American Rights
I just finished watching the movie “Waiting for Superman” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/). It is so damn sad and the fact that this is really going on makes me want to cry. What I learned from this is that everyone in this country needs to change their attitudes when it comes to education and to the teachers behind [...]
I recently commented on an online Newsweek article about the informants who have leaked government documents and I thought that I would expand upon myself even more here. The issue is whether or not these informants are heroes or villains. The problem with this issue is that the line here is so very blurry. On one [...]
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Recently the FDA announced plans to start a new anti-tobacco push with the goal of significantly reducing tobacco use. Part of that push is forcing a change to tobacco warning labels to include images of cancer patients, diseased teeth and lungs, and even corpses. This gruesome campaign comes after a law passed in June 2009 [...]
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In American society we have developed at very ugly subtext. An unwritten rule that uses someones race or ethnic background to determine what you do and don’t have the right to say. This can be a very frustrating situation for an adult, trying to navigate the minefield that is our culture. This delicate balance of giving unspoken rights based on race is even more difficult for children to fully grasp without accidentally finding themselves in a storm of anger directed at them because of their confusion and frustration at this state of things.
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Recently someone I know forwarded me a piece that was supposedly by the Wall Street Journal with the subject line of “WALL STREET JOURNAL SIZES UP OBAMA”. In this article, which I will paste in a block at the end of this post, we hear an endless string of lies and propaganda used to feed on the [...]
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Something rather horrible was just brought to my attention. It is the story about a 16 year old boy named Ashton Lundeby who was arrested in the middle of the night by a team of FBI and local law enforcement officers. Now an arrest of someone so young isn’t really news-worthy these days (shameful as [...]
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