The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans