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Bob Cesca, 05/02/12

Host of The Bob & Chez Show, Media Producer

Regarding the campaign commercial, yes -- more like that, please. It's an important distinction that's crying out to be defined: while the Republicans might be good at coming up with scary bumper sticker slogans, the Obama team can actually do the job.

David Einhorn, 05/03/12

President, Greenlight Capital, Inc.

I believe that stocks are depressed because there is a pervasive feeling that something awful is going to happen. What is this enormous tail-risk? It's the intersection of reckless fiscal policy with overindulgent "Jelly Donut" monetary policy.

Doug Bandow, 05/02/12

Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute

Ron Paul and Gary Johnson should run together for the Libertarian Party nominations for president and vice president, respectively. That wouldn't guarantee their selection. However, Paul-Johnson would be the strongest ticket the LP could offer. It would be the best alternative available to the Republicrats.

Arianna Huffington, 05/01/12

The Obama administration has every reason to celebrate the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing, as does the country. Less laudable is Obama's attack ad questioning whether Mitt Romney would have made the same call to go after the man behind the 9/11 attacks.

Leigh Steinberg, 05/02/12

Sports agent

I knew Junior Seau since the day in 1990 when he and his friends partied back stage after he was drafted. Now he is dead at only 43 years old.

Soraya Chemaly, 05/02/12

Feminist, Satirist and Media Critic

Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from a pregnancy-related complication. This isn't just a "third world" problem. The United States currently ranks 50th in the world for maternal health. It is safer to give birth in Bosnia or Kuwait than in California.

Elizabeth Kantor, 04/30/12

Author of The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After

Surely the most benighted pre-liberation '50-style womanhood couldn't be any more humiliating than the conditions that liberated modern women routinely tolerate today.

Cenk Uygur, 05/02/12

Host, 'The Young Turks'

For the love of God, stop doing "he said, she said" crap that doesn't actually deliver the news to anyone. Democrats said this and Republicans said that -- who cares? What is the reality?! Your job is supposed to be to bring us facts.

Russell Simmons, 05/02/12

Founder, GlobalGrind.com

Our democracy has been hijacked. The corporations and special interests pay our politicians to do their bidding instead of the people's. This legal bribery has to stop.

Cesar Millan, 05/02/12

Dog Whisperer and CEO of CesarsWay.com

Stray and abandoned dogs are reproducing faster than we can find homes for them, and if spaying and neutering doesn't increase dramatically, we are going to see the problem get completely out of control.

Katie Halper, 05/02/12

Co-founder, Laughing Liberally

Alison DeNisco, 05/02/12

Journalist

The first time I read the now-famous sex letter she sent me, I was shocked and amused at her amazing openness and took it as a gesture of love. She truly wanted to help guide me in the only way she knew how.

Michelangelo Signorile, 05/02/12

Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices; SiriusXM radio host

Why is Richard Grenell's resignation a win? Because Grenell was being used for cover by a candidate with abhorrently anti--gay positions, a man who has promised to "propose and promote" a federal marriage amendment if elected president.

Katrina Lantos Swett, 05/02/12

President and CEO, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice

Chen Guangcheng's heroism is profound, his developing circumstances are distressing, and unfortunately for U.S.-China relations, the timing of all of this is undeniably inconvenient. But in the end, America cannot escape our moral responsibility to help this brave "barefoot lawyer."

Elaine Hall, 04/30/12

Author, Advocate, Mother of a teen with autism

My first marriage was in trouble long before we adopted our 23-month-old son, Neal, from a Russian orphanage. That Neal was diagnosed with autism shortly before his 3rd birthday, only put Miracle-Gro on an already fragile family system.

Dean Baker, 05/02/12

Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'

It's standard practice during the election campaign for presidential candidates to publish an autobiographical account of their rise to stardom or their philosophy of life and politics. It seems that Mitt Romney has outsourced this task to Ed Conrad, one of his former partners at Bain Capital.

Steven Strauss, 05/02/12

Advanced Leadership Fellow, Harvard University

We may yet need to intervene militarily in Syria, because of our strategic interests or to prevent genocide. But for the sakes of the American and Syrian people, military intervention should be our last resort -- we should learn the lessons of Iraq.

Michael Brooks, 05/01/12

Science Columnist

Sometimes doing something stupid or undignified is the only way to make the discovery or breakthrough you have been reaching towards. Sure, you might break a taboo or two, and you'll almost certainly break the rules, but since when did playing safe win anyone a Nobel Prize?

Dennis A. Henigan, 05/02/12

Vice President, Brady Campaign; Author, 'Lethal Logic'

In a real sense, Trayvon Martin's death at the hands of George Zimmerman exposes the mythology of the NRA's core narrative about guns and self-defense.

Ann Brenoff, 05/02/12

Senior Writer, The Huffington Post

Weight slips on with great ease when you are middle aged and getting it off requires a whole new arsenal of willpower weaponry. I've approached dieting as an all-or-nothing mandate: Once I fall off the wagon, it's just too hard for me to crawl my way back on -- especially now that I'm post-60.

The Los Angeles Public Library, 05/02/12

Richard N. Haass, 05/02/12

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Past sacrifice is a poor justification for continued sacrifice unless it is warranted. The truth is that while the United Sates still has interests in Afghanistan, none of them, other than opposing al-Qaeda, rise to the level of vital.

David Edmund Moody, 05/02/12

Science and math teacher; author, 'The Unconditioned Mind: J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School'

My friend Marilyn recently adopted a beautiful cat, all white, with deep blue eyes. The cat loves to gaze at herself in the floor-length mirrors on Marilyn's closet doors. What does she see? Is she admiring her own beauty? Or is she fascinated by the sight of what she thinks is another cat?

Brandon L. Garrett, 05/02/12

Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law, University of Virginia

Corporations can be prosecuted as criminals and every year some get convicted of crimes. However, over the past decade the government has not stepped up corporate crime enforcement. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary.