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I think that the media actually did something good this week in their reporting on Donald Trump’s religious values initiative. The media is supposed to be the watchdog of the government and report on their biased and corrupt practices. That is what CNN has done with this article, they lay out what Donald Trump has said and exposed the unconstitutionality of what he is saying and proposing as a policy. Our nation has the First Amendment to keep religion out of government decision making because they saw how corrupt a religious run government can be. For the leader of the country to be making statements like “ We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values" is a problem. I would be curious to see what secular purpose this would serve, or how a statement such as this does not cause excessive entanglement of the government in religion (which are components of the standard for the government to be involved in something religious). So good job CNN on reporting on

One single event killed 59 people and injured over 500 hundred more, it was an attack on the very fabric of America and our people. It was an act of terrorism, yet we do not hear the media use this term to describe the acts of the shooter in Las Vegas, why? Terrorism is defined as the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. If this definition is broken down piece by piece it fits the Las Vegas attack almost perfectly, except for that last piece “in the pursuit of political aims.” The issue that we are having right now is that we do not truly know what the shooter's motivation was. There is no debating that what happened was an unlawful use of violence against civilians. I have heard several smaller news sources and blogs call this an act of terrorism and said that the reason that the mainstream media is unwilling to call this incident an act of terrorism is because the shooter was a white male. This argument does

This week I want to talk about something a little different than the normal politics that we always get to discuss. This week we saw a lot of controversy in the news regarding the NFL players refusing to stand during the national anthem and taking knees to show their support for the inequality of treatment of minorities in America. The NFL has taken a stance that allows the players to do this, which is contrary to prior NFL action regarding the players taking political stances and showing their support for controversial causes on the field. Keeping on the subject of mass media we have seen some new commentary on this issue of inequality with many of the sports commentators now contributing to the debate and reporting on the issues. This is interesting because normally in these television programs the only thing discussed is the sport, but now they are introducing a true news aspect to some of the programming. The issue I see with some of this commentary that is being produced is t