I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

I was born a poor black child.

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.