This opinion piece was published in the Colorado University school paper this past Monday, just two days before the 66th anniversary of FDR's Executive Order mandating the internment of Japanese-Americans across the country.
You are sitting at your computer, typing an email. You would not give it a second thought...unless your email provider allowed the government to read all your emails. This is exactly what happens... Read More »
I came across an interesting CNN article today talking about how a majority of NYU students surveyed would give up their right to vote if they received free tuition.
Equally as important was the finding that young people are very involved in the campaigning process but fail to show up when and where it matters the most, aka. Election Day at the polls.
In a closed-door meeting Tuesday night, the University of California Regents announced a 5% increase in all executive salaries, with some executives seeing proposed increases as high as 33%. As mentioned in my previous blog, this occurred the same day that President Bush vetoed the College Opportunity & Affordability Act.
While the two are probably not connected, I find it very poignant that they did occur within hours of each other. Some may not realize that the failure to pass the College Opportunity & Affordability Act has left many middle class families in a difficult situation. On the one hand, they are not poor enough to receive financial aid and on the other hand, they cannot afford to send their children to a decent college even for an arm and a leg.
As we all remember from AP US History, President Johnson signed many pieces of progressive legislation into law during the Great Society. One of these bills may be argued to be the single most important bill regarding higher education in the history of the United States: The Higher Education Act of 1965. The act funds our public institutions of higher education across the country and allocates grants and low-interest rate loans for students who otherwise would not be able to afford to pursue the American Dream. Sounds great, right? Well, Congress needs to reauthorize it every few years and the last time they did so was in 1998. For all the non-math majors out there like myself, that was almost a decade ago! Read More »
Kay Steiger recently blogged about our generation being more isolationist than older generations.
I would fit the mold you just described above (sort of). Until we can fix our foreign policy, we have no business getting into other country's business.
Most people have a flawed understanding of affirmative action and that only fuels opposition. Many people think that if a White person (using race, but can apply to other sociological categories as well) and a minority apply to the same university, the minority should be admitted. Affirmative action says that if a White person and minority apply to the same university and are both equally qualified, the minority should be admitted (some cases also implement a quota system). Read More »
Good news: a House bill that would allow the president to continue spying on American citizens for another 4 months failed today.
Bad news: a similar Senate bill that would allow him to do so for another 6 months is likely to pass with even enough votes to override a presidential veto.
Bad News: we're 17 days into Executive Order 13438 and still there is not even a slight commotion in the mainstream news about this almost verbatim contradiction of the Fifth Amendment. Even if the mainstream news were to cover this, would it be possible to get a 2/3 majority vote in Congress to overturn the EO?
Good news: House Resolution 333 (Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors) has gained 2 more co-sponsors, bringing the total to 16.
Question: Is invading a sovereign country ever justified? There's obviously Iraq, lots of talk about Iran, and some rumbling about Pakistan.
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