Jasmine on the Issues

...But don't worry. This site will be left up for you to go back and read old posts and to share my articles with your friends. I just won't be updating this particular site anymore.New posts on this blog are moving over to my blog on Wordpress. Jazzed About Stuff will always post music on Mondays,

Imagine; one day you wake up and the love of your life is gone forever. Death takes her away and leaves you with a terrible sense of grief and loneliness. You’re hearts heavy, and when you pick up the phone to call the paramedics, the FBI show up at your door.This is the story of Steve Kurtz, an ass

It’s a new question that has been brought up in the wake of new and faster technology. Are online bloggers who have adapted to the growing trend of social media actually journalists? Or better yet, are they protected by the same laws that protect journalists from losing their jobs or from being phys

Here's a little something I wrote for a class. I think it's appropriate in sight of the recent passing holiday.(Tom Toslino, Navajo, as he arrived at Carlisle and-after 3 years)The House Concurrent Resolution 108: Another Bullet in the Government’s GunWhen one thinks of America they often think of t

The unemployment rate is currently at 9 percent according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, and monthly job growth has slowed to an average of just 90,000 new jobs a month over the past six months, a pace at which growth in the working-age population will always exceed the number of new jobs being

There seems to be a lot of confusion going among the Republican presidential candidates. Front running official in the national polls seem to have trouble pinning down what they actually believe in and what constitutes as a decent joke.Take for instance Herman Cain. On Saturday, Oct. 15, Cain had ma

"President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon an end to the Iraq war, declaring that all American troops will leave the country by the end of the year."As promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over,

“No civilization in human history has collapsed for a lack of a means to convey small goods to their abodes,” Ellis Sterling said in an article for the Los Angeles Times. “However, civilizations have failed for abusing their environment and depleting their resources.”Is it really going to kill peopl

Shouts of joy from Italian prisoners and family members were heard as 24-year-old, Amanda Knox, was taken away from her jail cell and sent back to the United States. Plenty of “Welcome Home Amanda” signs filled her home town of Seattle, Washington and half priced drinks were served in celebration fo

Capital Punishment; it’s a life or death situation that people have been debating about for years. Does it make sense to end someone’s life because they have at one point ended someone else’s? My answer has always pretty much been no. Even if all of the evidence in the world pointed to one single pe