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Individuals are finding another way to educate their children. As each state has an education law that requires children to but in school. With home education children have the ability to learn and embrace their interests.

In this article, the author talks about the public schooling system as a forced act on our society that actually makes the future of education worse for us. Instead of letting our children think for themselves, learn the trades they wish to learn, and force them to attend for a certain amount of time, we are taking away their personal freedoms of education. Many people are pushed to thinking that a set school rubric will help every child to get the education they need for their future, but according to the views of the author, they don't. The author's view is that society should be looking more into home schooling and trade schooling to help the United States grow to be more productive for the future. Every generation, school is seen more as a prison; molding our future to think as the way the government wants them to think. But if we were to give freedom to complete schooling outside of force, children will regain their excitement for learning and pursue to better our nation on their own free will.

An interesting article on the state of our education system and how the direction we have gone with it seems to be lacking. Lending itself to breaking the ideas that people have about how a child "must" learn, the article offers up that those ideas are not often the case.

Hunting allows individuals bring dinner to their table, helps keep the population at a reasonable number so the environment is not over ran. Hunting also bring s in a large profit for the wild land service.

Argues for a person's right to hunt animals. Uses several examples of how hunting generates revenue to keep national forests and protect nature.

This site shows that the majority of Americans support a ban on cell phone use while driving, even when the driver is using a hands-free cell phone. According to a poll released in 2010, proponents for such a law outnumber opponents by a margin of 63-34.

This article has 3 issues, the TSA, wikileaks and the drink Four Loko. First it talk about how american dont like the fact TSA is not fair with how they screen for bombs and such things but they want to be have a safe flight to go see reltives or a fun vactions. Then the government doesn't like that the website has taps on them when wikileaks reports on what they are doing but do not have a problem when it comes to tapping the americans phone calls. Lastly the state of New York banned the drink of Four Loko claiming that it is bad for americans but again wants to play big brother and tells us what is right or wrong. We as americans should decided what is good or not for our bodies.

This site talks about how the new Federal HIPAA law protects patients privacy regarding personal health information. Rules have been set as to who can view medical records without the patients approval. This includes health insurance companies, HMO's, and health care providers.

This NCSA report presents results from the 2009 NOPUS Controlled Intersection Study, which found that seat-belt use continued to be lower among 16- to 24-year-olds than other age groups.

This site is great because it supports both sides of the argument. For every pro there is a con going in the exact opposite direction on the same point.

The pros and cons of introducing a program to do so. We should have that right seeing are right is to "life".

Should all Americans have the right (be entitled) to health care? This website discusses the pros and cons. The US is one of the only developed nations that does not guarantee healthcare for its citizens.

Arizona solidified its reputation last year as one of the most liberal gun states in the nation after the Legislature passed a law allowing people to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Amongst that, requiring to be 21 to purchase a handgun, but only 18 to purchase a rifle.

Do you know the number of articles in the US Constitution? Can you identify the right outlined in the Fourth Amendment? Any idea which amendment abolished slavery? Most Americans can only guess at the answers. In fact, a paltry 6 percent understand the rights and freedoms found in the First Amendment, reports The National Constitution Center, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia.

Driven by current events, including lawsuits, grassroots movements, political campaigns and even conversations around dinner tables across the nation, we are deluged by hundreds of issues. From a multitude of sources and opinions we are able to come to our own conclusions regarding these issues.

It is absolutely horrible to hear about the fact that we are dealing with a hunger problem and yet there is tons of food wasted each year.

I think companies should do a better job of labeling expiration dates. Some products say 'use by...' but instead I think it would be a better idea to label food as do not use past this date. It would help diminish food waste nationally.

Privacy is mostly an illusion. A useful illusion, no question about it, one that allows us to live without being paralyzed by self-consciousness. The illusion of privacy gives us room to be fully human, sharing intimacies and risking mistakes. But all the while, the line between private and public space is as porous as tissue paper.

This page allows everyone to understand the meaning of religious freedom in America. It explains a range of subtopics including Constitutional rights in public as well as denying the right to vote on a specific religion. Each individual has their own right to believe in what they want, and it explains how the government can't interfere with that.

Getting an education isn't just about books and grades -- we're also learning how to participate fully in the life of this nation. (Because one day we are going to be in charge!) But in order to really participate, we need to know our rights -- otherwise we may lose them. (nmw) These are the rights that come with religious freedom and what it's all about.

Talks about what kind of gun laws there are currently in the U.S.. Statistics that show how many of the mass shooting there were by people who actually purchased the guns legally. This writer is biased against guns by talking about how many of armed victims who actually fight back.

This article defends internet surveillance, saying that it's not immune to every other type of modern surveillance. It makes the connection to telephones, saying that this same debate was had when that technology became more popular, people argued that they should be private as well. Ultimately, the author claims that security is simply more important than privacy.

As we all know, Planned Parenthood is at risk of losing funding due to an undercover act by a man named David Daleiden. As the on going investigation of Daleiden calmes that Planned Parenthood illegally selling fetal tissue, a Huston grand jury was cleared of any wrong doing, on the 23rd of November, 2015. What some or all may not know is that Planned Parenthood has filed a federal lawsuit stating that it was an act of "illegal secret recording and trespassing, mail fraud, and invasion of privacy". Although many may argue that Daleiden was only exercising our first Amendment right.

Texas becomes the 8th state to allow concealed weapons on college campuses. Other states allow universities and colleges to decide their own gun restrictions

This article focuses on the national security agency's borderline illegal activity with several phone company's including AT&T. This had been taking place as early as 2005, and wasn't made apparent to the American people until 2013.

Newly released documents confirm what critics have long suspected-that the National Security Agency, a component of the Defense Department, is engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of Americans' communications, including their telephone calls and emails.

Whistle Blower Edward Snowden was the one who shocked the nation. In regards to privacy of its fellow citizen.