Inappropriate Action

The Del Rio, Texas school district has taken a new step against Mexican students who are coming across the border to attend school in the United States. While this policy is understandable, children illegally coming across the border every morning to go to school is against the law, their method of setting up "border bridges" to screen students is inappropriate, instead they should request proof of residence from the parents, because of the 195 students they blocked, 150 promptly proved residency, showing that they had in fact made a mistake.

The Trouble with Afghanistan

Today the Taliban released a statement proclaiming that they will pose no threat to Western countries, but will continue violence against occupying foriegn forces. This statement coincides with President Obama's decision making over whether or not to continue fighting in Afghanistan, and whether or not he should commit more troops to the conflict there. My opinion is that we should be wary, considering that the Taliban obviously wants us to remove our forces, and that now would be an optimal time to persuade the United States that we should, but their lack of desire to harm Western countries remains to be proven.

Putting off on the Dalai Lama

President Obama has decided not to meet with the Dalai Lama who will be in Washington this week, having arrived today. The decision to put off meeting with the Dalai Lama on this visit (although he has met with a President on all ten of his visits since 1991) is majorly influenced by China's anti-Tibet sentiments, and the United States current need to placate China.

Abstinence only leaves gaping holes in Education

After weeks of complaining about the price of health-care reform, Senate Republicans managed team and boost the budget for abstinence-only education. To me it seems like a waste of money to spend fifty million dollars teaching kids to just say no. Most of them have it down pretty well, and most kids who are saying NO to sex have had that two letter show stopper down for at least a decade. Studies have proven that these programs are not as successful as comprehensive sexual education and health classes, because chances are if a teenager wants to say no (which lets face it, most do not want to say no at all, but a very emphatic yes) they are capable of doing it without millions of dollars worth of tutorial, what would be justified was sex ed classes explaining consequences and safety with highschoolers, because many kids aren't recieving that information.

Majority yes, super heroes? No!

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Democratic 60 seat supermajority fails to succeed in many of their attempts, including health care reforms, which is ironic because they were thought to be "unstoppable"..But they did manage to get the finance comittee to put up fifty million dollars for abstinence only education.. Yay?
Basically they are the Majority yes, but a super steamrolling task force? No.

Iran Backs Down

Apparently Iran has backed down from its' nuclear confrontation with the west, conceding to admit inspectors to the recently announced nuclear plant and to give up some of its uranium to be processed abroad,this is good because it will complicate Iranian efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb. This crisis has broken the thirty year silence between Iran and the United States, which could be taken as a good first step on the road ahead of ou nations.

Less value for more money?

Seems like a raw deal right? Well that is what the California State University system is being forced to offer thanks to budget cuts. Although the CSU system is one of the,if not the cheapest set of four year institutions in the country, this set of cuts is unfortunate, because many programs will be cut or reduced, and class sizes will swell, while students will have to pay higher tuition.