It really is funny how time flies. I don’t think any of us realize how little time we have left at a particular station in life until it’s right upon us – and now, with unemployment pending and graduation in a few weeks, I’m starting to realize that myself. Perhaps the thing I’ve liked the Read More
Thanksgiving is dead. Or at least, it will be if the greedy fat cats who have marked it for death have their way. Those greedy fat cats include the multibillionaire Walton family, the owners of Walmart, which has announced that it will begin its Black Friday sales at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The Waltons, Read More
Do we have freedom of speech in the land of the free? “What kind of question is that?” you might ask. America is known for its free press and free people, who have the right to tell anybody, even the President of the United States, to go straight to hell. You might be able to Read More
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So goes a quote commonly attributed to the British author George Orwell. I don’t disagree with Orwell – in fact, it’s time we had more people willing to tell the truth about the society that we live in today. We live in Read More
As someone who will graduate a little more than a month from now with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, I can tell you that I’ve heard so much about how important it is for students to vote that I now literally cringe at the sales pitch we all get come election time. Of Read More
The government shutdown, which has plagued the headlines for more than two weeks, has finally ended, and with it, the search for answers begins. Who won? Who lost? How did something like this happen? Will it happen again? It’s pretty clear who won and who lost this fight, if you ask me. The “winners” were Read More
Growing up in rural western Kentucky, I never thought much about Columbus Day. It just wasn’t a big deal for me, nor was it for a lot of my classmates; we never got the day off anyhow. I remember the stories of course: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” and all that jazz. We Read More
It has been a little more than a week since the Republicans shut down the federal government in an attempt to delay Obamacare, and they show no signs of letting up, as of this writing. Why should they? The Republican leadership, unlike the president, knows its history. Nothing makes this more obvious than President Barack Read More