The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) are always quite the spectacle. This year however the show was simply horrifying with its only worthy moments being the Michael Jackson tribute, Pink's trapeze performance and Beyonce giving Taylor Swift the moment she deserved.
John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Community service has always been stressed in this country. It is still alive, but it is stressed for a far different and less honest reason. When applying for a job or for admission to a college, community service is a great addition to an application.
The most clichéd ethics argument, capital punishment, is back in the news. Except this time it involves Texas. Okay, it usually involves Texas, but this time Texas might need to apologize for the execution. Last month Craig Beyler, a nationally renowned arson expert, completed a report for the Texas Forensic Science Commission concluding that a 1991 fire, which killed Todd Willingham's three young daughters was not arson.
This past summer Nick George, a senior at California's Pomona College, was getting ready to return to school. Nick, a Montgomery County resident here in Pennsylvania, was traveling through Philadelphia's international airport, but his day turned out to be much less routine than expected.
Who are Sandra Cantu, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Clay Moore, and Jessica Lunsford? They are the four youngsters have caught the media's eye because they have all fallen victim to child predators and child abusers. It seems as though this decade has had a never ending laundry list of young victims all across the United States.
Whenever I think of today's Republicans, I think of Marx. Groucho Marx, that is. Among many other things, he is well known for a musical number in the movie Horse Feathers where he proudly sings, "Whatever it is, I'm against it." This philosophy has been taken to heart by Republicans in the Obama era.
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