Democrates Rasing the White Flag in Senate Race?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/democrats-south-dakota_n_6063558.html

"Democrats Scale Back Spending in South Dakota Senate Race" discusses how there has been a clear reduction in the amount of funding from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the South Dakota Senate race. This has sparked speculation that the Democratic Party has drastically reduced its interest in winning the South Dakota Senate position. Furthermore,  Rick Weiland, the Democratic candidate, held a press conference attacking the DSCC; he said that their campaigns actually hurt his chances for winning the race, and that they benefitted the Independent party candidate,  Larry Pressler, more than him.

I think that this is an excellent example on how funding from investors can change the way that the a political race can turn out. It is actually very unfortunate that peoples choices are based so much on propaganda and mud racking that they hear in the media. All citizens should become more informed and analyze the objective facts about each candidate and not just base their vote on what they are being told. I have become so fed up with these advertisement that whenever they come on the radio I instantly change the channel. What do you think?

 

Illegal Immagrants on Voting Rolls

http://watchdog.org/178516/non-citizens-voter-rolls/

In North Carolina almost 10,000 non-citizens are registered to vote because of an Obama program. The passing of the  DACA (Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals program) allows immigrants protected under the DACA to freeze their deportation which in some states--such as North Carolina-- allows these illegal aliens to obtain a drivers licenses. Those  illegal immigrants that had drivers licenses also found a way to register to vote. Jay DeLancy, executive director of the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina stated that there had to be a system failure and that the issue should be fixed before voting commences next Thursday.

I find this to be completely ridiculous. People that are not citizens of the United States should not EVER be on the voter registry; they are not even suppose to be in this country let alone voting on who runs it. Furthermore, I think that the DACA program should not have been passed. Just because someone was smuggled into the States at a fairly young age does not make them a citizen. I understand that is would be extremely hard for them to adjust to deportation, but the United States should be focusing more on legal residents than those who are not. I understand this is a touchy subject, but this is my stance.

Move!

Coroner: Dad collapses on infant daughter, she survives 3 days

  By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/us/louisiana-infant-survives-dead-father/index.html?hpt=us_c2

Jason Fields had been dead for three days before his young son came to visit him in in home. When the boy went to his neighbors house to report his fathers death, they did not believe him, but they followed the juvenile home where Fields was indeed dead. However, what they found was more than a corpse: trapped beneath it was Fields' daughter, Betty Jean, who had survived the three days. It is amazing that she survived.  She was then transported to University Health Shreveport for treatment, and she is expected to be released soon.

When I first saw this article, I was baffled that two people could be missing for so long, and it go unnoticed. Yet, after thinking about it people are missing everyday, so it is rather amazing that these two were found when they were--a day longer and Betty Jean would probably have been dead. This just makes me feel extremely lucky that I have people that would miss me

Texas: Abortion restrictions

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/supreme-court-texas-abortion-clinics/index.html?iref=allsearch
A group of Texas abortion clinics are seeking help from the Supreme Court to be reopened. After the Texas state legislature passed restrictions last week which force 13 clinics to shut down. These restriction are claimed to make it virtually impossible to preform an abortion and abortion rights groups are furious. Critics of the law contend that it will force women to seek "back alley" abortions.

I find the Texas law makers to be rather clever. Their reasoning for imposing the regulations is to improve the health of the patients seen in abortion clinics while the more likely reason is that they are using health as a scapegoat for the real reason: they wish to prevent abortion. Of course this article was clearly written from a liberal point of view, it does make the previously stated valid point. I think that this law is just a foreshadowing of what is to come in the future; abortion will eventually be outlawed just like slavery. It is only a matter of time.

Is It the Plague?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
"Hospital 'dropped the ball' with Ebola patient's travel history, NIH official says" by Catherine E. Shoichet, Ashley Fantz and Holly Yan.

A patient was releases from a hospital in Texas without a proper diagnosis. Normally, this wouldn’t be a huge concern except this patient had recently travelled to Liberia where he contracted Ebola. Failure to link the patient’s symptoms to the virus was due to the fact that doctors did not have a full history of his travels. Ebola has already killed thousands in Africa, and the failure to diagnose the virus caused possibly thousands of other people to be exposed to the virus.

Personally, I think that it was very neglectful of the doctors at fault. They not only put their patient at great risk, but possibly the entire nation. Ebola is obviously a very contagious disease, and it should have been monitored for more closely because it was only a matter of time before the disease transferred to other continents.