If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.