I commented on Alex's post about how unmoral it is to lethal inject a mentally disabled person.Post

I agree with you completely, Alex. I don't think we should ever be a country that exterminates mentally challenged people. It is not morally right, and it should never be permitted. We should be furthering education on mental disorders and find out what is going on to make certain mentally challenged people commit murder, rather than killing them, when they aren't even certain of what they did. I could, however, feel completely different if I ever lose someone close to me in a situation like that, but that is what law is supposed to be about, keeping emotions out of it, and being the moral code that we live by in America.

U.S. National Government Part 2

For part two of the United States Government, I decided to write about Gun Control. The fact that we have people pushing to take away the rights of citizens of this great country, is absolutely appalling! We are afforded the right to our firearms according to the 2nd amendment. The argument that by taking away our weapons will make us safer is completely ridiculous.
We are a nation of over 300 million people, and estimated 270 million guns spread amongst us. We are the most well armed country in the entire world, because of the 2nd amendment. We have that right passed down to us from our forefathers because they saw first hand of a government that got too big for its britches, and saw what was needed to take it down. They didn't want us to be unarmed, and nor do I.
Majority of murders with guns are in gun free zones. These criminals aren't stupid, they know exactly where guns are allowed and where they are not. And those criminals that are killing them own those weapons illegally. The shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theatre, gun free zone. The school in Newton, CT, gun free zone. Muslim man goes on a shooting rampage in Ft. Hood, Texas, gun free zone. See a pattern?
As a Veteran of this wonderful country of ours, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution, and I, just like every other veteran, take that oath very seriously. When you talk about taking away my rights, that I defended, you are barking up the wrong tree. People will still be able to get their hands on weapons, legally or illegally, so if you make it harder for law abiding citizens to buy a gun, you are taking way their right to defend themselves, and that is not only wrong, it is inhumane.

Commentary of My Colleague's Work

I had to comment or critique a classmates blog that I either agreed with or did not agree with and I came across a blog titled Weak President Strong Government: What Would Our Founding Fathers Think? written by Tijuana Whitlock.
I agree with everything about this article written by my class colleague Tijuana Whitlock. I don't think our Founders would be very happy to see a president dead set on pushing his agenda even if that means going around the Constitution.
He is very disrespectful to our country's military and veterans. I myself am a veteran and had to wait an incredible amount of time to be taken care of by the V.A. I still have many friends still in the service who are completely fed up with him dismantling our military and handing out pink slips. It's not like our men and women in uniform don't have enough to worry about while fighting terrorists, now they have to worry about losing their jobs, because this president is very dead set about bringing our numbers in service down, even with the growing threats of terrorism.

The U.S. National Government

If I were to grade the United States' national government just by watching how we are dealing with the ever growing threat of ISIS, I would give it an F. Our government leaders are too occupied with re-elections, or maybe just worried that dealing with the problem would be political suicide. When did American leadership become so timid? Why are citizens of this great nation electing and re-electing spineless and immoral people to represent us? We are ultimately to blame for this, because we keep making the same mistakes and we never learn from it. You pretty much have to kill a baby or get involved in some sleazy sex scandal to be removed from office. We used to be a country that stood up for what is right and fought against the wrongs in this world. When did standing up for what is right become a political disaster?

We have an ever growing problem in Iraq and Syria. Jihadists in the murdering, raping, evil gang of savages, known as ISIS have been sweeping through Iraq and Syria, and our president turns a blind eye to it. They are murdering people every single day, and kidnapping young girls and women and selling them in the sex slave market. These horrific acts are going basically unchallenged because the United States refuses to send boots on the ground. The president made a promise that he would get all boots off the ground in Iraq and he definitely kept his word. It was the second worst decision after the invasion of Iraq was to pull our troops out of Iraq, the first is not doing anything about it after it is obviously out of control over there. Our soldiers and marines would have a huge impact on the genocide going on over there, and it would be an immediate impact. We would halter their advancement, and then we would be able to eliminate as many as possible, and send the rest feeling. We have the best military in the world, and they are combat experienced, it is time we use them again. Former Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolten, said wednesday, "the only thing that is going to stop this growth of terrorism--as states deteriorate all over the Middle East--Is an American involvement, with a coalition of others, who understand that the terrorist threat--the threat of extremist Islam, remains and is growing. And out policy the past several months has been passivity in the face of ISIS in Iraq and a whole series of other crises that we see developing to."

We need to get this right during this next election and start electing people in power that stand up for what is right, it doesn't matter if they are Democrat or Republican, just who is the best person for the job and the one that doesn't have any other agenda but what is good for humanity. Isn't that, after all, what is at stake?

Government Incompetence Dealing with Ebola

In the piece I read titled God Help Us, written by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, he was talking about how instead of sending our troops to the ever growing threat of ISIS, we are sending them to West Africa to combat this deadly virus.
I would say that this is a scare piece for sure, but I agree completely with this article. Our troops are receiving 4 hours of training, and there roles that they will play there aren't entirely clear. Reynolds make strong arguments that our troops are more than likely going to be infected and will bring it back home to us. This is extremely frightening considering we don't know everything about this virus, and we are using experimental drugs, that we aren't sure will work, and I'm sure they aren't sure of what the side effects will be.
Reynolds starts the article off by pointing out that by sending ground troops to Iraq/Syria to deal with ISIS, we would make a huge impact on their caliphate. There is no doubt in my mind that there is where our troops should be, we should be fighting side by side with the Kurds, just like we did in Iraq. We need to deal with that virus head on.
You can view the article here USA Today

Did Obama Know how big of a threat ISIS really was?

I read an article in the Dallas News by editorial writer Tod Robberson, headlined ISIS sweep into Iraq was no surprise to anyone paying attention. In the article Tod Robberson starts off by saying that president Obama would have you believe that his director of intelligence, James Clapper, had underestimated what was going on in Iraq and Syria.
Robberson states that the letter that Democratic and Republican senators sent to Obama on Oct. 29, 2013
which was sent 11 months ago warning the president that ISIS was taking over Syria and advancing in Iraq, went ignored.
If the president really didn't know about the growing threat, how did the Dallas morning news? Here are a few headlines Robberson linked to his article. Spike in sectarian violence hurts Iraq’s economy (July 29, 2013), Death toll from violence spikes7,818 civilians killed in 2013; number had fallen with U.S. troop surge (Jan. 2, 2014), Security forces battle to put down al-Qaeda uprisings in Sunni cities (Jan. 3, 2014), Syrian war echoing through region Iraq hit by al-Qaeda attacks; blast strikes Beirut (Jan. 3, 2014), just to give you a few. You can see that if the Dallas Morning News had this information, that clearly the president of the United States of America and his advisers knew the coming threat, yet did nothing about it. Obama even went on to call them the J.V. team of terrorism.
If I were grading this article by Tod Robberson, I would give him an A for sure. He backed up his opinions about the president knowing all along the huge threat ISIS poses while doing nothing about it. He is even handing out pink slips to our military as ISIS grows in numbers.

Secure Our Border Now!

I believe securing our border with Mexico and Canada to be of our number one priority as a Nation. There is little to no action being done to prevent enemies of the United Sates to invade us and attack us. In my opinion, every border state needs to send their National Guard to the border. There are parts of the border(which spans 1,969 miles) that you can simply just walk across with nobody there to stop you. We, as a Nation, can't ignore the fact that there are some out there that aim to hurt us, and we need to deal with that threat head on and it starts with securing our borders. In this link provided, it shows that 4 terrorists were caught trying to cross the border. If we caught these 4, how many have we not caught?Fox News