It could happen to anyone — you had one too many beers, forgot to turn on your headlights on the way home and got stopped by police. Next thing you know, you’re in the county jail, grimacing into a camera — your very first “mugshot.”
On Tuesday, Stevie Nicks told the Herald Scotland that she turned to the HBO series “Game of Thrones” to cope with the death of her mother and a nasty bout of pneumonia. She was crippled with grief, and she told the Herald she couldn’t leave her house for nearly five months. In that time period, she immersed herself in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy world of Westeros and wrote poems about the characters — some of the titles “On Jon Snow,” “On Arya” and “On Cersei and Jaime,” she said.
We Americans are in a bad mood about our nation and our public life. Three-quarters say the country is on the wrong track. Some of us may be especially angry at the current Congress, at President Barack Obama — or both — but the roots of our discontent go deeper than that.
In an unsurprising and opportune moment last month, an Iranian official snubbed yet another U.S president.
Welcome, October! Even though the government is shut down, we’re still turnt up.
We’ve been talking about some serious issues in this country lately — the government shutdown, what to do about the National Security Agency and how to make gun possession safer.
Just in time for Halloween, conservative group Generation Opportunity released a terrifying pair of video ads aimed to scare college students into opting out of Obamacare.
From 1982 to 2005, CNN’s well-known political debate program “Crossfire” was a centerpiece of American politics and media. The program featured two co-hosts, one liberal and one conservative, debating against each other and with one or two newsmaking guests — individuals of recent political importance.
Some years ago, a photograph of our planet was taken from a spacecraft hovering at the edge of the solar system. A faint, bluish speck, known as Earth, can be seen in the picture. Astronomer Carl Sagan commented on the “pale blue dot.”
On Sept. 5, 2012, then-Senate-candidate Elizabeth Warren, during a speech at the Democratic National Convention, told attentive audience members and people watching at home an inconvenient truth. She said the people of the American middle class feel like “the game is rigged against them,” and the truth was that they were right: “The system is rigged.”
The late poet and novelist Charles Bukowski has a quote that perfectly sums up our thoughts on Congress’ impasse regarding the continuing resolution.
Today is the day many have been dreading — the first day of the enrollment process for the Affordable Care Act. The hallmark legislation of the Obama Administration takes its first steps as we speak.
There is a very political debate within the world of sports centered on the relationship between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and student athletes and the fact that players, though they may be worth thousands of dollars, often live well below the poverty line while coaches, universities and the NCAA reap millions of dollars in profits off their backs.
During my junior summer in Gainesville, I started feeling a thirst for something other than college life.
Despite dozens of attempts to repeal it, key provisions of the Affordable Care Act — commonly known as Obamacare — go into effect Tuesday.
Once, I was an uninformed student.
Big Tobacco wants to increase cigarette sales in Florida, and they’re looking for Gators to help them do it.
Dear Gators,
Attention TV fanatics of America: the Kardashians have been officially dethroned by a new family of reality royals. The fellas of “Duck Dynasty” made history in August when their season 4 premiere became the most-watched reality telecast of all time. They had 11.8 million viewers, topping even the popular competition show “America’s Got Talent.”
Good news, folks! We have news that will cheer you up, even in the midst of an impending government shutdown. We’ll make a bold claim and say this news is even more heartwarming and inspiring than the bunny that adopted a group of piglets.
Solutions by The State News
