Commentary on What Happen'd To Freedom of Speech and Expression

While reading Lonestar Political Chat's blog I found an interesting entry about South Park creators receiving death threats from a Muslim extremist group due to showing the prophet in an episode. South Park is famous for its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor on a wide range of topics which sometimes includes things that could be offensive to some people.

I agree with the blogger and SA express editor Jonathan Guwitz about making fun of the Islamic religion, or any other religion, should not be an issue. This is America and the cartoon South Park is just expressing the first amendment with the freedom of speech/expression. I believe if the Muslim extremist group finds this particular show offensive they do not have to watch it and could just change to channel to watch something else. This issue is ridiculous especially sending out death threats to the two creators of the show. If every offensive remark or comment received a death threat we would all have a few because in every show, movie, and song there is something that offends somebody in the world, because of the fact that we cannot please everybody.

Tanning salons feel targeted by feds

“New health care law imposes tanning tax to help fund indigent care.” As the new healthcare law has recently passed it added a new tanning tax.  The new tax will enable more revenue for the uninsured Americans.  Tanning salons feel as if the feds are picking on the little guy because they just don’t have the money for this new tax. Originally the tanning tax was not part of the health care bill (Obama Plan) and instead it was a tax on cosmetic surgery, but dermatologists persuaded the senators to substitute the tanning tax for the cosmetic surgery tax. 

I am completely against the tanning salon tax.  I am not a regular tanner and I have a free tanning bed at my apartment complex but I believe this tax is unfair.  They are targeting the little guys, why substitute a tanning tax for a cosmetic surgery tax, if anything they should target cosmetic surgery.  Since the goal for taxes are to create revenue for uninsured Americans they would receive more money through the taxation of cosmetic surgery because it occurs often and cost much more than a visit at a local tanning salon.