This is a response to Travis Hornsby's column from Monday called "Why I am no longer liberal-minded." I would much rather spend my post-work hours doing something relaxing rather than writing a guest column, but I must do something about the rage headache your column has caused me.
As Homer Simpson would say, "Woo Hoo!"
In a recent response column to my piece on Social Security, the writer suggested that I came from a wealthy background and loved to walk all over the poor to get ahead.
It has almost become axiomatic that terrorism does not stem from religious doctrine. Rather, the violence espoused by Muslim militants or preachers such as Anwar al-Awlaki remains rooted in political frustration.
The simple truth is that the repercussions of illegal immigration can be detrimental to our country. When dealing with this issue, we must keep our national self-interests in mind.
There is a very interesting thought experiment, widely referred to as the "Trolley Problem," which poses the question of whether to save a group of five people by diverting a trolley away from them toward a man laying in a hammock who would be killed instead.
Travis Hornsby got a few things wrong about Social Security in his Monday column.
After reading his opinion piece on Social Security Monday, I was baffled when I saw that Travis Hornsby was a senior majoring in statistics and economics.
This is in response to Sami Main's editorial "Vegetarian Options Should Not Be Feared." While applauding Sami's address to an often overlooked issue, I'd like to take it a step further and say that vegetarian options should be revered.
Republicans: Your prayers for victory in 2012 just might have been answered.
Why are people scared by vegetarian food choices?
Trick or Treat?
A few weeks ago, presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and was labeled as a far-right extremist. While his choice of words was indelicate, Social Security is a deeply flawed system that will not exist in its current form for anyone in college right now.
The term "big government" has been loosely bandied about for several decades. Certainly it has been used to point out the over-spending by elected officials and their entities, something that now not only disturbs many of those in the higher tax bracket but also many people hurting in today's staggering economy.
Since the ‘90s, it's been a common right-wing practice to have a bake sale intended to demonstrate the inherent unfairness of using race as a factor in college admissions. White men get charged $2 for the brownies or muffins the Republicans baked to prove their point, while other races get charged a sliding scale based on the Republican protesters' perception of the severity of racial bias against different groups.
It has been nearly a year since Tyler Clementi, former Rutgers student, committed suicide after his roommate streamed an intimate video of Clementi and another man. I remember when I first read about the tragedy in the news. I didn't understand - how did this happen? What caused Clementi so much pain that he had to end his life?
A recent phenomenon in the marketplace has become a big deal in the past couple of years. The trend I am referring to is the flood of "green" products on store shelves.
She's radical. She's outspoken. She's amusing. She's insane. She's even moderately attractive. She is, quite simply, absolutely entertaining.
Ever since I was a little kid, I have been told that plants needed Miracle-Gro to grow big and strong.
I have a humble rebuttal to last Tuesday's column "Politics Needs Better Female Role Models" by Sami Main. I reject the premise that today's young women do not have anyone to look up to.
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