Posted on 04 April 2013
The same way we look at the ’60′s is the same way people will view our genraration decades from now. Remember and act in the year you are living now, because they are momentous ones. 30 or 40 years from now, you — along with young people, historians, politicians, bloggers (if they will even exist [...]
Posted on 28 March 2013
As the necessity to protect the United States from foreign cyber-attacks increases, citizens must be cautious of how the government approaches the matter. Nations are increasingly turning to cyber-warfare as a method to sabotage another nation’s civil, economic, and military infrastructure. Last week, for example, The New York Times examined a report detailing a hacking [...]
Posted on 08 February 2013
My first reaction to the lifting of the ban on military women in combat was similar to many others’: What a proud moment for our country! My approval slowly transformed into confusion after revisiting an article I read last semester: “Women Warriors” by Christine Sylvester. My confusion then morphed into steady disillusion, as Sylvester’s writings [...]
Posted on 29 January 2013
President Obama capped off his historic reelection with his second inaugural address on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. During his 20-minute address, he spoke about the founding principles of this nation and reminded us that “these truths may be self-evident but they are not self fulfilling.” According to him, the job of government is to [...]
Posted on 03 December 2012
In the name of academic improvement, lower expectations for minorities are institutitonalized. Well-meaning bigotry is still bigotry. Let’s backtrack. Florida and Virginia are two of more than 30 states who were granted waivers to the federal No Child Left Behind program. As it stood, No Child Left Behind — President George W. Bush’s signature education [...]
Posted on 09 November 2012
Barack Obama won the re-election for a second term as the President of the United States of America. Obama won 303 electoral votes against Governor Mitt Romney’s 206 votes, according to the Huffington Post. Hours before the announcement of President Barack Obama’s election victory, it seemed many USF students already knew who would win the [...]
Posted on 30 October 2012
I am the apathetic weight dragging this nation down. In two weeks, over 100 million Americans will cast their votes, and I will not be one of them. Both campaigns and their many acolytes on TV, Twitter, Facebook and street corners keep telling me that this is one of the most important elections in our [...]
Posted on 17 October 2012
As I turned on the television to tune into the first presidential debate of the 2012 election, I expected an impressive showdown between Romney Robo-Cop and the great American hope, President Obama himself. What I expected and what was delivered were so drastically different, at times I had to pinch myself throughout the debate. I [...]
Posted on 17 October 2012
As excited as I am about voting in my first presidential election, I am increasingly jaded with both the Republican and Democratic candidates for President. As a woman, LGBTQ ally and someone who managed to pass a high school economics class, backing the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket is not a sensible option. However I cannot, [...]