Current Events Articles for 9/26

Economist

We will be discussing ideology, parties, and elections in October. Obviously the TEA Party is going to have an impact on these mid-term elections. This article discusses the impact of the TEA Party on the Delaware primary election to fill Joe Biden's vacant seat in the Senate.

New York Times

This article is a year old, but students find it interesting to see the conflict in a federal system. I bet you never thought of football players as employees protected by state law.......

The Boston Globe

This "article" is very short. I want you to know all of these questions. More importantly, I want you to think about how they might be examples of federalism.

The New Republic

This article if from The New Republic. This is a very liberal magazine. However, it is a good overview of the past two years and addresses the question of polling, which is a topic we are discussing soon.

Summer Current Events Articles

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/28/kagan_hearings_will_set_tone_for_midterm_elections/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/28/brown_outpolls_kerry_obama/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/28/senator_robert_c_byrd_92_was_longest_serving_us_senator/

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0623/The-McChrystal-Rolling-Stone-article-the-story-behind-the-story

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/05/26_flub_question_on_us_independence/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/us/06guns.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/30/AR2010063003801.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062905209.html?sub=AR

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/12/3_political_seats_open_in_west_roxbury/

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/09/curb_on_gay_marriage_upended/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/12/AR2010071201655.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12whitman.html?ref=todayspaper

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/22regulate.html?_r=1&ref=politics

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/with-banking-question-everything/?src=mv&ref=business

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/education/21standards.html?bl

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/mass_legislatur.html?p1=News_links

http://www.economist.com/node/16541619?story_id=16541619

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/us/politics/28donate.html?_r=1&ref=politics

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/05/federal_judge_strikes_down_calif_ban_on_gay_marriage/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/politics/06prop.html?ref=politics

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/08/06/kagan_heads_to_high_court/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/08/14/protests_at_funerals_a_test_of_free_speech/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/13/judge_keeps_gay_marriage_on_hold___for_now/

http://www.scotusblog.com/blog/2010/08/14/prop-8-who-speaks-for-california/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/08/plans_for_new_mosques_drawing_protests_across_the_us/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/politics/28beck.html?_r=1&hp

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/08/28/running_hard_against_the_scott_brown_effect/?p1=News_links

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/us/politics/11stevens.html

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/04/patrick_holding_thin_lead_in_poll/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/31/obama_to_honor_troops_as_iraq_combat_mission_ends/

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/04/urban_violence_rarely_a_campaign_focus/

BLS in the News.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Watch this clip please. Think about how the government interacts with the issues brought up in this piece.

President Obama's Speech on the BP Oil Spill

This is the President's first Oval Office address to the nation since taking the Oath of Office. Pay attention to what he identifies as his responsibilities and what he is going to do with the Constitutional powers he has.

Summer Work

You may pick up the summer work packet the week of June 14 in my classroom Room 125. If you didn't get the packet, you can find it on the "summer assignment" page.