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Rachel Cottone-Dungan

House Republicans open two-front war on ObamaCare - 0 views

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    House Republicans are poised to open a two-front war on ObamaCare, pushing for a vote this weekend on a bill that would delay the health care law in exchange for raising the debt ceiling -- a week after handing the Senate a separate bill that would defund the law.
Kayla Beck

Teen who killed baby sentenced to 90 days - 5 views

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    Admitting he killed his child should not lesson his sentence, nor get him off the hook for anything. He should serve just as long of a punishment as someone would get for manslaughter.
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    I agree with Kayla. Admitting to the murder does not change the fact that the little girl is dead.. So what, if I get mad at my baby sister, throw her down the stairs, and she dies, as long as its my first murder and I admit to it I wont get in that much trouble? Ridiculous.
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    This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read. Why did he get so little punishment for killing someone? No matter how old the victim is, or how unlikely the person is to commit this crime again, doesn't make the crime any less bad than it was. This man should have gotten much worse. The fact that he got away with this, with only a few punishments, sickens me.
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    90 days isn't a long enough punishment for killing a baby, even if it was an accident.
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    He should be sentenced for longer or even for life. If I went out and killed someone they wouldn't let me free just because "I was scared to tell someone so I lied" and "It was an accident" Just because he admitted to murdering her that doesn't mean they should take away from the punishment.
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    I agree with everyone. If you kill someone, no matter what your age is you should be punished for a lot longer than 90 days.
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    Admitting to his faults shouldn't of shortened his sentence. He had killed his kid, 90 days in prison is nothing to what he should have really gotten.
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    19 or not, he should have much more than 90 days. They are basically saying, that even if a 35 year old man killed his child, that its ok because the guy does not have a criminal background.... That is not how things should be.
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    I am in shock! He killed his daughter and got 90 days! I know people that did little crimes compared to that and got 15 years in prison! I cannot believe it. Who ever was the judge is literally crazy! They need to go back and put him on trial again, and sentence him for life!
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    He should be put in jail no matter what his criminal record is. He murdered someone and when he said he forcefully put her to bed then obviously he was intending to hurt her. That doesn't exactly sound like an accident.
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    this is so unreal how stupied it is 90 days really!!! i could go kill someone and get life right now it dosent matter how old u are if you kill someone u should get the full punishment the law will leet u get
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    90 days is hardly a sentence, just because they think he isn't going to do it again doesn't mean he should get any less then an average person would get.
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    You kill a child you should be sent away for a long time. Do the crime do the time.
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    who would kill a innocent child ,like really that messed up!!!
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    WOW when and/or if someone were to kill an infant they should get more than 90 days. I completely disagree with this sentencing.
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    He should get longer than 90 days. Who kills a child
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    This is a cruel world ,why in the world do people have to kill others especially little ones?!
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    If your having problems put the baby in a safe place don't leave the house but just go to another room and cool down for a little bit.
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    I understand but I don't. It was not on purpose, when we are angry our better judgement is clouded. I believe he could be forgiven and all, that's a really short sentence either way. Perhaps the family requested his sentence to be shorter to support the mother. ... I don't know. This
Bryan Pregon

Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition | WashingtonExa... - 0 views

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    "President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad."
Bryan Pregon

School bullying's chilling new front - CNN.com - 2 views

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    "(CNN) -- Can cruel words really kill? The answer, unfortunately, is yes. "
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    It really annoys me that school's say zero tolerance, but most teachers laugh at the nasty comments kids make, or totally ignore them altogether. it's revolting
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    why do people feel like they are better than everyone else because they aren't,it's said how people will committ suicide over cruel words.
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    This kind of thing bothers me. Bullying isn't right, and when people hurt themselves because of it makes it worse. No one should ever have to feel like this. Bullies are horrible, they think it makes them look cool but in reality they look stupid and pathetic. What if someone bullied them ? They wouldn't like it , they would feel the same as the other person they bullied.
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    To be honest, I see that many people at our own school don't take much or any effort to put an end to bullying. Fights are often being encouraged instead of someone trying to stop it, and it's not hard to come across a post that is negatively directed at another student here. People need to start realizing the impact words and actions make, whether it's verbal or over a text.
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    No one should ever feel like suicide is there way out. Though bullying is so wrong in many ways how will the bullies be charged? These kind of things are tricky to go about because of people exercising their "freedom to speak." Something has to be done soon before any more lives are taken.
Cara Ireland

