The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.