I finally got Haloscan comments! I have been trying everything I could think of for ages and nothing was working. I suspect that the problem was either that I had altered my blog template, or that I, in one of my unique moments of stupidity, messed up the system by deleting the post that Haloscan [...]

If you haven’t yet read my first post on Prop 73, please do so here.
The “Campaign for Teen Safety” organization opposed to Prop 73. But it is not just the name that is misleading. On their blog, they have “one teenager’s story”. You can read it for yourself, but in summary the entry says this:
The [...]

I have added a a poll to Stand Up and Speak Out. This poll is on your opinion of Proposition 73, which I thought would be an interesting topic. So, please share your opinion and vote!

My name is Katelyn Sills. (Updated)– I am a 16-year-old sophomore at Mira Loma public high school in Sacramento. I am in Mira Loma’s International Baccalaureate program, which is an honors program that I am hoping to graduate in. Besides having a blog, I am (beginning to be) involved in activities such as the [...]

There is a new song of the “week”. I saw Paul Wright play on Labor Day weekend, and it was one of the most fun concerts I have ever been to. Paul Wright plays what might be called acoustic hip-hop or maybe pop. I don’t know what it is, but I liked it [...]

Earlier today, the California State Assembly Committee on Health had a hearing on Proposition 73. I was unable to attend, of course, because of school, so I sent the next best thing: my mom.
Proposition 73, according to the hearing agenda, “amends the California Constitution to bar abortion… on an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after [...]

Today, a federal court judge ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article, the judge said that “the pledge’s reference to ‘under God’ violated school children’s right to be ‘free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.’” The main person behind all [...]

I came across this AP article in a local newspaper:
WASHINGTON – Gretchen Mohr has never earned a paycheck, but she knows enough to get worked up about what teachers make. So she wrote to President Bush.
“We couldn’t live without them,” she wrote. Teachers are “paid like dirt. It’s disgraceful.”
Strong words from a 10-year-old, but this [...]

In my required sophomore “Morality and Faith” class, we were talking about the “problems with ethics”. I thought this was really interesting because I had noticed these problems, but had never known that they had been identified and had a name. One of the ones we talked about and what I think is the biggest [...]

Instead of focusing on the real problem, liberals have been (yet again) blaming Bush. They say that Bush “appeared a day later than he was needed.” But needed for what? And exactly how would an “idiot” help? An editorial in the NY Times says, “He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for [...]