Jordan Stearns

Website: http://justtheplan.wordpress.com

Bio: 14 year-old student from Maryland. Does blogging, podcast, basically the whole internet deal. Gives too much of a care about politics for his own good, but revels in it's controversy and intricacy.

A Personal Declaration — People under 18 should be able to vote!

Here’s an essay I wrote for English, a “Personal Declaration” about how people under 18 should be able to vote. Check out this and this for some more information/support. Hit “Read More” for my writing.

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Sal Mohamed Campaign Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWNu6B_lq4
The one and only Sal Mohamed presidential campaign ad.
salmohamedforpresident.org

15 year old’s Guantanamo story

In 2002, 15 year-old Omar Khadr was sent to Guantanamo bay after killing US serviceman Christopher Speer with a hand grenade in Afghanistan. Khadr is a Canadian citizen who left for Afghanistan in 1997 when he was ten. He reportedly went through an Al-Qaida training school for four years, and graduated at 15.On July 27, 2002, Khadr was involved in a skirmish with a group of US soldiers. The group that Khadr was in surrendered, but he jumped out from hiding and threw a hand grenade at the soldiers. He killed Speer and injured three others. Khadr was shot three times and captured by the remaining soldiers. He was not charged with anything, given no sentence, or even had a hearing. Read more

Obama doesn’t like Obama Girl?!

In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday the 20th, Barack Obama was finally confronted about the Obama Girl video.

The presidential hopeful is not in full support.

“I guess it’s too much to ask, but you do wish people would think about what impact their actions have on kids and families. This is part of the process of politics that can be difficult, (that) is making sure that your kids and your wife and your family are insulated from both things like this and what I suspect will be at some point some negative campaigning.”
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 2.0

The Senate passed the vote to expand the fine print of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last night. The vote tallied in at 60 - 28. 16 Democrats and Joe Lieberman (Independent) joined 43 Republicans in supporting the bill.

The changes to the bill include things such as not needing a warrant to monitor phone calls domestic, or international calls that are leaving the US. Emails may also be monitored. This will be conducted by the NSA.
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