Murder In America

Each day the United States government allows close to 4,000 innocent lives to be taken within our borders. The motive behind 93% of these deaths is simply so citizens won't be inconvenienced. There is no justice for these victims who have not even yet  been born. It is intolerable to accept this act of violence in society today. The law needs to withdraw its protection from this murderous exploit and make abortion illegal.
Above all else, abortion is murder. The definition of life according to Webster's dictionary is "an organism state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction". Life starts at conception. The United States allows abortion and gives it power with legalization. In Germany in the 1940's Hitler's mass genocide of the Jewish people was also legal. Human compassion and common sense told the allied forces that they needed to protect the sanctity of life and hold these Germans accountable for their treacherous deeds. They declared that the Nazis performed an illegal act accordance to a higher law. Using the same logic, the mass murder of babies every year in the United States is a crime against humanity and can also be held up to this higher law.
Abortion isn't an acceptable solution for a woman who doesn't want a child. There are numerous very simple and obvious options. The first most convenient and logical alternative is to use a contraceptive. There is an incredible amount of variety in contraceptives so there is no denying that one can be found to suit every lifestyle. The fact that woman unprepared to be mothers have unprotected sex is an outcome of pure laziness. Janet Smith of www.goodmorals.org says "One reason for their careless use of contraceptives is precisely their desire to engage in meaningful sexual activity rather than in meaningless sexual activity." An increase in funding under Title X, raising the taxpayers' tab to $700 MILLION in direct funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood in 2008 alone. A woman needs to pay for her contraceptives so Americans don't have to pay for her abortion.
Abortion is a horrible deed. It is murder. How can America, the supposedly most civilized nation in the world allow it to happen. Legislative action needs to occur to make abortion illegal and save the lives of America's innocent children.

Greed vs. California Law

Greed stricken oil companies want California to amend their laws so they won't have to purchase expensive clean energy equipment. Thomas Friedman of The New York Times strongly sides with California's stand against the oil tyrants.
Friedman quotes Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger saying "It is very clear that the oil companies from outside the state that are trying to take out our A.B. 32 (an act designed to revert California's air pollution back to the levels it was at in 1990), and trying to take out our environmental laws, have no interest in suspending it, but just to get rid of it.”
The author goes on to talk about how the oil companies are trying to create the public image that they will create more jobs with their new policies. They also go on to state that never before has California seen an unemployment rate below 5.5%. Friedman thinks that they intend to kill the environmental acts California set in place or they never would have mentioned that unemployment was so low.
The people who invested billions of dollars into this clean climate act are very outraged as well. It was only being tested in California to see how it would work for the whole country, but oil companies want it stopped before it reaches that. 
This article is well structured and aimed at the right target, and uses some very powerful quotes from some very important people. I agree totally with Mr. Friedman's arguement. Greed should never be allowed to come before the common good of a nation. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/opinion/06friedman.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

A Plan For the Gulf

In the editorial I read, the author describes how president Obama plans to deal with the aftermath of the oil spill on the Gulf Coast. The author goes on to say that president Obama deligated the plans to save the coast to the Navy's Secretary, Ray Mabus.

In Mabus's solution to the oil spill, he expresses two main recommendations that he has. Congress needs to create a Gulf Coast Recovery Council comprised of federal, state and local leaders to coordinate the over all repairs needed to mend the damage to the environment and to public health. Also that Congress should amend the law to ensure that a large portion of the fines owed by BP and others are spent towards recovery of the coast.

The Author feels that Congress lacks the ability to commence and complete the ideas expressed in Mabus's report. He has good reason to believe the way he does. Congress still hasn't held up on their promises for post-Katrina. Many problems that Congress aimed to change such as industrial development and levee building that starves the wetlands have not been altered.

President Obama is expected to create a Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force led by Lisa Jackson (the head of the EPA). But in order for this to all happen, Congress needs to fully and finally commit to a long-term recovery program. According to the author, the best idea would be to create a council empowered by congress that is free of any financial and political favor.

Since this editorial is targeted at everyone who is effected by the oil spill, I strongly think that the author is putting the pressure on us to make sure that Congress does everything it can to restore our coast.