Dr. Benjamin Carson's Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast

Extra Credit: Write a two paragraph analysis of this video...the first paragraph state what was the general message of Dr. Ben Carson's speech.....second paragraph state your viewpoints/opinion about what was said....each paragraph must be a minimum of 5 sentences....this assignment is due on the 13th February

Congressional Investigations

As we have learned not all powers that Congress possesses are not clearly stated in the Constitution but have grown over time out of necessity and are ruled "necessary and proper" for the effective management of government. Foremost of these powers, are the powers of oversight and investigation. The acts render by government officials and agencies can render suspicion due to illegal acts, scandal, immoral conduct, and threats to national security. Your objective is to explore some of our nations most high profiled investigations and find out what happened, who was involved, why is it a big deal to begin with? What were the consequences upon the nation because of the investigation.

You need to provide one initial post and comment at least once to one of your peers. Choose one of the investigations below.

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Watergate


http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/11/benghazi-terror-attack-select-committee-needed-to-investigate

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/11/benghazi-terror-attack-select-committee-needed-to-investigate

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/21/morning-bell-the-obama-investigations/

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-11/fbi-probe-uncovered-petraeus-affair-following-complaints

Raise Taxes or Cut Spending....Addressing our National Debt

You do not have to be a political head or a student of government to know that our country has a debt problem. At the moment our nation's national debt currently stands at about $16 trillion, which is more than the all of Europe combined. However, our nation seems to be divided on how to best tackle this problem. Your objective is to present an argument on what is the best solution for handling our nations debt and why. You need to make at least one initial post to the original question and one response to your peers. This will be graded in the same manner as all the previous posts. Your first post must be a minimum of a 150 words. YOU MUST IDENTIFY YOUR SOURCE....YOUR POST WILL NOT ACCOUNT UNLESS DONE!

Here are some links that can assist you in your analysis.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/cut-deficits-cutting-spending


http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/debt-crisis/


http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2012/10/21/raise-taxes-and-cut-government-spending-to-reduce-debt-not-really/

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/teda/cut-government-spending-%E2%80%93-no-tax-increases