A Sacramento DA has ordered that a 17 year old girl who reported a sexual assault be held in juvenile detention to ensure she testifies in court against her assailant. She is a ward of the state and her bail was set at $50,000. Imprisoning this young woman will not stop rapists but will, instead, deter other victims from coming forward.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. Horace Walpole

Many internship sites and jobs, in particular ones related to the medical or mental health field specifically hire candidates based on their sex/ gender. Many applicants are told that they were not hired due to the fact that the site wanted more men or more women. Too many qualified applicants are rejected based on the fact that they are a man or a woman and are openly told that they're greatly qualified but were only not hire due to the fact that they are the sex that they are. The same is true for different cultures. It's about time that the hiring process was based on merit rather than someone's sex, religion, sexual orientation, or country of origin.

Undocumented workers are human beings who deserve to have rights and be a part of this country. There are many myths on how undocumented workers harm the country's economy when actually they can benefit it. There needs to be a gateway for undocumented workers to gain citizenship in this country. Politicians avoid this topic but it needs to be dealt with. We need to defend these people and give them a chance to live life in a country that they respect and love without them having to fear being deported.

The Glass-Stegall act was created during the Depression of the 1930's as a way of safeguarding people's bank accounts. It forbade the banks from gambling with depositors' money in risky enterprises. The repeal of Glass-Steagall back in 1999 paved the way for the financial crash of 2008. Repeal Gramm-Leach-Bliley (which took away the Glass-Steagall protection) and bring back sensible regulation!

If the State or the US government should begin to require voter ID at the polls, then the State needs to provide that photo ID at the government's expense. TSA (Transportation Safety) at all the airports has cost the government (the taxpayers) over $50 Billion. They have effectively uncovered and confiscated numerous nail clippers, bottles of perfume and shaving lotion, but to date no terrorist. Think what that money could have done for our educational system. At least we would have safe and better equipped schools for our children. Photo Identification unless provided at State expense is a new "Poll Tax" which has been determined to be unconstitutional. Please sign to stop this right wing paranoid foolishness about requiring a photo ID to be allowed to exercise the right to vote.

While Ted Stevens’ best friend Bill Allen and other oil executives were bribing Alaska’s legislators, including Ted's son Ben Stevens, corruption in Alaska grew to that critical mass necessary to enable corruption to become self sustaining with or without oil backed bribery schemes. End result, communities across Alaska are dominated by persons who’ve secured an unfair advantage over local commerce by pouring money into the campaigns of elected officials who sustain their unfair advantage.

THE DECISION MADE BY THE SUPREME COURT THAT CORP.S WERE LIKE PEOPLE AND COULD SPEND UNLIMITED AMOUNTS OF MONEY ON POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS WAS ANTI "WE THE PEOPLE" SO NOW WE CAN ELECT GENERAL ELECTRIC INSTEAD OF GENERAL EISINHOWER ?? GET MONEY OUT OF ELECTIONS!

We need to stop politicians from getting pensions and health care after only two years of service. The pensions should be part of social security with the same laws as to starting and the health care (that is much better than what is available to the general public) should not be available for a lifetime, but part of some other health care system

President Obama, inspite of the misguided gratuitous rude behavior and disrespectful political inuendos that have been streamed against him by a small biased minority, deserves our support as a can-do and most capable U.S. President

Goverment attempting to take money from retired educators and force current educators to lose dollars that they have been promised upon retirement.

I am so frustrated that unions are not out there letting people know why unions are important. Even union members say bad things about unions. We need an ad campaign like the one Clint Eastwood did for the Superbowl that could show what unions are about. If we are to win the Walker Recall election here in Wisconsin, someone has to get that info to the electorate.