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In 2008 President Barack Obama campaigned on being better than the average politician, changing the culture of Washington D.C. and fixing the economy before the end of his first term.
The mistreatment of impoverished people is not uncommon in the United States, where those going through the McDonald’s drive-thru are incredibly impatient with the people making their food.
Zombies have become a fad over the last few years. They have permeated video games, films, comics and even television. The infection has now spread to real-life gaming as well.
Trying to be convincing is much easier when the option of denying basic facts is available, as Rep. and Senate candidate Todd Akin, R-Mo., recently proved with a truly ignorant statement about rape.
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” asked Ronald Reagan during his final debate with President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
“My president is black, my Lambo’s [Lamborghini] blue,” rapped Young Jeezy back in 2008, recently after Barack Obama became the first African-American commander-in-chief of the United States. But, is Obama still cool enough to lure the voting segment that helped him win in 2008?
On Aug. 11, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is his running mate, which was met with skepticism or pride, depending on who you asked.
Take a stroll through campus during the summer months, and you will quickly find that Eastern Michigan University’s campus is dead. Few people walk the sidewalks, resident advisors aren’t nearly as stressed and parking is relatively easy to find. Fortunately, those days are over.
What is Mitt Romney hiding by concealing his tax returns?
Recently, Republican Congressman Todd Akin received a firestorm of criticism for his dangerous and stupid remarks about rape.
Being an incoming freshman in college can be scary. You will face challenges that you have never imagined and it will test your inner strength, as feelings will run the gamut of excitement, fear, happiness and homesickness.
Although I have no regrets about my college experience at Eastern Michigan University, there are some things I wish I had known sooner.
Fall 2012 will see another wave of students entering another college semester. For some it will be their first. Incoming freshmen should ask themselves two questions: How will students and their parents pay for it? And is the four-year college track really the right one for them?
“Elbow.” Imagine being suspended from class for calling out a part of the human anatomy during an open discussion about the body.
The middle class has taken it on the chin during past economic crises. Most of America has, to be fair, but the middle class in particular seems to be the hardest hurt in the long term.
New York City is a big place. So it’s not surprising that it has its fair share of political kooks with nutty ideas they think are the answer to America’s problems. It seems a little odd though, that those Big Brother wannabes are in office.
Last week the New York Times ran two editorials calling attention to a new flood of secret money in politics and calling for the Internal Revenue Service to act. So what’s new about money corrupting our political system? Nothing. But it’s the way the money is being funneled that needs attention.
Last week I was reflecting on all the newsworthy stories of the spring, when I came upon a stirring conclusion about Detroit. Being strained by both financial and criminal problems, it seems to be falling further into peril with each sunset.
One of the many privileges that some people often enjoy when in a relationship is dictating how a significant other spends his or her time and complaining if it is not within expectations. When people who are not in an exclusive relationship try to do this however, they become a clinger.
It’s finally dawning on American voters that our political views have become every bit as “faith-based” as our religious beliefs. The old-fashioned idea that partisan disputes should still be settled by the facts is not only quaint and naive, it’s now positively dangerous.
