Microsoft is now rethinking its support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act – better known as CISPA – which passed out of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last week.

According to a new HHS report, 4.8 percent of Americans had a serious mental illness in 2009. Of those who had a serious mental illness, one-fourth had a concurrent substance-abuse illness. We shouldn’t be ignoring this!

Liberals say our nation’s GDP is down because government spending is dow. But government spending is actually up, just not growing as fast as liberals planned.

Aren’t you glad that the Supreme Court is supposed to judge Arizona’s actions according to the law, not according to what the press puts in the headlines.

With corporations calling the shots in Washington – long-term sustainability of the planet takes a back seat to short-term profits.

We have bigger problems, like the possible bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare. The President doesn’t have time to tackle those; he’s too busy visiting colleges to woo student voters, with taxpayer money.

In the Netherlands – the Dutch government coalition collapsed on Monday – after lawmakers failed to agree upon a series of austerity measures. And in Ireland – the nation’s largest trade unions are pressuring the government to vote against more austerity measures being pushed by Germany.



Our Constitution tries to balance powers between three branches of government. But when the President acts bull-headed, our whole system of democracy suffers.

Austerity measures in several European nations from Greece to Spain to the U.K. have crippled economies and mobilized working people into the streets.

Federal subsidies for loans and grants are just pushing college costs higher and higher. Just like the pay for college professors and administrators.