Prohibition is a temporary thing to help give the government face. That way they can say, "oh, we did that, uh-huh, yep, no doubt about it, we have control." The junk always comes back stronger. The drug trade has its own economy, the more it is prevented, the more demand there is, and the less supply. This makes it extremely valuable.
The SOPA is causing much dispute from the people who make web products. I would personally hate to have SOPA go through. I value my privacy and Google already helps to control this problem. I don't think it will go through. There are too many people who don't want this to go through.
What makes Obama such a great president beyond the fact that he is democratic? I don't think any of the canidates are idiots, or they wouldn't have gotten this far. Obama COULD do a lot more but most likely won't as it is likely that he won't be reelected.
Link to a somewhat biased article about Obama's chances of reelection.
This is one of my favorite topics to talk about. When humans find something that's different than them, they try to create an illusion of similarity by forcing it onto others. This happens to animals all the time. "Humanizing". An act of evil to us may be survival to them.
This is the definition of humanizing
make or become human: to make something human or like humans, or become human or like humans