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California just made a huge positive step in Healthcare

Governor Jerry Brown made California the fourth state in the US on Monday to allow physician assisted dying. Yes, only the fourth, and it's disappointing that the numbers (or the lack of) overshadow the real achievement. Everyone has the right to live, and everyone should have the right to die. Of course life is sacred, but the opponents of this law must not seriously think that California's true intentions are to have a genocide. They simply just want to help those people who have no hope of a cure, and are suffering. That's it, there is no story here, Everyone is allowed to make their decisions about their life and body. If you can go and get an abortion from a professional, you should also be able to go to your doctor to die. They are there to help you and to lessen your pain. In any way possible. Of course we support that background checks must take place, and several doctors (including psychologists) should sign off before you are allowed to die. You sho...

Clinton and Trump's Super Week

Politico Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the big winners on Super Tuesday. Both the Republican and Democratic frontrunner made their lead stronger, as each won 7 states. It looks like it will be Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump in the November general election. Can anyone stop them still? It's possible, however the likelihood of that happening is decreasing day by day. It looks like America narrowed its choice down. The question now is, who will you support now? Hillary Clinton knew it was going to be a big night for her, but she was still cautious. Why? Because Bernie Sanders is showing no signs of a slow-down. He is still dangerously close to her, but it looks like she is able to keep the lead steadily. However, she needs to work on gaining his voter's support. It is not guaranteed at all, that if he drops out, that they will all just flock behind her. Although Trump has the same problem. Nevertheless, she is in a very good place right now, but still far fro...

New York President

Daily Mail New York City is a great city. In several ways it is perhaps the greatest city in the world. Everyone must go there at least once in their lives. New York is also big and very diverse. That is how it is possible that four of the main (if not all) candidates for President are from New York. On the Republican side, Donald Trump is the epicentre of everything New York. No question about that. On the other side, Hillary Clinton was a Senator from New York while Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, and he couldn't deny it. And now that it seems that Michael Bloomberg could join the race as an Independent, it can be declared that all the main candidates in 2016 are from New York. This is crazy, a country of 323 million people, will all choose their next president from one city. It's like a local election. So what makes New York the perfect place for a candidate? We are not sure. It may be the money and the winning atmosphere. Or all the famous and influential ...

Sanders's Big Night

PC: Patrick T. Fallon The first Democratic Debate of 2016, and the last one before voting starts in Iowa on February 1st, happened on Sunday night in Charleston, South Carolina. The debate was focused around Bernie Sanders. He still leads in New Hampshire, he is now at least tied with Hillary in Iowa, and nationally he is closing in on her too. America is feeling the Bern, and Sanders hopes that the South will too soon. After the vibrant debate on guns, Wall Street and ISIS, the campaigns now are courting black voters as everyone is trying to win Iowa. Hillary is traditionally polling better with the black voters, and Sanders is from an almost all-white state, but there are signs that this is changing. And Sanders doesn't have to win a majority of this voting block, but for the March primaries it will be enough if he can just chip away a sizeable part from Clinton's support. Everyone was waiting for the fireworks. And they got it. Bernie Sanders has been creeping up ...

2 debates, multiple winners

Scott Olson/Getty Images Over the last couple of days there have been two Presidential debates in America. The Republicans met for the fourth time in Wisconsin on the 10th, while the Democrats met yesterday for the second time in Iowa. Both of the debates were significantly different from the ones they previously had, and it was interesting to see how the dynamics change. But at the end of the day, there are always winners and losers, and we were there to see it. Here is what happened: In the Republican debate, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz stood out. For Rubio it was the second consecutive debate in which he performed really well, gave clear policy answers and had smart comebacks for those attacking him. His chances look better and better everyday, and there is no an indication that he was able to keep his momentum going on from the strong debate performances on his campaign stops. He is rising in the polls and is getting more and more donations. Rubio is still comi...

