Medically Accurate Sex Education - It's for the public good

          Many Texans mistakenly view sexual education, and moreover, teaching it to public school children, as a threat to family values and the idea of abstinence. However, this view is erroneous. As with all information-based education,...

UT students arrested during protest

AUSTIN—Students at the University of Texas were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing after refusing to leave the fourth floor of the Main Building on Wednesday evening.         The 18 students, members of the Students Against Sweatshops...

Gov. Perry's luck fails him at last

          Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) is one lucky man, but America needs more than luck.            As governor of Texas, Gov. Perry has benefited from a booming economy based on trade traffic and oil.  The price of...

A Legal Lesson on the Penn State Scandal

          I have read many complaints about how long investigators "waited" to take legal action, and all these claims do is reinforce my understanding of how little the majority of the American public actually knows about the justice system.  ...

Campus Carry Will Not Make Our Universities Safer

          Concealed carry on university campuses will not make us safer. For that is the priority gentlemen, safety, and that alone. Not political ideology and not political victory, but the safety of our students, of our faculty and staff, and...

The Medal of Honor Never Awarded

          June 6, 1944. D-Day, H-Hour. General Dwight D. Eisenhower had already written his concession speech for Operation Overlord. In it he admits defeat therein and asserts that any responsibility therefore fell solely on his own shoulders....

The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

          “How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?”                     –(Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Wind)....

Bigotry's Okay, Just Don't Take Our Money Away

          Congratulations America, you've really outdone yourself this time. Go on, give yourself a nice pat on the back, and while you're at it kick a puppy. No seriously, kick the damn puppy. Seriously. What's that? That's cruel? That's...

Joe McCarthy, the Tea Party, and The Fourth Estate

       In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was a nobody. However, within a few years he created a political firestorm that would impact every aspect of the federal government. How you may ask—by manipulating the print media.     ...

The Arrogant Advice of an American Teenager

          I am young. I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow…” (Eric Maria Remarque). Those words began an admission that would forever change how...

America: Never Acquiesce

          Stubborn. Proud. Independent. Certainly fair modifiers to describe a nation like the United States of America. Why should we be anything else? We have a history of firsts. We should not let that change or be overlooked. We have a rich...

Young Pupil Attempts Suicide After Repeated Bullying

          On Wednesday an 8-year-old student was asked to leave his classroom by the substitute teacher. The motivation behind such a request was that the student had just had his pants pulled down by two other boys. This event was...