I want to see you.
Know your voice.
Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms in not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

I appreciate the service of our men and women in uniform, but how does this man's service excuse his crimes? Why is his care of wounded soldiers and civilians relevant when he smuggles cigarettes into prison? If I was a civilian firefighter or paramedic, nurse or doctor, shouldn't I get similar consideration?

A video released last week by Keep America Safe, a group led by Elizabeth Cheney, takes aim at lawyers who have represented Guantánamo detainees and are now working in the Justice Department. It asks, “Who are these government officials? . . . Whose values do they share?”

Not enough has been made of the expletive-laced response from Mr Bunning in response to the plea to extend unemployment benefits. Given the economic evidence that unemployment benefits help the economy - by improving consumer spending - the GOP continues to fight them. Is this because they don't want the economy to improve, since it would help Obama and the Democrats?

These are worrying developments for the future of science education in our schools, and therefore for the future of science in this country. Politics and religious beliefs are being used to control education. Parents and politicians don't like what the facts say, and so they don't want their children exposed to the scientific basis for these findings.

Why is it acceptable to mislead the public? When politicians are afraid to approach the truth - to admit the real reasons behind their opposition to legislation - we end up with unbridgeable divisions and sectarianism. How can you counter someone's arguments when they don't present the ones that are driving their actions? The GOP doesn't want health insurance reform because it is pro-consumer. They can't say that, so they trot out other reasons.