c)(3) Internal Revenue Code) Though many may avoid the first caveat by claiming political activities do not comprise a 'substantial' part of their activities, they regularly break the second part. This petition calls for an investigation by the IRS into the exempt status of any church in violation of the rules required to maintain tax exempt status and repeal such status of any church or charitable organization in violation.

Re write the laws that congress has passed that only benefit themselves and not the American people. Congress needs to participate in our society.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie is campaigning for Mitt Romney and Scott Walker while pushing a legislative agenda that is as cruel, unfair and counterproductive as any conservative con-artist ot Tea Party pinhead in America. Meanwhile, his biggest cheerleaders are Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver and her Essex County employers. If is time for New Jersey Democrats to stand up to the bully instead of rolling over for Republicans!

There should be a Constitutional Amendment banning divorce in all cases save adultery as taught by the Christian scriptures and the founder of the Christian religion. An amendment should be added to the constitution forbidding all other divorce in order to protect traditional marriage.

Get the minimum wage higher in the State than $7.25 an hour. This does not work for the State. What will work for the State $11.00. If CA can have a wage of $10.00 why not NY have an $11.00 that would work for most people in the State, 35 hours a week at $11.00 that would come out to $385.00 a week people can live that way. Put something away for savings too.

California could turn the tide on election reform by passing the California DISCLOSE Act, a measure that would shed light on the shadowy interests who depend on secrecy to influence elections. The California DISCLOSE Act (Assembly Bill 1648) would bring true transparency to state elections, ensuring that top donors for every political ad are shown in the ads themselves -- so California voters know who is trying to buy their support. The bill is just one vote shy of passage. Sign our petition to holdout state legislators and Assembly leaders to pass the California DISCLOSE Act today.

Since the Oil Embargo of the 1970's I have listened to members of Congress lament the fact that the use of FOREIGN OIL was America's only hope to remain a modern, industrialized nation. That is not the case today due to America's abundance of natural gas. A program to encourage immediate use of this resource will create American JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, save American lives now being spent keeping the shipping lanes open for FOREIGN OIL and provide a huge assist in balancing our national budget.

If the GOP and the Ryan plan harm Social Security for all who paid into it, the government will owe us all what we paid into it.

Since the Oil Embargo of the 1970's I have listened to members of Congress lament the fact that the use of FOREIGN OIL was America's only hope to remain a modern, industrialized nation. That is not the case today due to America's abundance of natural gas. A program to encourage immediate use of this resource will create American JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, save American lives now being spent keeping the shipping lanes open for FOREIGN OIL and provide a huge assist in balancing our national budget.

It's about fairness. There are still veterans from WWII and the wars after that, that have earned and deserve recognition for action that helped win the wars. It should be considered by a group of people that understand what the action was and why it deserves recognition. The way it is now, the request first goes to liaisons who decide to allow it to get to the proper channel for evaluation. It gives them too much power and control over the request. The Awards Committee should be the judges and not the liaisons.