ASHLEY FURNIA

National
1: ABC News' David Wright, Andy Fies and Sunlen Miller Report: At a morning event in Pittsburgh, Sen. Obama directed a new line of attack at his Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in the fallout surrounding recent remarks where he cast small town voters as "bitter".
Without mention any candidate by name, Obama said "Around election time, the candidates they just can't do enough. They'll promise you anything, they’ll give you a long list of proposals. They'll even come around, with TV crews in tow and throw back a shot and a beer." (On Saturday, Clinton had a beer and did a shot of whiskey at Bronko's Restaurant in Indiana.)

OPINION
I think that he has a valid point to how candidates make promises for people to vote for them. Yet he is kinda beign hypocritical because he has done the same things throughout the election. Just because your doing it throughout it doesn't mean your not doing it.

2: April 15th is Tax Day which means it's as good a day as any to chart the distance John McCain has traveled on taxes.
Back in 2001, McCain voted against President Bush's $1.35 trillion 10-year tax cut, saying, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."
Two years later, McCain voted against further Bush tax cuts, saying the costs of the Iraq war were not yet known.

OPINION
I think that the tax cut is kinda dumb but yet it has a point to it completely. He needs to stick to his word when he said that two years ago. If he changes his mind now than it would most likely be held against him. People need to just deal with the fact that the law for that may change.

3: A former nanny for Rob Lowe claims the actor sexually abused her for years but she continued to work for him and his wife because she loved their two sons and needed the job.
In legal papers filed in Santa Barbara, Jessica Gibson says Lowe touched her inappropriately several times between September 2005 and January 2008.
Gibson worked for Rob and Sheryl Lowe on and off for seven years before quitting on Feb. 24.

OPNION
I think that the lady is just trying to get publisity kinda cause he's famous so why would you have not said anything earlier? He is a man who loves his family and cares why would he take that at risk just to have some fun here and there. It's wrong and she honestly just wants money.

4: Despite the old adage about sticks and stones, the mother of New York City middle school student Maria Herrera told a local newspaper that words really did hurt her daughter, who apparently committed suicide by hanging herself last week.
Herrera was the latest tragic victim of bullying, according to her mother, who told The New York Post that she found the 12-year-old hanging dead in a closer from a cloth belt on April 7.
Mercedes Herrera told the The Post that students constantly teased her daughter and even went as far as cutting her hair.

OPINION
I think that is so sad that a little girl that is 12 has to kill herself because of bullying. I mean they took it way to far when they cut her hair. I want bullying somehow to be illegal but i don't know how they would classify that as bullying. It's wrong and teachers need to take watch for it and actually do something about right away.