5-year-old Kentucky boy fatally shoots 2-year-old sister - 3 views

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    (CNN) -- A Kentucky mother stepped outside of her home just for a few minutes, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old son to accidentally shoot his 2-year-old sister with the .22-caliber rifle he got for his birthday, state officials said.
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    Im stuck on why the 5 year old got a gun and was able to get to it easily
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    why would you even have guns in your house to where a little kid could be able to get a hold of the gun and shoot his little sister.
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    The mother should be the one being punished for this accident.
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    Who leaves a gun out in the direct access of children?
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    I agree that this was an accident but the article also says the 5 year old boy was playing with it. 5 year old's are smart enough to know/ be taught not to play with guns. They obviously didn't know enough to keep a gun out of a 5 year old's reach.
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    why whould a gun be out any way let alone in reach of a child....
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    If you give a 5 year old child a gun for his birthday and leave it in reach for him to get a hold of it, it is the parents fault that this happened.
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    Why would you give your 5-year old son a .22-caliber rifle for his birthday? That is asking for trouble. The mother should be blamed for the incident. You should never leave your kids unattended, not even for a minute, when they are that little. Let alone, never leave a child unattended when there is a gun in the house and it is loaded?!?!
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    I've had guns since a young age and I always knew not use them on people no excuse
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    Why does a 5 year old have a rifle in the first? I do agree with Victoria, that the mother should be punished.
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    what kind of person leaves a 5 year olds gun loaded
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    I think think it was an accident, but the mother should be held responsible for being the one who gave the little boy a gun. I don't think young kids should be allowed to have any kinds of weapons at a young age. I mean I know they may be old enough to understand that it's bad, but how many 5 year old kids do you know that will actually listen and do stuff theyre not supposed to. I think it's fine to own a gun if you want to, but not for kids and they need to be under lock and key.
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    if the gun had child safety on it why was it easy for it to go off? and why was it easy for the child to reach?
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    Its the mother's fault, I've had guns around my whole life, I was taught how to use them, and that I shouldn't touch them unless my parents were there. They shouldn't have had the gun out in the open. Multiple Mistakes.
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    I agree with Rachel. Guns should never be out in the open, whether or not there are kids in the house.
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    i just think its crazy that a 5 year old would get a .22 cal for his birthday
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    Who gives their kid a loaded gun or has one around where they could get to it.
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    This is crazy! Who would give a gun to a five year old for his birthday ! That is just bad parenting.
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    who in the world gives a five year old a .22 caliber for his birthday!?
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    Who would give there child a gun for their 5th birthday? Thats not ok
Bryan Pregon

