Come on, Congress

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As this week passes I can't help but feel a bit of an Arkham City vibe coming from Boston; our Country in general. Resin letters popping up again, bombings, now two men, a police officer and one of the original bombers (possibly) killed in a gun fight, and the other bomber on the run. What a great time for Congress to decide not to pass the gun control bills. 

While the Boston crisis began with explosions and not direct gun use, it has led to that. Violence breeds violence, so this is not very surprising. While I am a strong believer in honoring our Constitution and believe our Forefathers crafted a masterpiece, I am not so narrow minded to ignore the fact that interpretation and modification is necessary, and should be welcomed. Those before us wrote the constitution, including the 2nd amendment in a time of hostility, in a time when guns took more time to load than shoot. Automatic weapons were not even a part of their wildest dreams. They had no idea what their predecessors would create. And if they had I believe they would have made stronger regulations.

I am not against the right to bear arms. I do believe as citizens we should have the right to protect ourselves, especially in our time, and if your choice of doing so is a concealed weapon, so be it. But should that go as far as thirty machine guns in a household with small children? Should gun laws be so lapse they are sold and traded illegally on a daily basis? No. I don't see how anyone, especially our Congress, sees this as okay.

Too Green To Be True

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After a term on the back burner, climate change is making its much needed comeback to the political stage. America’s energy dependency is declining while her energy productions increase, putting us on a path towards energy independence. During President Obama’s first state of the union of his second term he addressed climate change, reminding us of the West coast wild fires that were forgotten, on a national level, as quickly as they engulfed too many homes. In his address, Obama gave Americans two options referring to the increase of natural disasters; believing in “freak coincidences” or believing “in the overwhelming judgment of science".  Science. Could anything be farther back on the back burner?

Beyonce vs. Barack

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While this is old news, weeks old now, it is still something that’s been on my mind. I’m sure everyone remembers Beyonce’s big lip-syncing debacle at the Inauguration, because I sure do, and it fills me with dread. But it’s not why you’re thinking. I don’t look back on this moment in shame because I was disappointed that one of my favorite artists, and one of the world’s most talented women, was lip-syncing- I think about this moment and shake my head because what our nation took away from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s second inauguration, the second inauguration of the first black president to ever run this country (and even if that was not the case this situation would bother me), a moment that will go down in history, is that Beyonce Knowles decided to lip-sync.