Bishops Play Defense

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577217181415407806.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories This article, by Louise Randofsky of the Wallstreet Journal recent arguments made by Catholic bishops, against Obama's new law for employers to provide contraceptives. The Catholic church argues that it is against their first amandment right to be required to provide these contraceptives, because it is agaisnt their religion. Being from a Catholic family, although I am not agaisnt contraceptives, I also do not agree with the new law, because it goes against my religion. If I do my research on this topic, I could research the situation more in depth, and also past ideas for laws that were challenged for the same reasons.

Accusations Break Reputations

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In this article, Peter Berkowitz, of the Wall Street Journal, discusses the acusations of Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who was accused of sexual assault, which turned out to have broken the school's system of confidentiality, and also ruined the quarterback's reputation and possibly future. In order to prevent this from happening at ye another school, Berkowitz argues that due process of law must be restored on campuses. If i choose to research this tpic farther, I could find other cases in which students have been wrongfully accussed, tarnishing their reputations.

Rights of Students?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-stevenson-20120205,0,3761024.story
This article, from the Chicago tribune, adresses the drug bust situation at our very own high school, Stevenson. The drug bust is controversial, mainly because students argue that their rights are being ignored by searches of cell phones. The question the article adresses: what are the true rights of students? If i choose to do my reasearch paper on this issue, I could discuss it with relevance to the issues at our own school, and also past court cases.

Page's Views

Based on his most recent columns, you can see that Clarence Page has liberal views. He believes in political correctness and respect to all different groups, he criticizes republicans , yet with respect. He wants all groups to be treated and seen equaly, which is why he probably wrote an artical on the TLC show about Muslims, because he believes they should be seen as average middle class Americans, and giving the same rights.

All- American Muslims

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-1214-page-20111214,0,1065749.columnIn his article this week, Clarence Page adresses the criticisms and boycots of the new TLC series, All American Muslims. After a Christian group boycotted the show because it did not show the "violence" of Islam, Page expresses his view, that the show is necesary. He believes the show wil help show the average middle class Muslim family in America, who is not violent, and help ease steryotypes, just as the Cosby show did years ago.

Naughty and Nice on Child Poverty

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-1211-page-20111211,0,5920008.column
In America today, there is a large poverty amongst the children, and different reforms are being made in order to support them. One argument is to give the children an oportunity to work, raise money, and learn, suggested by Newt Gingrich. In this article, Clarence page takes a stance on Newt Gingrich's speech on child poverty in America. He criticizes hi argument that we should give children the job's that adults could use. He also criticizes the assumptions Gingrich made when he says, "Contrary to Gingrich's notion that poor kids are exposed to "relatively few " people who go to work, most poor people work. Unfortunately, their work doesn't pay enough to lift them above the government's poverty line,"(Clarence) showing that Cingrich made statements about the poverty of aqdults without doing strong research. Although Clarence does criticize Ginrich's weak arguments, he does give him credit for adressing the poverty in America, unlike the other politicians.

Political Correctness

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-1127-page-20111127,0,4080411.column Columnist Clarence Page, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, wrote about political correctness this week, focusing on Michelle Obama's trip to Nascar to promote Joining Forces, a millitary family supportive group, which was gretted with "booing". Page argues that it is an outrage that politicians are booed and criticized with derogatory words, such as "uppity," as a way of showing political views.  Americans need to be more polite and politically polite to their politicians.