When a fellow human being needs our protection, we have a duty to help.

Solidarity created a public space for all of these discussions, while protecting us all against the party apparatus.

What is most disturbing about the economy these days is its volatility in other words, the inability of our institutions to protect us from extreme financial uncertainty.

And they were allowed to do so because of the absolute failure of oversight of the government that's supposed to be our government, protecting us.

But in the entire rest of government right now and for the last at least 30 years, there has been a culture of deregulation that is caused directly by the people who we need to be protected from, buying the government out from under us.

But what of the assumptions that we rarely question? Yes, our government s primary job is to protect us but people die all the time, often unfairly, and there are limits on how much protection we seek or even allow.

There's only one obvious conclusion to reach from this mountain of evidence our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit, and my poor parents were trying to protect us from the embarrassment, this humiliation of rejection by Santa, who was jolly but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

A majority considered them offensive, and therefore expected interracial couples to show what is demanded today from Muslims in Manhattan respect for other people s sensitivities. In a nation of laws, such as the US, it is disingenuous and unfair to grant legal protection to a right in this case the right to worship God as we see fit and then selectively ban its exercise de facto because a majority or minority takes offense.