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(08/02/12 12:15am)
Austin Swink’s argument that somehow liberals and progressives do not respect individuality, responsibility or entrepreneurship is misleading and facetious. President Barack Obama did say, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” However, he went on to say that “The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.”
(08/01/12 11:04pm)
All the President’s Women
(07/31/12 12:15am)
Recently, our nation came to an impasse over where we stand on the intentions and consequences of allowing citizens to possess firearms. The tragedy at Aurora, Colo., resulted from a mentally unstable individual gradually building up an arsenal of grenades, explosives and several high-powered guns. How did James Holmes even manage to acquire such a large arsenal, and what does it say about our gun control? More importantly, this tragedy, following the massacre at Columbine, the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gifford, Virginia Tech, etc., must raise questions about what we are doing wrong as a society.
(07/26/12 1:04am)
When members of the UF Fightin’ Gator Marching Band hopped the pond Monday, they didn’t know their tour of London would include a surprise performance Friday.
(07/24/12 12:30am)
“Mom, why doesn’t anybody like me?” asks a teenage daughter on any sitcom ever.
(07/19/12 12:59am)
In a July 9 article in the New York Times, Scott Shane reports that amid the chaos of the Arab Spring and the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt’s presidency, the United States now finds itself contemplating new friendships in the region. What those friendships will now entail, according to Shane, are newly brokered relations between the U.S. and hard-line Islamist regimes in the area.
(07/19/12 12:57am)
“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
(07/17/12 12:25am)
The 2012 presidential election is coming up soon and both sides are gearing up for an all-out battle. President Obama and the Democrats have been working overtime to win over groups like the LGBTQ and immigrant communities, while the Republicans have been tirelessly working toward systematic voting purges.
(07/17/12 12:15am)
After a decade of diplomatic talks that saw the Iranian government repeatedly bait and switch the international community in a deliberate effort to buy more time for its nuclear program, even many skeptics anticipated a new outcome from last month’s Baghdad talks between Iran and the six world powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany).
(07/12/12 12:20am)
After reading the response column by UF alumnus William Deich maintaining that President Obama was not responsible for the state of the economy, I wanted to make a few things clear.
(07/10/12 12:30am)
On Monday, United States Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), officially won his battle against the now-infamous synthetic drug bath salts — the substance that supposedly caused Rudy Eugene to eat a man’s face on a causeway in Miami back in May.
(07/10/12 12:15am)
In another era, the affliction of AIDS — a disease surrounded by fear, misinformation and lack of medical expertise — was a death sentence. Although we have since grown to understand this disease, there is still much to learn about possible unintended consequences of its treatment.
(07/05/12 12:15am)
I recently read the column “President Obama displays incompetence,” by Alligator columnist Joshua Fonzi. With all due respect to the author, this column is highly typical of the “things are bad and no matter who made them bad, blame Obama” argument.
(07/03/12 12:35am)
In a statement released after the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health reform legislation, Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint said, “The Supreme Court may have failed to stop this government takeover of health care, but the American people will not.”
(07/03/12 12:15am)
In a close decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the national health care plan pushed by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.
(06/28/12 12:36pm)
In a close decision with an unexpected tiebreaker, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the national health care plan pushed by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.
(06/21/12 10:00pm)
Well, it’s the end of Summer A, which means the Alligator will be on break next week. However, we have a lot to cover this week, so sit tight, relax and prepare for our document-withholding-amnesty-granting-substance-banning-cancer-curing-animal-crashing-studio-bashing edition of...
(06/21/12 9:50pm)
Well, I’m just going to come right out and say it. President Obama is arguably the worst president in American history. Never have the American people been sold such a bill of goods as they have with this man.
(06/19/12 12:23am)
The dreams of about 800,000 undocumented students won’t be deferred, but their deportations will.
(06/19/12 12:20am)
On Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. government would grant work permits and halt the deportation of about 800,000 dreamers.
