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Nancy Lublin in this article talks about how youth younger than eighteen can work, drive, enlist or be tried as adults. In some parts of the world, younger teenagers already vote. Maybe the younger youth should be heard.

The Governors Highway Safety Association outline the laws about cell phone use while driving. Laws include both texting and talking on the cell phone. Sept. 2011

More and more people die because of texting and driving. The laws need to be strictly enforced. This article talks about how many states have the laws in effect.

Gun activist that feel guns should have aban against them have it alll wrong, according to a University Professor. The debate should be about controlling access to firearms, rather than eliminating them and using market forces to drive up the price of weapons on the black market.

This article follows all the changes to cell phone laws in the last 4 years. It was interesting to find that only school bus drivers were restrained from using cell phones while driving until very recently.

(CNN) - Mitt Romney continued to hammer President Barack Obama over the president's controversial remark about business owners, arguing Wednesday that the president's administration has been chipping away at economic freedoms. "It is free men and women that drive our economy. Freedom is what makes America work.

This article is based on school choice. To choose a school for your child based on your living location. How empowering the parent to choice would be more beneficial.

It is very important in the present day for children to get a good education and the child should not have to suffer a poor education because of where they live. If the parents can not afford to live in a neighborhood with the top performance schools they should still be able to send their child to a good school and even if it means the child has to take the bus or car pool.

Although many people live in districts that have the funding for an excellent staff that is required to create a good learning environment, there are some parents that do not have that luxury. Being at a good school is what ultimately gets students out of the 'poverty cycle' or not. If a student does live in a bad neighborhood and has the possibility of attending a better neighborhood even if it is a bus ride or drive away it should be up to them ultimately if they want to make that change and commute for the better learning environment.

Verizon on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

This would make a great topic for a research project.

They're the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America's official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn't name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn't correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights.

The random telephone survey of 1,000 American adults was conducted Jan. 20-22, 2006 by Synovate, an independent market research firm. The five First Amendment freedoms, and the percentage of those surveyed who were able to name them: One in five respondents said the First Amendment granted them the right to own and raise pets, as well as the right to drive.

A fact: Cellular phones do cause accidents. When you become distracted, your eyes leave the road your heading on. Bad habits can kill people.

If exotic pets are banned they will either be killed or spend the rest of their lives in a cage. Everyone that drives a car is risking themselves and the lives of their family three times more than someone who owns a large exotic pet.

The legal drinking age for the U.S. should be lowered if the situation is being supervised in certain environments. Many drink underage to "rebel" against society norms so lowering the age would not call for such rebellion. Binge drinking would not take place if environment is being supervised.

Should the legal drinking age in the US be lowered to 18? Articulates that young adults should be allowed to drink in a controlled environment.

I agree and don't think it is any different than teaching young adults how to have safe sex if they choose to have sex. If someone is going to choose to drink at 18, 19, or 20 or 40 for that matter they should be held responsibile for their actions at any age. Why do the laws say purport that a person is an adult at age 18, can drive at age 16, but can't drink until 21? I think it's hypocritical to say someone is an adult at age 18 BUT, you can't drink until your 21.

This article highlights the growing cost of a college degree. The author sheds light on the issues surrounding the cost of a college degree such as inflation and the need to take out loans in order to afford a bachelors degree.

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.

Virginia has banned driving with a license plate that depicts the Confederate flag - but some in the state are resisting. Around 1,600 Virginians with state-issued Confederate flag plates received a letter last month from the DMV saying they had until October 4 to swap them out for new ones that don't show the flag.