President Obama's gun control defeat speech

Guns, Boston and President Obama’s renewed passion and fury.

“So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.”- President Barack Obama (17th April, 2013) I would estimate that President Obama’s mental state of euphoria lasted for approximately five minutes after it was concluded he won re-election late evening on November 6th. Something is always happening in America, and if that something gets back to the President, it is not always going to be something positive. Walking away from the podium, an aid was probably immediately in his ear to update him on what he missed while on stage for those 30 minutes of immersing congratulation. Just over a month after this victory, a tragedy so unexplainable, unimaginable and inhuman occurred. A shooter (whose name really does not matter) burst into Sandy [...]

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I’ve decided to distinguish articles between just a normal blog post and a ‘longread’ article, by doing this I’m trying to showcase my best writing. This means I designed a layout especially for longread articles. The main features of this new layout are: 1) narrow, centered paragraphs; 2) larger Gentium Book serif font; 3) large and distinguishable ‘first letter’ and 4) ‘popout’ elements that take up the usual width like images, quotes and videos. I think this new layout looks pretty good and you can see an example over at this latest article, be sure to check out all of my longreads here.

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David Tennant and Matt Smith
David Tennant and Matt Smith pose for a photograph after a table read for the upcoming 50th anniversary special of ‘Doctor Who’. I can’t wait for this episode to air in November as David Tennant will always be my Doctor.
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Supreme Court and Rainbow Flag

Happy parents are important, even gay ones! The fight for equality.

With the respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone.- Former Vice President Dick Cheney (2004) I usually would not use quotes from former Vice President Dick Cheney to support my arguments, but it is an example of an issue which has slowly begun to break down the barriers between liberals and conservatives. This is a very important step in achieving equality. MotherJones has a timeline of politicians coming out in support for same-sex marriage. Over the next two days The Supreme Court of the United States will be debating Proposition 8 and the Defence of Marriage Act, both of which I briefly wrote about when England approved same-sex marriage in the House [...]

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