Much has been made of the fall of the Roman Empire in the media over the last few years, especially as our own American empire has come under deservedly intense scrutiny.
It’s the beginning of the semester, which means spending an inordinate amount of time consulting ISIS, deciphering syllabi and griping about Rec Sports’ intramural department.
The Editorial Board would like to respectfully tell Charlie Crist he can keep his tax-free holiday.
There are a good number of people who believe in the hypothetical situation that torture is justified in the ticking time bomb scenario. That is, a nuclear or biological weapon is about to detonate and kill thousands, maybe millions of people.
When I saw a link for the spanking new “race and ethnicity” guidelines from the U.S. Census Bureau plastered across the ISIS homepage, I had to check it out.
The Editorial Board would like to encourage Student Government senators to do the right thing. Just this one time. Please.
Google announced Monday that it will stop censoring Web content on its Chinese site after the Gmail accounts of human rights activists were hacked, and the Editorial Board thinks it’s about time.
When Time Magazine declared the age of irony dead following the Sept. 11 attacks, its conclusion was right, even if it was working from faulty premises.
As the song from the musical “Avenue Q” states, “Everyone’s a little bit racist sometimes. Doesn’t mean we go around committing hate crimes...Maybe it’s a fact we all should face: everyone makes judgments based on race.” I don’t care whether you’re black, white, Hispanic, Asian, biracial or multiracial. At some point in your life, I’m sure you’ve had racist thoughts. If you’ve read this far, you probably agree (though wish you didn’t) or shaking you’re head in outrage because you’re a P.C., apologist liberal who’s a closeted racist. For a while now, we’ve allowed liberal Democrats to define racism. When it benefits them politically, they’ll throw the label at someone, but what happens when it’s one of their own? They quickly excuse to save the squeaky-clean facade they perpetuate.
Will Penman’s Monday column on same-sex marriage was a peculiar addition to an Alligator issue that included articles on the Dove World Outreach Center, gay adoption in Utah and commemorations of the civil rights movement. Although self-labeled as a man who “can’t figure out what to think about gay marriage,” his mocking ramblings about “not hearing much from the cousin-marriage people,” which also snipe that “it’s very impolite at UF to oppose gay marriage, you know,” show a trivializing ignorance toward the struggle of homosexuals to gain acceptance in contemporary society. Our Student Body’s support of LGBTQ students should not be mocked but cherished in a world where some nations put those convicted of homosexuality to death.
The protest that took place outside of the Dove World Outreach Center illustrates how the demand for tolerance and acceptance in today’s society goes too far. The protesters have their beliefs about God and how a religious organization should act, but the church has its own beliefs. Protesting the beliefs of another group makes little sense to me.
Faux—er, Fox News announced today that Sarah Palin will be added to its list of on-air personalities, and the Editorial Board can’t decide whether to ask, “What the hell?” or nod knowingly.
I’m starting to cringe whenever I hear “carpe diem.”
The Editorial Board is no stranger to household pests — if the rats living in our ceiling aren’t bad enough, we’ve recently developed an ant problem that won’t go away no matter how many ant bombs we put around the office.
“I have never seen outright hatred for a president like I have seen with Obama,” is a quote from Paul Murty’s guest column on Friday. I would like to disagree. First off, the only president our generation can compare President Obama to is President Bush
I found a chart online recently consisting of two pictures. The top picture had a map of the United States with states highlighted where gay marriage was legal: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire. Pretty simple picture — five states. The picture below it was the same map but with a lot of states colored. That one? States where it’s legal to marry your first cousin.
Remember that YouTube video starring the overly concerned Britney Spears fan begging the American public to just leave the pop princess alone?
It was a banner week for bipartisan tomfoolery, culminating on Friday and coming from both Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele and Democratic strategist James Carville.
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