Safety in Disarmed Hands?

Remember your last elementary school? Whimsical recollections of finger-paint, buddy learning and edible glue are typical. Not so for the kids of Newtown Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary.  Their last memories of the now closed Sandy Hook Elementary school facility are of smoky hallways, booming gunshots, slain acquaintances and mind numbing terror. The contradiction between what happened at Sandy Hook and what elementary should be is extreme enough to call for reform but are we doing the right thing?
Are we really protecting the students of tomorrow or are we setting the stage for something worse than the horror of what happened at Sandy Hook?

Peace Between Israel and Palestine?

Israel and Palestine have made controversial headlines again. After many years of conflict dating back to biblical times, Palestine has been recognized as a " U.N. Non-Member Observer State." On November 29th, one hundred twenty eight votes conquered the nine opposing votes against Palestine being recognized as a state, while forty five others entirely abstained from the vote. America was one of nine to stand by Israel, even while many have turned their backs against them. To many this may seem as something positive, but to a few this is only the beginning of many relevant things to come.