New blogs go here

Week 5 of second 9 weeks...

Thanksgiving posts!

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/11/lawful-or-awful-scholars-comment-on-obamas-immigration-action/

Check this out for Immigration discussion...

ISIS is in the news again... how should we deal with it?  Could the lame duck Congress make a difference?

Week 2 of new 9 weeks

Challenge: find a political cartoon and analyze it!  These are often found in the opinion or editorial sections... Some of them are hilarious.

New 9 weeks! Woo hoo

LOTS of news this week with midterm elections on Tuesday! I want to see what you can find :)

Week 8 posts

All new posts go here!

Week 6

Suggestion: Find an article about a close senatorial race- about 1/3 of the chamber is up for reelection and if the Democrats lose the majority it would have major effects on Obama's effectiveness in moving legislation through during the next 2 years of his tenure.

Week 5 posts

Week 4 posts!

Loving what I'm seeing in these posts- keep it up, guys :)

On to week 3!

Can you find anything interesting about the midterm elections coming up?

Week 2 Blogs

Just remember, ONE of your blogs must come from an OpEd :)  Hopefully we have worked out our kinks in the system... happy blogging!

First blog of the year- due Friday 9/5/14

Remember that ONE of your blogs should come from an OpEd--- NYTimes has great ones :)

LAST BLOG OF THE YEAAAAR!!!!!! You may do 2 additional posts for extra credit points, if you so desire :)

Week 6

Week 5

Week 4 Posts

Check out what the Supreme Court said about Shuette v. Coalition to defend affirmative action!

Week 3

Midterm elections are in full swing- look into articles related to it :)

Week 2 posts

Welcome to the last 9 weeks- Now it's countdown time for the AP Exam!!!

CBN TV - France's Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State   If you're interested in seeing some current trends in France due to their strong welfare state check this out and then discuss if you think that the US is on a similar path??

Week 8 Posts

Week 7 Posts

- There is A LOT going on with Ukraine-Russia... Thoughts on US involvement?
- Ohio is flirting with proposing medicinal marijuana laws... thoughts?

Week 6- Ready, Set, Discuss :)

Week 5 posts (This 9 weeks is flying!!)

4th week blogs!

Last week's posts were all really great, guys!  Keep up the engaging discussion :)

Week 3 posts:

Idea's for news searches: 
Protests in Ukraine
Debt Ceiling
US/Russian relations/Olympics

Week 2 of Second Semester

Start of the second semester! Week one blogs go here!

Happy New Year blogs go here! (week 8)

Perhaps this weeks poll question will give you a starting point on something to research for our blog discussion...