In recent years, women and people of color have reached the highest leadership positions in every regard. From politics to corporate America, those who have fought against social injustice for so many years have broken every glass ceiling and made unprecedented historical achievements.
In what might be the most awkward conversation the GOP has had since the Log Cabin Republicans came out to the religious right, Representative Davis, the retiring Republican from Virginia, said his party was at risk of becoming a regional party of rural, southern whites.
Communication majors at UCCS will have another course to choose from later this year. Comm. 131 has been added to the schedule for the Fall semester of 2009. The class is a study of bullshit and its practical application in 21st century America. Following the addition of the course to the schedule, The Scribe contacted the Dean of the college of LAS, Tom Christensen, for comment.
The color black has become so much the de rigueur sartorial statement of the anti-hero that it has become firmly associated with an archetypal wardrobe whose expressiveness is muted by cliché. The paradox of being iconic and self-evidently lame finds a proliferation of misguided hipsters, aspiring filmmakers and, most recently, Dungeon Masters (R.
The sky isn’t the limit, and for good reason
The nation’s unemployment rate hit 7.6 percent last Friday. Companies across multiple sectors are posting substantial losses in their earnings reports. The housing market continues to decay. There is no question that we remain in tough economic times, and many Americans have been forced to trim their spending habits and work less hours, if they have managed to retain their employment at all.
The best Obama can do: executive pay-goats
Most of us like to think that government extortion in this nation is relatively rare. Isolated incidents like Rod Blagojevich’s marketing of a Senate seat happen, of course. Far from a common occurrence, though, we tend to interpret this type of behavior as a rare remnant of the corrupt, backdoor, machine politics of Chicago – in other words, ancient history.
In July of last year, Barack Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that his first action as president would be to “sign the Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA].” This bill, introduced in April 2007, would “protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman’s freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy.”
Ten ways to annoy your professor
10. There/their/they’re: Randomly interchange “there,” “their” and “they’re” in your paper. You will end up with some interesting and entertaining sentences, and your professor will end up with a migraine.
The $800 billion economic stimulus package being forced through the House and Senate by President Obama was originally intended to create growth in the economy, i.e. jobs. The president continues to vaguely promote that premise, but the reality is that the bill has become little more than a spending frenzy where the Democrats are scrambling to attach every pet-project and special interest kickback imaginable.
Freedom of the press, an essential First Amendment right, is often viewed as a cornerstone of American liberty, and the press, a sacred institution not to be touched. It is no surprise, then, that policies like the Fairness Doctrine, which would regulate the political content of broadband mediums like talk radio so that equal time has to be given for liberals and conservatives, raise ire and suspicion among many Americans – even when the American President shows no interest in supporting such a policy.
It’s not a good time to be a homeowner in this country. Prices are in the gutter, and the general state of the economy means that few people can actually afford to purchase a home. Many Americans are stuck in overwhelming mortgages, with the risk of default looming in the near future. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reported 2.2 million foreclosures last year, and expects that up to 6 million more could wind up forfeiting their real estate in the next few years.
OK, so the mic was on, and I didn’t realize it. You’ve probably heard – yes, I said the “N word” in a television studio. I know it’s a bad word, but it’s just so hard not to say it, you know? Everyone else says it, right? Well, apart from white people of course – woe be to the white oppressor that I catch using the “N word.”
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