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Obama agrees with one of McCain’s arguments at the healthcare summit, surprising the senator, and showing American that they have a non-partisan president, but that his patience is waning.

It used to be that when you moved to a new city and didn’t know anyone, or just graduated from school with not a lot of job experience, you could always temp. Maybe you’d get lucky and you find a job somewhat to your liking and get hired on permanently after a few months. Nowadays, like everything else in the job market, temping is not what it used to be. A rise in temp workers used to mean an improving economy. However, according to economists, while temp workers are still being hired, and demand has even risen, they are not often hired on permanently. The benefit to companies is that they don’t have to pay benefits and they don’t have to fire people they can’t afford to keep. In my experience, it is a rare temp agency that offers benefits that equals more than some help in opening a medical emergency savings account or some crumpled coupons to Lenscrafters.

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the pressure for Washington to take drastic action in protecting Americans was immense. With emotions flying high the Patriot Act, also called Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, was passed nearly unanimously, with only Russ Feingold voting against the [...]

There has been quite an outcry among the pro-choice community of late against a recent bill passed by the Utah legislature. The bill gives women a choice to see the fetus before choosing to get an abortion. Apparently, the “Pro-Choice” community is becoming less about choice and educated decisions, and more about defending abortion at [...]

A recent proposal by Utah Republican State Senator Chris Buttars has gotten a lot of press and upset many educators and has excited some students. Buttars first proposed that the State of Utah eliminate senior year of high school but later changed that to an optional senior year for students that had already finished their credits. He says this plan could save the state 60 million dollars a year.

The constitution reserves rights for everyone in America, not just citizens, an outrageous conclusion for people that want to incarcerate domestic criminals without charge, torture anyone deemed a terrorist, or enslave their immigrant neighbors.

Tan Zuoren, a Chinese activist who investigated in whether careless construction contributed to the deaths in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was recently sentenced to five years in jail by the Chinese government.
Formally, Tan was indicted for subversion in having connections with the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In response to the verdict, [...]

The Obama administration announced that it is proposing to form a new agency to study and report on climate change. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, said that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather [...]

2/3rds of all inmates in the United States are non-violent petty offenders who have not even been convicted of a crime — they simply do not have the money to pay bail as small as $50. In the meantime, bondsmen reap huge profits, generations of lives are ruined, and justice is unfairly served.

For the past 23 years, rebel leader, Joseph Kony, has been abducting children and forcing them into being soldiers in Uganda’s civil war. These children have no reason to be part of the war and are only taking others’ lives for the sake of their own. Here is one attempt to bring this situation one [...]