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In an article on Crooks and Liars, called " Bribery in Plain Sight: Trump Promises Needed Bridge 'After We Win ", Frances Langum expresses his discontent with Trump and his new proposal on fixing the I-10 bridge. The website does not give any insight into the author, but based on reading the article it can be known that the author is not credible, shown by his use of bias and opinions with little real evidence to back up his actual claim. He claims that Trump is morally corrupt for bribing to fix the bridge if he is re-elected, which based on the fact that is opinionated and not able to be proven, it is automatically discredited, although he does add in some interesting facts which help to persuade others to have similar opinions as his own. Due to this claim it can be assumed that the intended audience are readers who disapprove of Trump and his ways and desire the bridge to be fixed. Langum notes that the bridge had been built in 1952, "expected to last for 50 y

In the Los Angeles Times article, " States with the worst anti-abortion laws also have the worst infant mortality rates " Michael Hiltzik proposes a correlation between infant mortality and laws restricting or prohibiting abortion. Hiltzik uses statistics such as how Alabama, "tied for fourth-worth place in infant mortality" with a rate of "7.4 deaths per 1,000 live births" and with Georgia having "7.2, tied for seventh-worst" and these were both states that have enacted abortion restrictions recently. He attributes the restrictions on abortions to push women to find other methods to abort, which are usually very unsafe for the women and child. Another statistic used was the maternal death rate in Texas in 2010 "72 deaths per 100,000 live births" which rose to "148 deaths per 100,000 live births" by 2012, another statistic that is claimed to be correlated to the "state's closing of abortion clinics and cuts in funding

Continuing from Blog stage 5 commentary The question, 'Why was marijuana ever illegal?' has to be answered with knowledge and understanding of when this plant came into the people's hands in the U.S. According to Stephen Siff's article " The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History " marijuana was first cultivated for its property of hemp fiber, which was used for rope and clothing due to the fact it is a very strong material. However, people in the U.S. only started to practice the activity of smoking the plant after Mexican immigrants were practicing it. This is interesting because at first marijuana was called cannabis until Mexico popularized the name 'marihuana' across the nation. In an advertisement by a Vanity Issue magazine publisher, the "hashish candy" referring to marijuana was advertised as a treatment for "nervousness and melancholy" and was portrayed to be a "pleasurable and harmless stimulant." Durin

Commentary of Blog 5 https://oanhnggovt.blogspot.com/    There are two sides to this problem and everyone has a different opinion, however, I agree with Jeffrey Mays' comment on his article “DeBlasio Explains His Hesitance on Legalizing Marijuana” about "the US national government should not legalize the use of marijuana due to the severe threat addiction that the drug pauses to the young people" because it is true, a big problem about marijuana is that it can cause addiction to not only teenagers but instead all age groups. Marijuana has shown to be beneficial to a majority of people across the nation, for example, a lot of people have to take many medications because of an illness or disease and there are many negative side effects that come with all these different types of pills, yet marijuana can replace all these pills with no negative side effects. This is a big issue occurring today and there is a lot of controversy on this topic, although there are some b

The War on Drugs is over.   Yes you can guess who won… drugs. So why isn’t marijuana legal in all states already? In order for a state to legalize marijuana an attorney has to write the memos that provide basic guidelines for legalization, if the state met these guidelines then federal prosecutors would have to act upon. 6 out of 10 (62%) Americans support legalization of marijuana (doubled since 2000, 31%) then why is it not legal nationwide already? If a person living in Colorado is prescribed medical marijuana and has to move or travel to a different state that doesn’t prescribe marijuana then they will have a really hard time. So it doesn’t really make sense to make marijuana legal in some states but not the others.    It is time for congress to respect Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposal for S.420, which would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substance Act causing it to be descheduled and to be sold like alcohol. The main benefits of this would be, tax revenue for states and t

In this post I will be talking about the  Eskom  crisis: Why the lights keep going out in South Africa published by BBC on February 15, 2019. I decided to write about this post because I was attracted to the news headline containing South Africa which is where my parents grew up and where I lived for a few years. " Eskom  is one of the biggest power utilities in the world" being that it is in South Africa which is the biggest industrialized parts in Africa poses a huge threat. This article tells us why it is a threat and tells us why South Africa has these power cuts. It is not new to South Africa that these power cuts happen however it is new that they are happening so often now.  Eskom  has been forced to load shed which is a process to avoid excessive load on the huge generating plant and this is hurting the country in many ways like reducing business productivity and overall hurting the economy at large.  I think this article is good to read because it shows