Blog Post 5

Obama to veto Keystone Pipeline

After almost 6 years of signing every bill that landed on his office desk, he will be completing his second veto of his political career. Due to the fact that the republican party has both control of the house and the senate, it will be hard for Obama's veto to make a huge impact, due to the fact that 3/4th of both the house and senate will have to vote for the bill for it to be passed. The republican party is currently working on chipping away at the health care reform policy, and are making it slowly and surely.

As for the connection to our class, he is the president, and he makes a huge deal due to the fact that he has so much political power. The author of the article seems very sided toward the republicans, that Obama is just making it a huge deal.

Blog #4

ISIS Becoming a bigger and bigger threat, White House does nothing

ISIS has preformed another beheading, this time on 21 Egyptians on a Jordanian beach. After the execution, it was followed by Egyptian air strikes lead by Jordan. The shocker about this story is that the White House refused to refer to the Egyptians as Christians, but as "Egyptian Citizens". This struck back with a lot of controversy.

This is related to our class because the President is the commander in chief and decides when to go to war, and we have done some effort to help out in Jordan, but we could be doing more. As for the article, I felt that it didn't really have a side, and just stated the facts.

Blog #3

ISIS is becoming a bigger deal every day

ISIS has always been a threat, both to Jordan and the US. After the brutal murder of the Jordanian pilot, tensions have gotten worse. There is frequent gunfire outside of the US Military Base in Jordan, and threats are getting worse. If ISIS were to launch a full attack on the US base, they would need a lot of militants to penetrate the outer wall, and by doing so makes them a bigger target to air strikes.

How this applies to civics, is that our situation over in Iraq and Jordan are because of our president, Barack Obama. As for the position of the author, I believe he didn't have a side, and he just purely stated the facts, and that's what his job is.

Blog Post 2

Ebola help relief is soon to end in Liberia

After the giant Ebola scare in the United States several months ago, the relief plan in Liberia is coming to an end. This was actually announced by the U.S. Defense Official, with plans to end it next month.We have done our work, and infection rates are near zero. The number of people over there will drop from 3,000 to 1,500, and will still drop further after the fact.