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(09/01/15 6:33pm)
In many ways, art is my
best friend—actually she’s my sister. I have pictures of me at seven months
old, pencil in hand, just doodling away. I got to pre-school and I would choose
painting over any other activity. In elementary, I preferred art over watching
movies. I think art has always been in my life and that is one reason for my
fondness of it. I don’t really think I could ever go a day without creating art
or even looking at it. It makes my life and those around me better—and to me,
therein lies the importance.
(09/01/15 6:26pm)
Every American
should realize that it is their obvious duty to vote for Donald Trump to be the
45th president of the United States. He is clearly an excellent reflection of
who Americans are, what we stand for and he is the president this country
deserves for as long as we go by the basis of the majority.
(09/01/15 6:23pm)
Ten
Republicans faced-off in Cleveland, Ohio in the first debate of the primaries
on August 6th and, just hours earlier, seven others had faced-off. I
thought a second debate was a bad idea, but was glad to be proven wrong.
(09/01/15 6:21pm)
Within a week of seeing my words “[I] see only two names on
the political horizon: Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton” in print last February, I
felt very silly. Bush and Clinton, names which have been on the forefront of
American political life for almost as long as I’ve been alive, might as well be
the county’s former future prime candidates. While there’s much that can be
said about Sanders or the woefully oversimplified Scandinavian model of which
he is a proponent, I find Trump’s candidacy more interesting.
(09/01/15 6:16pm)
If
Bernie Sanders is going to say that the United States should look more like
Scandinavia, he must first present an idea of what the Scandinavian model
actually is. What is called “the” Scandinavian model is really three or four
models—political, geographic, demographic and economic—all happening at once.
But, which model does Sanders mean?
(08/16/15 7:19pm)
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are not opposites, but rather they are competing populists. Candidates who, as libertarian Glenn Reynolds writes, “have come forward to claim the orphaned vote.”
(06/28/15 2:52pm)
History was made on
Friday, when the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 vote that same-sex couples
have a constitutional right to marriage. This incredible and heartwarming
victory has been a long road for the gay community, and I am absolutely elated
that marriage equality has finally been achieved. It is my hope that this is a
sign of things to come.
(06/28/15 2:50pm)
Eastern Michigan University has recently announced that it is raising the cost of tuition by 7.8 percent. I find that while this raise itself is appropriate in order to make EMU more and more independent from government aid, the marketing tactics used before raising the cost of tuition are not.
(06/28/15 2:48pm)
As a libertarian, I want the Constitution upheld more than anyone. I understand the constitutional argument conservatives have used against the Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized gay marriage when they say the 10th Amendment protects the sovereignty of state law. However, I also am aware of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.
(06/21/15 3:01pm)
It’s been a little while since Caitlyn Jenner officially came out, which sparked tons of media coverage that may have gotten a little overwhelming for some. Among numerous responses—many of them LGBTQ+ positive—was Jon Stewart’s response saying, “It’s really heartening to see that everyone is willing to not only accept Caitlyn Jenner as a woman, but to waste no time in treating her like a woman.” Here he is referring to the shift of intellectual to body-focused conversation regarding her. This may lead us to ask, was Caitlyn’s Vanity Fair photo shoot good or bad for feminism?
(06/21/15 2:59pm)
Wednesday night at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, nine people were shot and killed by domestic right-wing terrorist and white supremacist Dylann Roof—a horrible and terrifying act of pure hate and violence brought down upon the black community— and, while I absolutely and wholeheartedly share the feelings of disgust and sadness felt by many following this event, it’s time that we stop neurotically fixating our attention on these mass shootings, because it is unhealthy and creates the right atmosphere for further extremism to come slithering out of the mist and rear its ugly head.
(06/21/15 2:56pm)
Capitalism is an ideology and, like many ideologies, it requires multiple factors that only exist in a textbook to ensure it works 100 percent of the time with 100 percent efficiency. Perfect competition is one example of this economic thought. Perfect competition requires multiple businesses providing a similar product competitively in order to drive the price of their product down to a natural price floor. There are some examples of this in reality that merit value, such as crops in America all essentially being the same price through various vendors, with the only difference being shipping costs. However, one part of capitalism that is not one of its tenets is crony-capitalism, popularly known as corporatism.
(06/21/15 2:55pm)
The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary are the first two contests in the race to earn the Democratic or Republican nomination for president. These two states dominate media coverage of the election and candidates spend an enormous amount of time campaigning within these states—but, Iowa and New Hampshire should not be getting the attention that they are.
(06/14/15 2:52pm)
When I think of democracy, I do not think of the pure incarnation of the political system wherein the majority rule, but rather the philosophical term in which all people, no matter their differences, are considered equal and possess all of the same rights. This is, I would posit, how most people think of democracy – as a set of egalitarian ideals – not as a sort of mob-mentality system of political tyranny. This is fairly straightforward and most people praise this ideology of liberty, but it is being threatened by an ever-expanding and much more powerful system – capitalism, which flaunts the opposite of pure democracy, in that the very few have a monopoly on the many; an even more dangerous model.
(06/14/15 2:47pm)
Authority in the United States is given too much room for error and interpretation. Allowing authority figures, paid for by the American tax dollars, too much leniency is like two parents telling a child not to open the cookie jar, but then leave him unattended for a week. Eventually the cookie jar will be opened. Unmonitored and unjustified authority can become a hazard to the security of the citizens who no longer pay it any attention.
(06/14/15 2:41pm)
Presidential candidate for
2016, Bernie Sanders, recently scored a seemingly major win for his campaign,
as he came within eight points of Hillary Clinton in a Wisconsin Democratic
Convention straw poll. However, he has a tough road ahead of him if he’s going
to win the Democratic nomination, because while many Americans agree with his message,
Clinton is a Goliath of an opponent and it may be difficult to claim a victory
over her.
(06/07/15 3:21pm)
Trickle-down economics has become a popular phrase in conservative media since their king, President Ronald Reagan, in the 1980s. The term, according to Alex Andreou at The Guardian, was actually a witty catchphrase created by the Democrats of the 1980 Presidential Race to be thrown at Reagan. Despite Reagan winning the election, the Democrats were correct in their criticism of “Reaganomics” in that the trickle-down effect does not work.
(06/07/15 3:18pm)
Rand Paul scored a big victory in Congress, as he led a successful filibuster over the renewal of key provisions of the Patriot Act. Despite his more Libertarian stance on domestic surveillance, Paul’s past remarks show that he still holds some troubling views on many domestic issues.
(06/07/15 3:14pm)
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Nebraska became the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, along with the District of Columbia. It is the first predominantly Republican state to abolish capital punishment in more than 40 years. This is an encouraging trend because the death penalty is costly, immoral, dangerous and ineffective at deterring crime.
(06/06/15 8:20pm)
When it comes to the athletics program at Eastern Michigan University, Mid-American Conference regular season wins, titles, appearances in MAC tournaments and championships are the most important goals for the respective teams. And no team at Eastern Michigan University has exemplified and attained these goals in the past five years more than the women’s soccer team, led by head coach Scott Hall.