Placing aside reproductive rights and similar issues which, obviously, only directly affect females, the discussion of women and guns is quite a polarizing one. Almost automatically, women are placed in an opposing category in relations to firearms, their ownership, and the handling of them. Society doesn’t immediately associate women positively WITH firearms. Why? Firstly, female homicide victims are more often than not killed with a firearm. The Violence Policy Center’s study, “When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2010 Homicide Data,” states that when the murder weapon was known, the majority were indeed guns. Along with that, the study also…
Less than a week after President Barack Obama won reelection with overwhelming support from African American and Hispanic voters, the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). The case, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, presents a constitutional challenge to Section 5 of the VRA, which dictates that states with a previous history of voter discrimination must obtain federal approval before making any changes to the way they hold elections. The provision currently affects 16 states, many of which are in the Deep South. President Lyndon Johnson originally passed…
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning one of the most closely watched cases of the Court’s current term. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, will not only decide the future of affirmative action in higher education, but it also touches on three fundamental American characteristics—race, opportunity, and achievement. Fisher v. University of Texas represents the first legal challenge to affirmative action the high court has confronted since 2003, when a majority led by former Justice O’Connor upheld the practice in the case, Grutter v. Bollinger. The current controversy began when the University of Texas…
Not even God is allowed in the Democratic Party anymore. The Democratic National Convention met last week and exuded with warm feelings and atheistic views as the crowd booed at the mention of God.Featured speakers included Former President Clinton, Sandra Fluke, First Lady Michelle Obama, Zack Wahls (author of the book My Two Moms) and President Obama himself. President Clinton gave the nomination speech to officially nominate Obama as the Democratic candidate for President. Skillfully, he downplayed Republicans while portraying himself as a proper tolerant liberal. “Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way…
It has come to my attention recently that the great majority of those who are boycotting Chick-Fil-A believe that popular fast food chain is anti-gay, because they recently made a public statement that they “are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business…” Leftists and much of the LGBT community immediately responded to this as a “homophobic” and “hateful” statement aimed directly at them. Facebook and the Twittersphere began to explode with pictures, memes, status updates, and blogs condemning Chick-Fil-A because they “fry their chicken sandwiches…
If you live in twenty-first century America, it’s complicated. Corruption is rife in our political system, marriage is no longer traditionally defined, and conservative values are being eroded. We face problems that were unimaginable a century ago and must determine what our response will be. Regardless of era or circumstance, there will always be a right and a wrong. Being on the right means seeing things the right way. When we see an elderly woman being assaulted by a ghetto-dressed thug, we ought to see a criminal robbing an old lady, not a member of the low-income class rightfully helping themselves to…
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