Environmental and Public Works Disapproves of Keystone Pipeline

    Chairperson Senator Barbara Boxer states her extreme disapproval of the Keystone yesterday. She said that the pipeline will not benefit our country; instead it will mainly benefit Canada. Also she thinks it to be outrageous that a country coming out of a recession would consider approving of an expensive project that will only create 35 permanent jobs. There is also concern for the environment and the health of the American people as the tar sands flowing through the pipeline will pollute the air and cause asthma and carbon dioxide pollution. She promotes the highway bill for it will create millions of jobs and help boost our economy.
     The statement Senator Boxer released did not go into much detail, but she, as the head of the Environmental Committee, should know her stuff. It seemed that she had absolutely nothing positive to say about the keystone pipeline and it makes me doubt that it will be a good cause for our country. I side with Senator Boxer when she says the highway bill should be promoted if it will truly create millions of jobs.
      The link to Senator Boxer's statement is below:
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Majority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=8fbf41ec-00e8-f685-17d5-965a3588bb3c

Sarah Palin Rips on the Budget Bill

Sarah Palin stated her opinion on the $1.1 trillion dollar budget bill passing a majority republican congress. She stated her shock that the bill passed as it included the new immigration amnesty in its budget. She stated, “The Republican leadership in the House just flipped American voters the bird by sidelining the new Congress we just elected.” She goes on to state her shellshock and simply hopes that the Republican voters receive extreme backlash by their constituents.


Former-Governor has ever reason to be disappointed in Republican Congressmen as this highly aggressive bill is so disapproved by many states. I agree that this bill seems to only make our future more bleak with ludicrous spending. I hope some sort of alternative is addressed for the sake of our economy. I don't understand how something so disapproved of was not compromised to more of an agreement.


Sarah Palin did a great job speaking her mind openly.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/12/sarah-palin-on-budget-gop-chiefs-flipped-american-/#ixzz3Lij92W00
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Louis Head was head figure in Ferguson riot

     Louis Head, the step-father of Michael Brown, is being investigated on the charge of inciting a riot. Michael Brown died when shot six times by officer Darren Wilson; Brown was unarmed. The riot that Louis Head may have provoked took place November 24th nearly two weeks after his step-son was killed. Riots have been taking place in Ferguson, Mo. after this Brown's death and many have been violent. More riots took place after Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted by a grand jury. Louis Head formally apologized for his actions of encouraging a riot stating that he let his emotions get the best of him and he was in the heat of the moment. he continues to say "to place blame solely on me for the conditions of our community, and country, after the grand jury decision goes way too far and is as wrong as the decision itself. To declare a state of emergency and send a message of war, and not peace, before a grand jury decision was announced is also wrong." The riots in Ferguson are to protest an injustice that has occurred and Head states that rioting does not truly represent their task well.
     I believe that the people in Ferguson responded to the Michael Brown tragedy in a way that is not as effective as it should've been. Many riots are extremely violent and many more people are being hurt than just the Brown/Head family. However, I think that a great injustice has occurred and some sort of motion should be put in place because any citizen who is unarmed or has not acted to threaten the life of an officer cannot be robbed of his right to live. The action of Darren Wilson was extremely unjust and disproportion to any threat Michael Brown could have made that it is ludicrous that he was not indicted. The people in Ferguson want to assure that no injustice could happen again, but I am afraid that that message is too difficult to receive when they are responding violently and only hurting others unjustly.

The 14th Amendment Will Help Gay Marriage

     Adrienne Morris states her opinion on gay marriage and how the 14th Amendment is the means for the ratification of legal gay marrriage. She starts by proving that homosexuals are discriminated against to a point that they are denied their right to marriage. Then she states that this discrimination takes place due to the majority opposition. It is implied that the 14th Amendment was put into place to protect such a scenario: the rights of citizens cannot be limited out of discrimination and opposition.

     It is my personal belief that sexual orientation is not determinned to be a factor of discrimination in the constitution for the founding fathers were not concerned of the such. I do not think that gay marriage should be legalized in America, and I, personally, do not think that it is supported in the 14th amendment.

The article by Adrienne Morris is found at the following link:http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/mailbag/gay-marriage-and-the-th-amendment/article_997a96b9-f7b9-5aae-82f6-9146fb29e079.html

Tillis Wins the Race

     This blog is a response to my earlier blog reporting the outrageous cost of the North Carolina senate race. The race totaled 81 million in outside funders and Tillis came out on top. Each of the 114,000 TV ads was vital to his victory as he only trumped his opponent, Hagan, 48.95 percent to 47.14 percent. He won by 125, 000 North Carolina voters. The victory gave majority Republicans to the senate and marks one of the quickest rise in politics for Tillis, as he was a simple town commissioner just eight years ago.
     I think that it is inevitable for a race so highly advertised to be so close; I am frankly surprised that more voters just decided to vote for the independent candidate out of annoyance of advertisements.


The information above was taken from the following link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-senate-tillis-defeats-hagan-as-gop-reclaims-senate/ar-BBd58Xg?ansObserver11

SD looking normal

     Many have been speculating about the probability of a non-republican senator being elected into the South Dakota senate, which does not happen often as South Dakota is largely Republican. However the article found at the following link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/sd/south_dakota_ senate_rounds_vs_weiland-4091.html puts all of these claims to rest. The article provides that the race is between three main candidates: Rounds, Weiland and Pressler. This means that the likely winner will only need roughly 40% of the votes. The poles listed on the site state that Mike Rounds has won the hearts of 42% of Americans as of October 26th.
    I do agree with the conservatives strategies of Republicans, so if Mike Rounds truly supports these ideals I definitely hope that the information of this site is accurate.

A Big Budget

     The article by Mark Trumbull provides a shocking statistic for its readers. Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis have been on pace to spend over 100 million dollars in ad campaigns to win the hearts of North Carolina. This would be the most expensive race in senate history. The candidates have already spent 11 million dollars themselves and 70 million has been spent by their sponsors. They are already approaching the previous North Carolina record of 77.3 million set by Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.


    The race is neck-in-neck therefore the candidates view the ludicrous ad campaigning as necessary. They are spending  the ads in order to inform the citizens of the faults of their running mates and their own accomplishments.


    I can only hope that the ads produced by these sponsorships and spending contain true information.


All of the above information is found at the following link:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1021/North-Carolina-on-track-to-have-costliest-Senate-race-ever