Greetings from across the pond. I may be abroad in the UK this semester, but even the Atlantic Ocean can’t separate me from the farce that is the GOP nomination saga. Which reminds me…
In a recent WUPR column, Ben Cristol finds...
January 31, 2012 1:17 pm / 4 comments
Over winter break, I spent some time with my grandparents, both of whom are lifelong Democrats. They bleed blue and have never voted for a Republican candidate. Despite this, they are less than pleased with President Obama’s performance. ...
January 25, 2012 2:58 pm / 1 comment
I’m usually the first to complain (smugly, I’ll admit) about how much the mainstream media fixates on crime stories. By the same token, I don’t like when preachy journalists denounce the media for covering crime stories, thereby...
November 16, 2011 9:18 pm / 55 comments
Democrats blaming right-wingers for lax gun regulation fail to see the bigger picture.
I want to say something about the Giffords shooting that so far no one else has said, least of all Democrats. It wasn’t, as many left wing pundits...
January 19, 2011 6:50 pm / 1 comment
Fact: Glenn Beck is a brilliant political strategist. We might all hate Beck, just like we hated Goebbels, and Lenin, and Mao, but we still had to admit they sure knew how to speak, and how to game their political systems. Beck does a lot...
November 16, 2010 12:41 pm / no comments
“President Obama himself has engaged in class warfare trying to separate Americans”.
“[The Democrats are] running campaigns against the American people”.
These two quotes, the latest to make political news from Texan Senator...
November 13, 2010 12:39 am / no comments
Art by Amelia Fawcett
In 2007, the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international scientific body that reviews and assesses studies related to climate change, released a report that stated, “Warming...
May 3, 2010 6:39 pm / 2 comments
Neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan news is dead. It’s just not a good business model anymore. MSNBC and Fox News have proven this by kicking CNN around in the ratings more and more each year. However, this isn’t really a new problem. ...
May 3, 2010 6:37 pm / no comments
Depending on where you get your news, this upcoming Congressional election is, well, up in the air. CNN Headline News, after showing a number of highly relevant YouTube videos, will likely give a BREAKING NEWS update about how the election looks...
March 21, 2010 2:07 pm / no comments
A few weeks ago, Google stunned the world by announcing that it would consider withdrawing from China completely as an Internet server. For a number of reasons, Google’s statement was a shocker. For years, the company has steadily and firmly...
March 20, 2010 5:24 pm / no comments