I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

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

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

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

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" !

The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.