HEROS AND VILLAINS
Hero: Jack Kilby JACK KILBY: 1923-2005 / Nobel Prize winner's research sparked the digital revolution Invented the integrated circuit. Claims he was the lucky one to stumble on it first. Recognized the efforts of others when he won the Nobel Piece Prize. His accomplishment changed our world and he was humble about it. What a guy.

Hero: New York Representative Jerrold Nadler because he wants to make it possible for same-sex bi-national couples to remain in the United States. Heterosexual couples get to do this simply by marrying. Of course, gay people are not allowed to do that. There are many fraud marriages, be it knowingly, or be it unknown to the American spouse (now there is an ultimate betrayal), and don't think it doesn't happen! Nadler's legislation will fail because the homophobes won't allow it.

Hero(s) and villain(s): United States House of Representatives. Flag burning. Do we need an Amendment to the Constitution to ban burning the flag of the United States? It is pieced of cloth. It is symbolic. It is NOT the same as torching the White House or a museum or a church. The mere fact that it is a symbol of freedom protects the disrespectful who burn it as a statement - free speech is a freedom. Representatives who insist on this ridiculous amendment are just the ones who want to restrict freedoms (really, why aren't they into gun registration/prohibition?). They are villains. The heros are the representatives who continually speak out to defend freedom of speech and take the hits from the villains that they are somehow un-American because they don't support this amendment. The villains will insist that the heros are for flag burning when, in fact, they are against the restriction of the First Amendment.

Don't you just hate it when words get twisted?