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President Obama goes about saying that he is still considered the "Underdog", but has a good chance of getting re-elected. He wants to stabilize our economy even more, but believes that the unemployment rate is still too high.

This article is about whether or not people should be able to carry a gun. The number of states allowing the "right to carry" law has gone from 8 to 31 since 1985. With more relaxed gun laws in right to carry states, murders dropped and average of 8%. In states that don't have the right to carry law murders and rapes increased.

This acticle is about exactly what the title says it is. The fact that legislators want to put extra taxs on things like fast food and extra large pants just because some oth the American people decide that they want to eat what they want is not right.

This article is about the right of the individual to be obese and how some feel it is necessary to tax the obese at a higher rate just for being obese. A clear personal freedom.

We all know that cell phone use while driving creates distractions. Are we aware of what the costs are due to the accidents created by this distraction? Once you read this information my bet is that many cell phone use behaviors will change.

This site discusses certain facts concerning In Vitro Fertilization. This site also provides an overview of the process as well as the cost and risks involved in the procedure

This article was written about the risks concerning cohabitation. There are more and more families living in cohabitation today. This article was written to determine if there is in fact a higher divorce rate among couples that live together before marriage and among couples that get married right away.

This site is talking about how certain states are trying to pass a dog discrimination law so that all dogs are treated equal and treated like humans.

If parental consent for contraceptives is mandatory then unsafe sex rates among minors will increase. Unsafe sex can lead to STD's and teen pregnancy. Minors want to have control over their personal health.

This web article talks about issues regarding the second amendment of the US constitution, the right to bear arms. The author talks about how the gun debate has become a hot button topic of argument in the political elections. This makes sense with the growing rate of gun related murders in the past few years. It also references a recent lift on gun bans in Chicago, IL.

Gun control and gun rights has always been a very popular topic, specifically when it comes to elections. Recently there have been two court cases to reach the highest court in the US, one of which was considered to be a landmark case. However, neither case established what laws could be put in place without infringing upon our second amendment rights.

Author D B Kopel argues that gun control in countries like Great Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and Jamaica is not the reason for their low crime rate. In fact he states that their gun control law is the cause for more burglaries and that gun registration has been proven in these countries to be valueless in solving or preventing crimes.

More Restrictive Gun Laws Arguments in favor of more restrictive gun laws are High rate of gun-related violence and death Second Amendment does not provide for individual gun rights

Shootings by police per month in 2016 Shootings by police per month in 2015 Shooting deaths per million residents, by state So far this year, there have been shootings per million people nationwide. The highest state rates fall in the South and West. Locations of the shootings Each marks the location of a deadly shooting.

I think that it is great that people are looking at both shootings made by not only regular people yet also people that are shot by the police. I think it is an interesting statistic to look at.

It is good to get the stats on the number of people killed by the police and other individuals. That way, no harsh bias can be argued.