Political Cartoon: Middle Class - 60 views

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    President Obama said yesterday that the United States faces "a make or break moment" for a middle class that is shrinking because of "gaping" income inequality. In the comments, please give your thoughts on what this cartoon is implying and if you agree/disagree.
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    For more information on Obama's speech you can check USA Today http://goo.gl/oTNj9 If you look at this page, you may want to check out the "Presidential Approval Tracker" ... seems like a pattern to me.
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    obama is a good man, and is trying to be a hero for the middle and lower class. If it wasnt for the republicans blocking every move democrats try to make and making our nation more inefficient than a classroom filled with apes, maybe by now our economy would actually be fixed, but no people cant come together for more than a week for the good of a whole country.
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    The cartoon seems to imply that the "middle class" people have more to lose than they could gain/ can hold on to. While the wealthy are continuing to prosper significantly.
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    I believe this gap is closing and most likely will work because theres enough people that want to close the "gap" and there will nolonger be a huge money gap anymore
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    The "fuzzy math" section of the article is interesting because the statistics happen to be true. However, incorporating more ideals aligned with Socialistic ideology may not be the worst thing that could happen to this country.
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    I believe that if we try to fix the "gap" in our country, the "gap" will increasingly become farther apart...
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    "The richer are get richer" I believe that taxing the people who get higher income wont solve anything, I think that everyone should be equal. If the government starts taxing the wealthy then many middle class wont try as hard to get a higher income because of the higher taxes they will have to pay.
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    I think the middle class are more likely to break than make.
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    When has any of Obama's plans actually worked? I think the middle class is in big trouble.
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    If we try to fix the "gap" of our country then the "gap" will continue to grow, if everyone came together for everything we would live in a perfect world, it wouldn't be fair if we had higher taxes for the rich, because some of them have worked hard for their money and it's not fair to tax them because of that.
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    I also feel that the rich should be paying higher taxes, and the poor should get a little bit lower taxes
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    I strongly disagree with Obama that the wealthy should get taxed more. What happened to "fair, open and honest?" It's not fair to those who succeed in life to have to pay more taxes for someone who failed or dropped out of high school.
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    the tax situation is a good point but instead of paying said amount we should pay a certain percentage of our wage. so everyone no matter how much they make will put forth the same "share" of their wage and everyone will be happy. i mean seriously, does that multi-millionare really need any more money? heck ill be happy with just one million.
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    I disagree with obama i feel everyone should be taxed the same why should the wealthy be punished for how succesful they are
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    I think that Obama is trying his best to help out his country, but he needs to make more effective decisions.
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    I agree with broxton, if taxes were based on a percentage of the income of a person, it would be fare and easy, no one could complain because you're only paying according to what you earn and not according to what is expected.
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    I think the cartoons implying that Obama uses the middle-class and everything he's "going" to do for them as a bridge to stay president and win America over, when in fact he's making matters worse for the group he is supposedly "helping".
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    if you in the middle class lower class or higher class you have to pay you taxes and we should all be taxed equaly
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    I think that he is trying but he should make some diff. decision.
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    i have to agree with broxton it makes sence to have a precent of ur wages be taken out. so some one working a part time job is paying a little bit and a person like warren buffet is paying alot abit but the wealthy well always find a way to wigil there way out of paying. always hav always will.
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    I agree with Brock. I think there should be a percentage coming out of our income because it wouldn't be fair if we tax the rich more and the poor less just because they are more successful. Most people were raised differently and they have had more (or less) connections to get them to where they are now. It doesn't seem fair at all.
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    I agree with what is being said on most of these comments.I do not believe the rich should have to pay higher taxes because they worked hard to get were they are now and just because we have a gap in our income does not mean that they have to pay for it.
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    Our middle class is beginning to diminish because we are either rich or we are poor. In the role of gender, men have more opportunities to have more pay. Taxes are different based on pay, the more you make the more they take.
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    A flat tax percentage may seem to favor the wealthy, but it's the only fair way to do things. Everyone is supposed to be equal in this country.
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    I agree with Ziada. We are getting to the point were it's either the poor or the rich. The middle-class is starting to disappear.
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    The middle class is all but gone. We don't even see them any different than that of the lower class. we are rich or we are poor, never in the middle.everyone thinks that the other makes to much or not enough
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    I feel like Obama just talks about the stuff that people want to hear, yet he does nothing actually about the problems. Who cares if you can talk for almost an hour about a situation but don't do anything about it. Like many people said I don't believe people who are more successful should suffer to pay more taxes than people who do not have as much money because they did not prosper as much as someone who does work harder.
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    I Also agree with ziada ,This is getting out of hand , what will happen if we break ? were do us, our society in the middle class go ?
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    "A flat tax percentage may seem to favor the wealthy, but it's the only fair way to do things. Everyone is supposed to be equal in this country." I don"t think so, After all can you really say it's fair for someone with more means then responsibilities to pay a much lower overall percentage then someone with more responsibilities then means? I think that there is no way to make this kind of thing 100% fair but it is fairer to look at this kind of thing as percentages then as flat numbers.
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    The rich shouldnt have to pay more because of their success they took their opportunities and made the best of them. of course many might have had the same opportunities but just didnt take them. or some simply didnt have the opportunity at all. the middle class will have a few struggles here and there, but in the end i think everything will be alright.maybe.i hope.
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    This seems like a moment in American history where choices have to be made that everyone may not agree on. People are forced to use their money on others even if they don't want to. I hate the idea of being forced to use my money, but, the idea that people would rather the poor die and move out of the way is worse. No matter what, the choices are really difficult and can harm more than help. In the future we'll all look back on the results and hope they were for the better.
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    Rising taxes for the rich in unjust and rising taxes for everyone is just dumb. They spend our tax money on useless things like art work instead of helping the very thing that keeps this country going... The people.
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    I don't think that taxing the wealthy will really solve anything. The money won't go to the middle class, it will be tax money. Which goes to the state, which gets spent on different items. Tax money isn't just transferred to the pockets of the people of the lower and middle class.
Bryan Pregon

BBC News - Syria crisis: Barack Obama calls off Congress vote - 1 views

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    "US President Barack Obama has postponed a congressional vote on military action in Syria, vowing to pursue diplomacy to remove the regime's chemical weapons."
Sara Dunn

Obama announces new gun control measures, targets military surplus imports - 2 views

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    Obama on gun control
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    We don't need more gun control the original laws are fine.
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    Enough with Gun control we don't need it.
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    It's an American right for citizens to have guns.
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    I'm not sure how I feel. We should be allowed rto have a gun, liscences are pretty smart
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    gun control won't help anyone honestly. i don't see why he's trying to ban guns so hard. criminals are just gonna stop shooting people because of gun control? A+ thinking.
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    gun control is not gonna keep illegal guns of the streets.
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    Gangsters and Hoodlums will still use guns to kill, shoot, rob people i really don't think its going to help.
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    After reading the article, I don't think these two rules were meant to stop a lot of gun crimes. On the issue of gun violence, I would say that we still need tight regulations of guns. I am less concerned with new gun control laws, and more interested to know how our society can keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals and the mentally ill.
Bryan Pregon

reddit post: Why does the president seem so personally interested in action against Syria? - 4 views

