Politics

In a Gallup poll recently, it found 81% believed the country is being governed wrong, 82% think all of congress should be re-elected, and a majority of Republicans and Independent voters said their constitutional rights are being threatened, while 25% of Democrats said the same thing. Inversely, while Bush was president, a majority of Democrats said their rights were under assault.

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The long-controversial Don't Ask Don't Tell law and policy will expire tonight at 12:01 EDT, early Tuesday morning. Once the law was repealed, the military began re-training all of its 2.2 million members on more diversity training.

The rank and file members of the military have long expressed views that allowing gays to openly serve in the military does not bother them, despite statements from military leaders and some conservative members of Congress that it would hurt the cohesiveness and military effectiveness of the fighting force.

Millions of people enjoy photography for both personal or professional reasons everyday.  But recently there has been an increase in law enforcement violating the constitutional rights of those photographers, prohibiting them from take legal and rightful pictures.  Below is an article from the ACLU's website, and TFNJ staff thought it would be helpful to photographers across the U.S.

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President Obama delivered his Jobs Plan speech today that he has previously said would put America back to work. And his plan relies in part on eliminating tax breaks that wealthy Americans and big corporations currently get.

"Do we keep tax loopholes for oil companies, or do we put teachers back to work?" Obama asked. "Should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires -- or should we invest in education and technology and infrastructure, all the things that are going to help us out-innovate and out-educate and out-build other countries in the future?"