My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.