SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

Fellow young Americans, I wish to share with you an observation.  Read More »

I am enormously proud of my family's political heritage. It is not one of holding office, or working in a government beaurocracy, or even being highly involved in a campaign. No, instead the political tradition of my parents is one of a political community: a circle of friendship and activism.  Read More »

Everyone has something that really, really grinds at their nerves, gets their "goat", yanks their chain, etc. For me, that's corrupt politicians who make it hard for the citizens to have any faith at all in the Federal government. In my U.S. History AP class, just this morning, a classmate and I got into a heated discussion about the power the federal government ought to have.  Read More »

Part II
I put this in two parts because I prefer to keep my blogs short, and easier to read. This seemed like a good way to divide it.  Read More »

Once, in high school, while discussing the constitution, a teacher told the class that in school, we did not have all the rights that are granted to us in the constitution. For example, the school had the right to search our lockers without reason, and without our permission, and it was not illegal search and seizure. While this may sound crazy, that made perfect sense to me.  Read More »

Today we did presentations on Capitalism and Socialism, by Linda Chang. And Politics: Finland, by me. Finland was a handful, so I didn't get to do Singapore. No wonder they could write books about Finland, there really is something about Finland's educational system that makes children happier and more prepared for life. Their value system is also interesting.  Read More »