Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 8:08AM Mitt Romney probably secured the Republican Presidential nomination with his win in Illinois last night. Romney declared he is the best candidate for opposing President Barack Obama. In addition to this, the economy seemed to be the biggest issue, boosting Romney over his biggest competition Rick Santorum. Governor Romney has carried three states in the industrial midwest.
_Biraaj_
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 11:44PM After a young, African American teenage boy was shot and killed by a hispanic neighborhood watchman, Florida defence law was questioned. Another theme which was addressed by the case involves race. It has been questioned whether the watchman shot the boy because of his skin color. According to information showing the officer's previous reports about black citizens, this proves that the watchman was most likely racist. The emphasis of racism on this death is a frightening idea, even if it was mere paranoia and not pure hatred that caused it to happen.
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- Diana Fernandez
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 9:38PM This article discusses our government's modern basis for support of Obama-Care by looking back at the 1942 ruling on Wickard vs. Fulburn. In this case, Filburn sued the federal government for punishing him with a penalty for every extra bushel of wheat he grew on his own property. He took this case all the way to the Supreme Court; however, the court ruled that he Federal government has the right to regulate state and interstate commerce via the Commerce Clause. Present-day supporters of the new health care plan say that the Filburn decision shows how much leeway the federal government has under the Commerce clause. Thereby, leading supporters to say that if one can be penalized for their crops, they can be penalized for not going out and purchasing health care. Opponents of the new health care bill passed by President Obama feel that the ruling set the true limit of power of the federal government, and that controlling health care is constitutionally out of their reach. Even Mr. Filburn was reported saying in 1942 how much power the government was granted after the ruling. Despite the major controversy around this ruling over 60 years ago, there is still no legal definition or limit to the powers of the Federal government. This case purely proves that there needs to be a clear understanding of where the powers of government lie, and what they are exactly. This leads to the question, where does government's power lie? and with whom?
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--Sean Ramras
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 9:36PM The House GOP leaders reveal a 2013 budget blueprint. The $3.53 trillion plan has a lot of opposition from the Democratic Party. They claim that it’s only hurting the middle class to help the wealthy. This blueprint has a huge tax cut for the upper class. The proposal among other things focuses on changing the Medicare program and to help stop cutting spending on defense. The proposal on Social Security and Medicare are “$20 billion below the agreed to in last summer’s deficit reduction deal.” Looking at the comments posted and the bias of the article, I can say that this plan has no future.
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- Jonathan Chang
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 8:06PM Obama has exepmt these countries from Iran Sanctions because they did reduce their purchase of Iranian oil singnificantly. Even though the EU has banned oil purchases to some extreme and will do so completly by June 1st the Iranians are still not feeling the need to negotiate. The purpose of these changes in purchasing oil is to force Iran to change it's course and negotiate with the rest of the people. So far Iran hasn't given up anything but the Obama administration feels like they will soon.
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-Luis Asensio