Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.

[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.