For many people, strange as it may sound, it's still the week after the storm. They have not had a break to regroup, to rebuild resilience.

Their homes are gone, their sense of community is gone, their sense of tradition is gone.

The shots rang out. People ran into the brush, some under the plane. I ran under the plane along with congressman Ryan, trying to hide by a wheel and pretend I was dead.

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.