Marco Rubio crushes it

Mark J. Terrill/AP President Marco Rubio? Yes. Last Night the third Republican debate occurred, this time in Colorado. A lot of question were answered as it was a crucial night for many of the candidates. One thing is clear though, Marco Rubio is now the biggest hope of the party, and he should be chosen as the nominee.  It is also easy to see that several of the other candidates should withdraw, to allow for a clear, policy driven debate between the serious candidates, like the Democrats have been able to do. Unfortunately however, there is only a little possibility that the field will thin out enough in time before Iowans will go to the polling stations. Jindal, Pataki, Santorum and Graham should drop out now. The miracle is not going to happen for them. The participants of the undercard debate showed again why they are still at that debate, and not at the main one. It is time to go. We also think that Governor Huckabee and Senator Paul should follow them, as they ...

Hillary's turning point

Ethan Miller/Getty Images Hillary Clinton had a terrible summer. No one would have expected this. Just absolutely  dreadful. But now she is back, and she looks stronger and more confident than ever. She just had the best week of her campaign, and probably the best week in the past few years. The Vice President announced on Wednesday that he is not running for President in 2016. Joe Biden ended months of speculation, after he confirmed that he is not running despite a heavy buzz for him and relatively high polling numbers. Over the past six months there was heavy speculation regarding his candidacy, but Biden now declared that he had ‘run out of time’. Most analysts said that the latest probable time that Biden should have entered the race was before last week’s debate. Biden’s son, Beau, died in May from cancer and wished that his father join the race. Over the summer there were lots of positive signs of a Biden candidacy, and it is clear that he was heavil...

Hillary won the first Debate, but Bernie delivered too

Credit: www.slate.com Hillary Clinton won the first Democratic debate on Tuesday in Las Vegas, but Senator Bernie Sanders also performed well and delivered what he intended. In many ways, this debate was even more anticipated than the Republican ones, and it certainly gave us a lot of answers. Emails. Joe Biden. Benghazi. Outsider Politicians. Wall Street. Guns. Hillary Clinton had the most to loose last night, and Bernie had the most to win. And they both delivered to an extent. But the former Secretary of State came away from the CNN debate as the candidate who had the best night. Clinton is clearly very smart and knowledgeable, she gives clear and contextual answers and is a highly skilled debater. She performed very well. But it was together with Bernie that they controlled the stage. They had the most time to talk, and everyone payed attention to them. Poor O'Malley. While Clinton performed the best overall, Sanders received the biggest cheers from the ...

Hillary: It's time to panic

Not everyone will agree, but it may be time for Hillary to finally seriously panic about this race. Months have passed since her email scandal began, and since the rise of Bernie Sanders, and she is still not handling it that well. And the future doesn't look all that great either. Hillary has got to stop the tide. And she is trying. She is giving more interviews and she is out there more, b ut Bernie is still the one that has the momentum. Some would argue that even Joe Biden has more momentum than Hillary's campaign. Hillary's campaign doesn't seem to be focused, it's like they are in denial. Let's look at polling closer. Hillary Clinton is losing to Jeb Bush in Michigan. In Michigan. If a Democrat can't take Michigan, there are some real problems here. Moreover, she is only barely beating Trump there. Hillary has clearly slipped in the polls. On a national scale too, she has got some major problems. In the latest poll, she got 33% of the vot...

Carly Fiorina has done it again, but this time at the big kid's table

Carly Fiorina out shined everyone once again. Wednesday saw the second Republican Presidential Debate take place at the Reagan Library in California. It was a glorious yet terrifying setting, as the candidates stood in front of President Reagan's plane, with which he effectively ended the Cold War.  Once again there were two debates, and once again there were two clear winners. In the second tier debate, a surprise victor emerged, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. No one expected this, but it was a very clear victory in the end for the veteran. And in the main event of the night, there were several interesting performances, but Carly Fiorina clearly collected her second victory of the debate season. If you didn't do it so far, you definitely have to watch out for her from now on. Let's start with the earlier debate and say that it was much better than expected. It was a huge opportunity for the four participants, as they now had more ...