Assisted Suicide

I am perplexed that assisted suicide is illegal in this country. I honestly don't understand it. First of all; if someone wants to take their own life, why does the government need to get involved? What gives them the right to tell someone they have to continue living? Second, these people are going to kill themselves regardless of whether the government gives them the okay.

Big Promise

Obama has recently promised that he will cut the national deficit in half by the end of this term. What a monstrous promise, especially since the nearly 100 dollar stimulus bill has just been passed. The deficit keeps growing as our government keeps spending. And somehow, Obama thinks he will be able to cut his inherited deficit in halve.

If he somehow accomplishes this, he will be gaurenteed a second term. If he makes no progress, he will surely lose. If it is somewhere in the middle, it will come down to more then the economy.

Geraldo At Large

Geraldo Rivera is a Fox News correspondent that hosts the show Geraldo At Large. Before seeing this show for the first time, I had a lot of respect for him. I have seen him countless times on Fox and every time I did, I thought he was the most level headed member of the Fox News team.

However, I just saw his show for the fisrt time tonight and was absoluetly disgusted. He was covering Haleigh Poutre recent kidnapping. Rather than it being an informative show, he used it let Haleigh's mother and her mother's family speculate, and I repeat speculate, about thier child's abduction and father's involvement. It is a soap opera. It is sick. Geraldo is letting these people slander on his show, and is even aiding them on. No claim they make is even attempted at being backed up. This is on a national show. I feel bad for Haleigh's father and I hope the nation sees this investigative show for what it is; a joke and a bad attempt at reality television.

Holder: "US a Nation of Cowards" on Race

I have to agree with him. It is not so much that we are a nation of racists, just that we are cowards when it comes to race. He described what he meant by saying; at the workplace, their is plenty of diversity, but when we go home, we tend to segregate ourselves.

I am a college student at UC Santa Cruz. What he described was UC Santa Cruz. Plenty of diversity. No signs of racism. However, after classes are done and it is the weekend, I find that different ethnic groups segregate themselves. Asians hang out with asian people, white people hang out with white people, etc etc. My experience tells me he is right.

Freedom of Speech

At Los Angeles Community College, a student was harassed by his professor for giving a speech supporting "traditional marriage". I want to make it clear that I am extremely opposed to the view that homosexual couples should not the right to get married. However, silencing this kid in a classroom setting is flat out intolerant. Of course others are going to have opposing views, but that does not mean this professor should not show the kid respect. If he wanted to challenge his speech, he should have challenged the speech. Making fun of the kid and not allowing him to finish is cowardly.

Fox, CNN, and MSNBC

Watching Fox news this morning was a waste of time. First I got to here gossip about Michelle Obama. Then I hear gossip about Joaquin Phoenix. I changed the channel to CNN and had similar results, went to MSNBC and had the same story.

Maybe it was a slow day in the news, maybe not. But it's time the media actually tried to inform our public. I know they have to be enticing to get viewers, but it shouldn't be at the cost of the viewer being ignorant. I'd like an update on what is happening in the Gaza strip. I'd like an update on what is happening in Darfur. I'd like an update on what the UN is doing in Rwanda. Enough about Michael Phelps. Get back to reporting the news.

Who Wants Obama to be Successful?

Watching the O'Reilly factor today, I was reminded of those who want our President to fail. 60% of O'Reilly's viewers want Obama to succeed, including O'Reilly. The other 40% of the O'Reilly audience want Obama, and his policies, to fail. This blows my mind.

Why would any American actually want our President to fail? I am really wondering how any decent person would wish this on so many people. The only answer that I come up with is; they want the policies to fail in order to say "I told you so". In order to show that the conservative way is the right way. They would wish upon our country to do worse than it has been the last eight years in order for their opposition and their policies to be proven wrong. The thing that came to my mind while watching the show was; how selfish. Where is the humility?