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In Steve Nolan’s article “25 Reasons Why We Need To Preserve Our 2nd Amendment Right To Keep And Bear Arms,” he explains why we should bear arms, and why we should fight to keep our civil liberty to bear arms. This essay is intended to help the reader become more informed on the right to bear arms, how the media only covers gun related incidents, but not instances where guns have saved people, and how many politicians contort the 2nd amendment to aid them in elections. By uncovering some truths…

Immigration As once said by our President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you, and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” People now have a different point of view from one of our greatest presidents’.Some believe immigrants are a danger to our great country but there are also those who believe we should give these people a chance and help us make our country a much better place in many ways. Many studies have said that by the…

over two trillion dollars on a war that is incapable of succeeding. The way that money is distributed in the caring for inmates is simple. Inmates require housing, food, healthcare, guarding, and supplies. In a research conducted survey, Vera Institute of Justice revealed that the annual cost per inmate ranges from the lowest $17,285 which is in Alabama to $60,076 which is in New York (“The Price”), “but the nation spends only an average $11,665 per public school student” (Brandson). As a…

Immigration, as defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “the act of coming to another country to live there permanently,” is rapidly becoming a controversial topic in the United States (“immigrant”). According to PBS, immigrants, most commonly migrating from regions in Latin America and Asia, are eager to cross the American border as they are often fleeing harsh governments or religious oppression and relocating in search of a better life for themselves, as well as their family. (PBS) The…

columnist with the publications carrying his work ranging from major news outlets like FoxNew.com and the Washington Post, to other periodicals such as Playboy. Additionally, he is the senior editor of the American libertarian magazine Reason. The Cato Institute, a self ascribed “American Libertarian think tank”, published this essay in which Balko calls for an end to the socialistic progression of American healthcare with a focus on obesity. Denying that federal anti-obesity measures will have…

Legalization of Medical Marijuana and the Doctrine of Utilitarianism Introduction Utilitarianism is one of the moral theories that is best known and influential. According to this theory, the moral worth of an action is mainly determined its contribution towards utility that enhances happiness and pleasure. It is mainly concerned with the pleasure that people get through the moral actions taken. The focus is on the greatest number of people. In the pursuit of this theory, then legalization of…

Introduction According to the Cato Institute, in 2010 an estimated 4,861 cases of police misconduct were reported. Within a year, the local police report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that there are at least 400 cases of suspects being killed by police (Hoyer & Heath, 2014). These killings can be classified as police brutality. According to the Department of Justice, police brutality is the use of excessive force to accomplish a lawful police purpose (“Addressing Police Brutality,”…

Government data mining depends on the access to large pool of data about Americans from federal government files, states public records, telecommunications company data bases, such as banks, healthcare providers and more (Harper). In particular, predictive data mining has the appetite for Americans’ personal information for it utilizes data both in developing patterns and in the search for those patterns (Harper). Most Americans are left in the dark that a lot of information about them in the…

the firms. Since the minimum wage increases, firms are looking for an alternative to save money and that lead them to turn to machinery. In a bulletin by Joseph J. Sabia, associate professor of economics at San Diego State University, wrote for Cato Institute, he states that many firms respond to to the increase in minimum wages by replacing low-skilled labor with machinery (Sabia, 2014). Firms will laid off their unskilled workers and replace them with machinery that can produce double the…

It was just yesterday when this elderly woman named Susan, was struggling to walk up the street. She looked like she didn’t have a lot of money. So that’s when the idea of elderly citizens should receive free bus rides. Elderly citizens should receive free bus rides because they need to save their money, if they don’t have cars they can be able to get around, and they won’t have to complain about getting hurt. This is why elderly people should receive free bus rides. “A recent report from a…