Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Pennsylvania PrimaRies
Clinton had 50 percent and Obama’s 44 percent, according to the Quinnipiac University poll out Tuesday. The numbers remain unchanged from last week, before the uproar over Obama’s remark that people in small towns in Pennsylvania cling to guns and religion to vent their frustration over the economy and Washington’s false promises. According to the poll, support for Obama among the state’s black voters up to 86 percent, compared with 75 percent a week ago, while Clinton maintained her advantage among whites, 57 percent to Obama’s 37 percent. The poll of 2,103 likely Democratic voters in Pennsylvania had a margin of error of 2.1 percent.
Opinion
It seems that this is getting very intense and Barak and Hillary are doing everything possible in order to win the elections and become president. Well we can't really know who really wants to make a difference and who just wants to become president just to do whatever he or she wants I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I think that this has become very intense simply because it is the first year that a woman and an african american have run for president.

national
Students want chance to defend themselves
Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, has become a leading advocate for college students to carry weapons on campus. He's an organizer for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. F`itcraft calmly explained he is licensed to carry a weapon in Ohio. He wants to carry his gun on campus to defend himself from potential killers, but by law he can't. Utah is the only state to allow weapons at all public universities. Colorado allows students at universities to carry weapons, except the main university campus in Boulder. In Virginia, Blue Ridge Community College allows students with a proper concealed-weapons permit to be armed.
Opinion
I think that carrying guns in schools are a bad idea. Simply because we don't know who is carrying it to defend themselves or to kill other people. This will simply bring more problems to universities and will bring more killing. I think that having securities and cameras that will be fine.

National
Rape a child, pay with your life, Louisiana argues
For the first time in 44 years, a state is preparing to execute a man for a felony other than murder. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether Louisiana can use capital punishment in child rape cases. The constitutional question before the justices is whether the death penalty for violent crimes other than homicide constitutes "cruel and unusual" punishment. Kennedy was sentenced to die in 2003 for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter in her bed. The crime occurred in Harvey, across the big river from New Orleans. It caused severe emotional trauma,and internal injuries and bleeding to the child, requiring extensive surgery.
Opinion
Well I agree with the state. I think that this man should die. Putting him in prison is not enough punishment for this man. He did this crime in 2003, 5 years ago, i dont know why he is still alive. He should be dead already. This child was raped and she deserves some justice.

International
Iraqi militias use food as recruiting tool, report says
A report says the United States, the government of Iraq and the international community aren't doing enough to address the daily problems faced by the 2.7 million internally displaced Iraqis, who have fled homes in war-torn regions to other places in Iraq. These people are unemployed in their new locations and many times unable to access food and health care. The report slams the government of Iraq as being "unwilling" and "unable" to address such humanitarian issues "lacking both the capacity and the political will to use its important resources to address humanitarian needs."
Opinion
I think that the government of Iraq should not just be depending on the US to do everything for them because the US has its own problems that it has to fix. It is the Iraqi government's job to provide jobs for these people and provide shelter for them. The US has many problems and the gov't must work on that. But everything can't always be blamed on the government.