The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.

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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.