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    "Why does the president seem so personally interested in action against Syria?"
Bryan Pregon

'Under God' part of Pledge of Allegiance under review in Massachusetts - CNN.com - 0 views

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    "'Under God' part of Pledge of Allegiance under review in Massachusetts"
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    Well then, If it started that way, why would we change it? That's like changing McDonald's from fast food to a fancy italian resturant
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    It is interesting that the pledge has been changed before... the "under God" part wasnt added until the 1950's http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm
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    I don't think its discrimination. Because it's saying that God doesn't love gay people but that's quite opposite. Well that's what I believe anyway. I think we should leave the pledge the way it is because of tradition.
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    america isn't all forced religion country so i can see why under god could upset people but it isn't that big of a deal
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    It shouldn't matter that is not "forcing a religion" on to someone. Kids don't really think about the meaning of words that they repeat everyday.
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    i think its unnecessary to change it because its a free counrty you dont even have to say the pledge, also it doesnt say a certain god, just gid so that can mean any god you believe in
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    Why?!! Neext thing you know they will wanna take the In God we trust off the money!!
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    They have actually spoken on that in the past
michaelduquette

Free condoms for your 12-year-old? California health council can help - 3 views

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    (CNN) -- With just a few clicks of a mouse, kids as young as 12 can have free condoms delivered to their doors in California. And that idea is garnering mixed reactions from Californians.
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    Better be safe than sorry.
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    i think that 12 year olds should not be able to buy condoms there should be a certain age limit.
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    i think you should be able to get condoms no matter how old you are. if you are haveing sex you should be safe.
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    Safe sex is the best way to go. If your thinking about sex at any age, you should make sure you have condoms no mater what.
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    Perhaps parents, guardians/ and or teachers should encourage kids not to make those choices until they are old enough to handle the consequences (aka, wait until their married. You wont have to deal with pregnancies or emotional stress)
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    No one that young needs to engage in sex but if they do they need protection and not have many partners it seems to me that people are having to many partners.
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    I dont think anyone that young needs to have sex they should be getting a free pack of craynos not condoms
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    i dont think they should be able to but yes i do belive that they do need to learn about pertection ... but no they dont need them
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    I agree with Hannah, they should not be getting condoms at 12 that is way too young to even be thinking about doing that kind of stuff. But I also agree with Spencer, they should be taught about protection that way when the time comes MANY years later, they know what the right thing to do is.
Megan Funkhauser

Kansas teen won't apologize to governor's office for Twitter post - CNN.com - 26 views

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    updated 1:49 AM EST, Mon November 28, 2011 (CNN) -- A high school senior, who faces a Monday morning deadline to apologize to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for a disparaging tweet, has said she will not write the apology letter.
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    Good story
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    I wouldn't apologize either, i think she's doing the right thing.
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    Personally, I don't think he should be forced to apologize. Yes, his comments were hurtful, but as a public political figure you have to expect these kinds of negative comments. Plus, like the last line of the article said "the governor of Kansas has more important thing to worry about."
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    very intristing
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    It wasn't meant for anybody but her friends, it was simply an accident. They shouldn't be so worried about it but she is right about freedom of speech. I wonder what's going to be done about it.
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    I think she should at least apologize. Although free speech is an unalienable right, everyone should still share opinions in a respectful manner.
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    Interesting story.
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    I like the story, its very interesting that the governor took the twitter post from the teenager to heart and requires an apology letter to be productive and move on, he should be focused on more important things.
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    Not gonna lie, I've seen far worse things on Twitter.
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    I find this story very interesting, I do agree that we have freedom of speech. However lying is not in our Constitution. There are multiple worse things that are posted on Facebook, and Twitter.
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    When it takes a apology letter is needed to work with the gov then they need some one new to take that office. If it was his own kid then it is understandable. but when he does not know them then they shouldn't bother him as much as they have. and it is true that twitter holds many things that are far worse that deal with the gov't.
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    Lots of comments on this story... looks like the Governor ended up making the apology... here is a followup article http://goo.gl/0IlO1
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    The girl was at no fault, even though she did not actually do the things she said in the tweet. Hundreds of millions of posts about politicians are posted every. If all of the politicians took the things said to heart the government would be in ever deeper trouble than they are now.
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    She should be able to say what she wants. Freedom of speech
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    yeah, she should have used her words more wisely, but freedom of speech is a very important law as long as it is not abused. I'm glad everything worked out, and the gov. corrected himself.
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    that girl was a meanie bo-beanie
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    She should have the freedom to voice her opinion however she wants
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    Teenagers these days have no respect for adults and Authority.
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    at least she was voicing her opinion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    she shouldn't even have to apologize for anything like freedom of expression so she has all right to post what ever she wants on twitter isn't that what it was made for to post things your thinking of or your opinion on something
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