Posts by EricH

The "Christian Legal Society", a student group at the UC Hastings College of the Law, is challenging the school's anti-discriminatory policy which requires, "officially recognized student groups to admit any Hastings student who wants to join" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702908.html).  To break it down, this christian group wants the freedom to deny other students entrance because of their beliefs or sexual orientation; so gays and atheists are out.  Not to sound bigoted, but I support the Christian legal group's effort to procure their freedom to deny or accept anyone of their choosing.  However, that being said, it is important that Hastings uses strong discretion when giving school clubs funding as this can lead down a dark road of school sponsored discrimination.  But if t

 Last week Utah State House Majority Leader Kevin Garn was revealed to have been "nude hot tubbing" with a 15 year old girl in 1985. 

"This week, it all came out: In 1985, Garn, then 30 and married, and Maher, a 15-year-old who worked for him, took off their clothes and climbed into a hot tub."

-http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14666716?source=most_viewed

Our society is involved in a tremulous debate over the validity of evidence supporting climate change and global warming.The debate has been politicized, humanized, and super-sized leading Americans ultimately to the point of utter confusion. However, I have made some remarkable discoveries on the Internet to help settle this dispute once and for all. Like so many Americans, I was initially fooled by the measured reasoning used in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.However, his evidence seemed too scientifically based and his citations were so precise it was absurd.So I did some investigation of my own to discover the truth about climate change.I immediately uncovered what seemed to be the silver bullet to Mr. Gore's theory; a graph showing declining temperatures. (If this image does not appear please click on this link).

Last week in my U.S. government class, the teacher proposed a question to the students that I have been curious about ever since.  He asked, "Are young people (age 16-22) today becoming more republican or more democratic." My immediate response was to assume the young generation finds progressive ideals more appealing and so would therefore be naturally attracted to the democratic party; besides, this was the party to which most of my friends and I were politically associated.  However, a student who had lived in Texas disagreed and illuminated the fact that almost all her friends in the lone star state were republican.  Her comment seemed to be a wake up call against my own bubble of self involvement and narcissism.  I felt embarrassed that I had forgotten to consider that outside my life, there are people that think differently.