Opinion/Editorial Articles
Introduction of the iPad chance
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Jan. 27 was a big day for techno-junkies. Steve Jobs, owner of Apple Inc., unveiled the company's new tablet - the iPad. Despite its questionable name, the iPad has the potential to do for interactive technology what the laptop did for work on the go. A great divide remains between students who have been in school consecutively since kindergarten and those who are returning to school after years of being in the workforce.
Reinvigorated Obama sends GOP
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President Obama's first State of the Union address showed the man at his best. Obama swung away with style, using humor and charm to disarm his critics. He placed the ball squarely in the GOP's court. If the Republicans don't want to, once again, become the party of no, it's time for them to shoot or pass.
No excuse for Notre Dame cartoon
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Notre Dame University has sparked much controversy over an anti-gay editorial cartoon that ran earlier this month in the student-run newspaper, The Observer. The cartoon depicted a personified handsaw telling a joke to a random man. The hand saw said, "What's the quickest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?" The handsaw's answer was "a baseball bat.
The end of Don't Ask Don't Tell?: Military policy costs taxpayers, reduces combat effectiveness
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With the passage of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law in 1993, the U.S. government slammed an ironclad door on the proverbial closet, discharging openly gay service members and alienating a legion of potential recruits. According to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Web site, more than 13,000 service members have been released under the law since its inception.
The end of Don't Ask Don't Tell?: In attempt to please the left, Obama swaps logic for politics
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President Obama has found himself pushing a number of agendas in his first year in office, including health care reform, the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and a recovery of the country's economy. But his latest political battle has taken on a much smaller, yet equally controversial, front.
Social networking makes twits of us all
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Well, I didn't come to dinner with my friends to sit on my phone all night," I overheard the middle-aged man saying as he sat at a local dining establishment. "More like a Crackberry. Ha," he murmured under his breath while his friend continued to stare at his phone.
ANTEBELLUM: Soulless
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Presented with a rare opportunity to step beyond my corporeal boundaries and a welcome chance to make some quick cash, I spent my Sunday night reviewing a performance by Lisa Williams - a self-professed clairvoyant. Williams was the star of two Lifetime network shows, Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead and Lisa Williams: Voices from the Other Side.
