Foreign Policy

We are in a position to try and please everyone. I'ts like we don't have a choice. If we don't help out one country or treat them the same they hold it against us. We are force to take care of everyone of countries resent us. It's really hard to please everyone, every country wants their own thing and it's just hard to help everyone. "It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement." We as a nation don't feel like we have to follow other people's demands and we have tried to just push people around, but people are tired of that, and compromises must be made. Yes he should change it a little, but he can't just give into everything and say sorry for everything the last president did. He needs to stand up for what we have done, protect those who need it, and go after those who represent evil.

Stem-Cell Reseach

I don't think it really matters. Let states do what they want. There are other places to research stem-cells, but that being said if there are reseach facilities on federal land then they should be used for whatever the federal government wants them to be used for. The power of the federal government should be more than any one state's, and decisions should be made accordingly. It isn't the states money being spent anyways. I understand that they want to stop the killing of embryos but its for the good of everyone else, and once stem-cells are fully understood im sure they could find a way to replicate them. This is something that could overtime save millions, and i believe that it's worth it.
Obama has made the decision to open up hundreds of reseach centers. This is our president and we are the ones who voted for him. This will also help states who were already spending money on stem-cell rearch, they won't have to spend near as much because of the money they will get from the federal government. The United States should make their decisions together and there is just only so much states can do because other states will just recieve more funding.

Newspapers

I believe that in the future newspapers will become obslete. They just aren't needed anymore. So many many people can get their news from other, more convienient places. I get my news from the internet or the tv. It is just so much easier and you don't have to pay a penny. I mean why would people continue to pay for newpapers when there is a cheaper and more efficient way to get your news.
If newspapers dissappeared i wouldn't care at all. I don't use newspapers and they aren't important to me in any way. They are just a waste of money. In the future i will continue to just get my news off the internet, it's just so much easier. I' m sure some people will miss them, and alot of jobs will be lost, but it will just be one more old thing that's been replaced. It's just the way the world works.

3 topics

Sports
I enjoy sports and there are just alot of controversial things in baseball. In baseball alone tehre are many things such as steroids to write about. Steroids in general is a heady topic. It is everywhere, in the olympics, and in professional sports.

Terrorism
Terrorism is a huge deal. Not only is it very scary and dangerous, it is a real life problem. There are crazy people all over the world who just want to see the world crash. They dont care about people and i find that interesting. I would like to learn about people's motives for killing.

Torture
Torture is very controversial. Some people would say its very necessary to idk stop terrorism or get answers. I dont really think it's that necessary but there are instances where answers are needed. I mean sure its cruel but they aren't good people in the first place. This topic would be interesting to learn about.

Steroids in baseball

Allan Doherty, The Primadonna of Primobolan, Steroids in Baseball, February 7, 2009, March 3, 2009, steroidsinbaseball.net/articles/rodriguez1.html

Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two different steroids in an 2003 anonymous drug test, and hwo he got in trouble for a supposed "anonymous" drug test is beyond me. In his 2003 season A-rod was the MVP of the American league and Home Run leader and he is even supposed to become the home run king by the end of his ten year contract with the yankees.

Alex was actually on the same steroids that Barry Bonds took, and reportedly Barry didn't test positive for the steroid in 2003. This raised the question, how many people didn't even get caught? How many people made it past the steroid tests? Many baseball players took steroids, whether they were pitchers and hitters. The whole steroid era was messed up, and if they planned on enforcing rules on steroids they should have tested for them more intensly. You can't just make rules and not plan on enforcing them. Competative edge won over in baseball and it really is the commisioners fault.



Allan Doherty, Kirk Radomski's "Bases Loaded", Steroids in Baseball, February 2, 2009, March 3, 2009, http://www.steroidsinbaseball.net/articles/radomski.html

Kirk Radomski's "Bases Loaded", is a book that describes the underhanded world of professional baseball. He describes the commisioners direct disregard of steroids and the media's hush hush attitude. "I think what Mark McGwire has accomplished is so remarkable, and he has handled it so beautifully, we want to do everything we can to enjoy a great moment in baseball history."- Bud Selig.



Allan Doherty, The Mitchell Report, Steroids in Baseball, March 3, 2009, http://www.steroidsinbaseball.net/mitchellreport.pdf

For more than a decade there has been widespread illegal use of anabolic steroids
and other performance enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball, in violation of federal law and baseball policy. Club officials routinely have discussed the possibility of such substance use when evaluating players. Those who have illegally used these substances range
from players whose major league careers were brief to potential members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. They include both pitchers and position players, and their backgrounds are as diverse as those of all major league players.

Allan Doherty, Mark McGwire's Final At Bat, Steroids in Baseball, December 5, 2006, March 7, 2009, http://www.steroidsinbaseball.net/articles/mcgwires_final_at_bat.html

This goes to show hwo people who took steroids are going to have a hard to get into the hall of fame. People dont care about stats once people know who took steroids. People are now looking to exclude people who have taken steroids from the Hall of Fame and some great baseball players will never even have the chance to be a Hall of Famer because of a mistake that they made

Allan Doherty, Baseball's Integrity is in the Cellar, Steroids in Baseball, December 6, 2006, March 10, 2009, http://www.steroidsinbaseball.net/articles/baseballs_integrity_in_cellar.html

Bud Selig has been a joke of a commisioner. He never actually did his job and he has ruined the integrity of baseball. He has literally been worthless. Vincient Fay actually made a steroid and drug ban in 1991 because of a potential problem. Selig a past owner was just interest in making money for the league and for the owners.

Allan Doherty, Balco Timeline, Steroids in Baseball, March 10, 2009, http://www.steroidsinbaseball.net/balco.html

This timeline shows the effect of steroids in not only baseball but all sports. Many high profile athletes took steroids to get an edge over the competition. Even though all these sports had anti-doping agencies, it didn't make a difference. Steroids are just too easy to get ahold of and there are too many drugs to try and test for.