Reports from the Aipac convention this week indicated that those advocating military action were getting the loudest cheers. I’d invite all those cheering to think about all the unintended and unanticipated consequences of the Iraq war or Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. That’s not a reason for paralysis. It’s a reason to heed Obama’s call to give diplomacy and biting sanctions a chance to work, while keeping the threat of force on the table.

Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small.

As your commander in chief, and on behalf of a grateful nation, I’m proud to finally say these two words: welcome home.

There’s one group that badly needs and deserves visas that no one seems to want to go to bat for. They are the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are already living here and helping make things work. If they had a deal — pay fines, learn English, get to the back of the immigration line and, meanwhile, get back to work — the economic benefits would be enormous. We don’t expect Mr. Smith to admit that. But we would like to hear a lot more from President Obama, and others, about why real immigration reform is so important for America.

Look: people are frustrated. And that frustration has expressed itself in a lot of different ways: it expressed itself in the Tea Party; it’s expressing itself in Occupy Wall Street. I do think what this signals is that people in leadership,whether it’s corporate leadership, leaders of the banks, leaders in Washington — everybody needs to understand that the American people feel like nobody’s looking out for them right now.

You know, traditionally, what held this country together was this notion that if you work hard, if you;re playing by the rules, if you’re responsible, if you’re looking out for your family, you’re showing up to work everyday and doing a good job — you got a chance to get ahead, you got a chance to succeed. And right now, it feels to people like the deck’s stacked against them and the folks in power don’t seem to be paying attention to that.

…We are working every single day to figure out how do we give people a fair shake, and how do we make sure that everybody’s doing their fair share. Then people won’t be occupying the streets because they’ll have a job and they’ll feel like they’re able to get ahead. And part of my job over the next year is to make sure that if they’re not seeing it out of Congress, then at minimum they’re seeing out of their President somebody’s who’s going to be fighting for them.

He’ll have hundreds of millions of dollars, the bully pulpit, Air Force One and high-profile supporters from Warren Buffet to Lady Gaga behind him. But President Obama’s chances of re-election could come down to a single strategic question: To what degree can the history of 2004 be repeated in 2012?

Today, the government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and a new and democratic Libya. For four decades, the Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. Basic human rights were denied, innocent civilians were detained, beaten and killed, Libya’s wealth was squandered. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back, and terror was used as a political weapon. Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. A new government is consolidating control over the country. One of the world’s longest serving dictators is no more.