Government-current-events

=**2011-12 Current Event Links and Videos**= Current issues from the 2011-12 school year including the summer of 2012


 * [|Summer 2012 Current Events Blog Click Here]**

**Election of 2012:**
Barack Obama (D) vs. Mitt Romney (R): This race is basically big government (Obama) vs. small government (Romney). Come fall of 2012, the race will heat up.

**Foreign Policy:**
A look in America's involvement in foreign affairs. [|Problems with Pakistan]

**America's Problems in Society:**
A look at some of the major issues in our culture and society in 2012 including an exclusive by John Stossel on freeloaders in America and Bill O'Reilly's opinion on a lesson to learn from Whitney Houston and the drug culture in America. Click here

America's growing entitlement mentality: [|Click here] Issue with Planned Parenthood employee in Texas counseling a woman on having an abortion if she's not happy with the gender. [|Click here for the story]

Issue involving public schools and whether or not schools are adequately preparing students for the real world. [|Click here for the story]

**Occupy Wall Street Movement:**
An inside look at the OWS movement that began as a protest against the big banks but turned into a violent anti-Capitalism fringe group. Click here

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