Ugandan’s New Death Penalty Bill

Can you imagine having a loved one or even yourself put on trial for being homosexual? For Ugandans this is a reality. Gay rights group estimate that 500,000 gay persons live in this area out of 31 million people in population, which their government says is an exaggeration.  The death penalty would... [Read more]

Destruction in Haiti

It is near 5 PM in the capital city of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.  The streets are crowed with people tired from a long day.  The last thing they need is a disaster and unfortunately, a disaster did occur: a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake.             This earthquake hit 15 miles out of... [Read more]

Worldwatch: The Use of Child Soldiers

            Imagine all your memories from an innocent childhood replaced with ones of a horrific war. Memories of holding baseballs and lollipops replaced with memories of holding AK-47s and hand grenades. Imagine remembering the sound of gunshots and battle cries instead of the sound of... [Read more]

Swine Flu: Overreaction or Cause for Concern?

              It happens to all of us. Sitting in class, nursing your sore throat and feeling sorry for yourself, you begin to realize: “I’m sick.” All week you’ve tried to convince yourself otherwise. It’s only a cough, you say, as you struggle through the cloud of fatigue and... [Read more]

Not a Good Week in Hollywood

             The last week of June was not a pleasant one to be a celebrity. The week was filled with misfortune in Hollywood from the dramatic split of Jon and Kate of the reality show Jon and Kate plus Eight, to the deaths of minor celebrities, television game show host Ed McMahon, actress... [Read more]

Modern Day Pirates

   On April 8th, 2009, Somali pirates attacked an American ship, the Maersk Alabama, almost four hundred miles off of the Somali coast.  The ships crew, which included twenty American citizens, did manage to escape with their ship, but their captain, Richard Phillips, remained as a hostage.  In response,... [Read more]

Same Sex Marriage Bans Lifted

As many have probably heard, the topic of some concern has been same-sex marriage.  Two states have had the ban lifted for a while: Massachusetts and Connecticut.  There was and is still controversy in California where it was permitted for six months before it was banned.   On April 3, 2009, the Iowa... [Read more]

Treasury Treason

While the majority of Americans were worrying about the bailout, and as Congress debated it, the U.S. Treasury Department, quietly, with a stroke of a pen, gutted a key statute of the tax code that will save businesses billions of dollars a year. The statute, enacted by Congress in 1986, prevented businesses... [Read more]