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from Linda McClain Just when liberals had begun to appreciate the virtues of federalism in the efforts to secure the right to same-sex marriage in states where the courts, legislatures and voters are most hospitable to it, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Small business owners comment on the tax bill, stating that they are roughly 1 million of the people that will feel the tax increase.

On March 5, 2002, Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, was interviewed about Enron by Atsushi Nakayama, a reporter for the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.

Unemployment is at 22.8% for 18 and 19 year olds, 12.4% for 20 to 24 year olds, and 8.1% for 25 to 34 year olds. Although, unemployment is not as bad as it was before. Still most of the teenagers are the ones who are jobless.

The article goes over many of the issues that parents, teachers, and children are having with common core. Parents are noticing children having an increased stressed level which they attribute to common core. In the authors opinion, teachers are required to follow a script, for fear of job loss. Some programs have also been cut from school like PE and Music.

No six year old or any child should be stressed out about school until at least high school. The core is defiantly not a good thing to have for any education.

the fact that schools have to cut programs just to support this "teaching style/ criteria" is insane. Music and gym and various other activities are ways for kids to get out of the cultural norm of academia and express themselves. I cant even imagine what my school would of been like without those things.

Technology has come very far, it makes life much easier. People want life to be easier, but we loose sight of the meaning in our lives. It is when things are difficult that we find the things worth living for. This article talks about the 5 ways technology has effected us negatively. Storage is no longer an issue, we save almost everything, and pirating has greatly increased. People no longer carry cash, it is easier to loose sight of what is spent when everything is paid for on a card. Cars are now beginning to do the driving for us. movies are being developed to the point where it is like we are actually in the film and we stop connecting with the actors themselves. Google glasses are meant to replace cellphones but they are majorly unsafe. with all of this technology it is hard to see where we will be in the future.

Growth and decline of illegal immigration over the past years. Here shown are some statistics on things like, percentage of k-12 students whose parents are illegal immigrants, what percentage of immigrants are Mexican, and how the population levels differ with each passing year. This article also gives charts to help better understand the curve of illegal immigration in the U.S.

With so many computer applications out there and data available at the touch of a screen, you may not realize all the potential dangers of social media facing your children. Cyber expert Tyler Cohen Wood, a public speaker and the author of " Catching the Catfishers," explains, "Children now have an entire life history, down to the pregnancy announcement before they were born, on social media."

The article contains a ton of information regarding euthanasia as stated. The organization is educational and research based so it contains a lot of information and news articles as well as a 15 minute video that interviews 5 different people on the topic.

In this article, the author is explaining how marijuana has been used in the past for many medical uses and how it is starting to be known to help those with medical needs.

This short article is an update showing that 2.5 million more young adults have health care because of the Affordable Care Act that took effect in September 2010. These numbers will just keep increasing because these young adults can stay on their parents health care plan until they are 26, then afterwards can't be denied.

The whole purpose of this website is to inform people of each requirement that is needed for a young person to receive the benefits of the DREAM act. Some of these requirements include being in the United States for at least 5 years without leaving. This bill does not guarantee them citizenship right away but what it does is it lets them stay in the United States if they agree to either join the U.S military or attend college. Mostly all illegal immigrant students want to do both so it benefits them in many ways, since it is already in their minds.

Washington Post publishes recent polls on America's view point on the legalization of gay marriage. The poll is beginning to trend more positively than it was 5 years ago.

A bom tore into a government bus that was decorated. A deadly incedent killing 19 while 42 were injured. These people were identified as employees and civilians. It was later reported that this bloody insurgency was geared toward the government because of its alliance with the nited Stated

first sight of the verdict of Obama Care fresh out of the Supreme Court

Personal freedoms taken away in other states. Sometimes a nuesence, sometimes a really good idea. The boundaries are different no matter where you go.

The Mormon church has plans to build 31 new temples worldwide and restore 5. Some new temples will be built in Barranquilla, Colombia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; and Star Valley, Wyo

This article is about families surviving on unemployment. President Obama signed a bill restoring unemployment benefits to over 2.5 million jobless Americans. The national unemployment level dropped slightly. The Wall Street Journal tells Americans that they should have 3 months salary saved up.

As states across the country continued to ban gay marriages and civil unions, the census revealed some strange information: The number of same-sex partnerships jumped, even in the most conservative states. 646 thousand + gay coupled claimed they lived together in the 2010 census, an increase of 80% compared to 2000. more than 131,000 gay couples identified themselves as husbands or wives, which is a ratio of 1 in 5 couples.