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I attend a small high school in the Bluegrass state. My loyalties lie with my family, my community, my state, and my country. In that order. I love blogging/writing which is why I joined this site. I am forever trying to expand my knowledge and learning and

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Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues With a huge federal deficit to consider, should taxes on the middle class be reduced?: 1 of 34
Yes. The problem has nothing to do with how much taxes are levied on our people, but how much spending our government does that is completely unconstitutional in the first place. We have a deficit, in other words we spend more money than we have. Giving our government more money won't fix that problem because they obviously s... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Gun Control: Does it really matter?: 5 of 38
"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"That my friends is stated in the second amendment to our Constitution, this as well as the the rest of the first ten amendments are known as the "Bill of Rights". Our Founding Fathers considered the right to own a gun a GOD GIVEN RIGHT. To allow our governm... More..
Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Assessing the theories of human rights: 2 of 12
All of man's rights are derived from one single right, the right to his own life. Every person has the right to their life, it belongs to nobody else. From this right we derive the right to personal property, the right of free speech, etc. However, there are serious misunderstandings of rights in our society today. People hav... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Europe Has European Union (EU) been good or bad for Europe?: 2 of 8
The huge system of slowly integrated collectivism that is the European Union(EU)has been extremely harmful to the nations of Europe and, in turn, the world.The European Union is an economic union between most of the countries in Europe. With an international currency, the Euro, and various other free trade arrangements to hel... More..
Politics, News & Issues > People in the News Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: In over her head?: 2 of 8
In case you are unaware House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Syria this week in order to communicate on foreign-relations policy with Syrian President Bashar Assad. She did this in defiance of President Bush's wishes and her Constitutional duties. And I discovered recently that she has indeed committed a felony against this... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?: 108 of 313
I have never really seen how this issue can be phrased as a "woman's right". I mean, sure it's in her body, but it's not her body, it's another human being. I don't even see how it can be an issue of church and state. The state's job is to protect each individual person from physical harm from other's. It has nothing to do wi... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Should the Electoral College be abolished?: 12 of 23
Abolishing the Electoral College system would completely destroy everything this country was created to stand for. Lately there has been an increase in favor for the abolition of the aforementioned system on claims that is does not truly represent our great American democracy. Well, these people don't seem to know their histo... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Feminism & Women's Rights Should US companies be required to provide equal pay to women and men?: 30 of 55
The notion that women on average get paid less than men is extremely misleading. Yes, it's true on average they do get paid less, but there's a reason for this. When people here these facts they simply assume it's because employers pay women less because they are women, that's just not true it most cases.In these statistics p... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology Is George W. Bush a true conservative?: 18 of 32
No he isn't a true conservative.First lets look at the dictionary meaning of "conserve", dictionary.com says "1. to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of."OK, well based on that does any of these things Bush has done fit the definition?- Build of a national debt and increase spending?- Move away from the Constitution and u... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Should the United States have universal health care?: 34 of 60
The mere idea of the Unites States having universal health care is both ridiculous and immoral. Ridiculous that anyone would think that government provided health care would actually improve the health care in this nation and immoral that anyone could think that the government has the right to take money from one human being ... More..