President Barack Obama made that statement at a speech in Roanoke, Va., last week. This quote is making the rounds on conservative blogs and on social media websites.
As a passionate, self-proclaimed feminist, I have a problem with the recent uproar resulting from Daniel Tosh’s decision to respond, rather menacingly, to a female heckler at one of his shows.
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.
This is what stand-up comedian Daniel Tosh allegedly said to a woman during a show last week, according to an anonymous friend of Tumblr user “breakfastcookie.”
The Iranian economy and the Iranian government’s finances have been suffering under the most crippling economic sanctions of Iran’s post-revolutionary history.
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.
Self-image and self-esteem are two incredibly important qualities that need nurturing basically forever. But it is much harder to keep a positive outlook on those traits when you’re a girl.
Most people, if asked, would say July 4 is the birth date of our Republic. Technically they are correct, but for the founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 was merely the birth date of an idea.
The fact is that Republicans have been obstructing everything President Obama has tried to do, and this is more the “John Boehner Economy” than the “Obama Economy.”
On June 28, everyone on Facebook suddenly became U.S. Constitution wizards. Experts from the far right to the extreme left spouted their professional opinions and quoted the document like a Shakespearean scholar quotes Hamlet.
It marks the film company’s first fairytale female protagonist and period piece. The main character, Merida, must undo a curse using her skill sets: bravery and archery.
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.
On Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. government would grant work permits and halt the deportation of about 800,000 dreamers.
No one denies that the philosophical divide between Americans on the political left and right has only grown sharper in recent years. Bitter resentment and contempt for those of opposing views is commonplace. It often seems that the stronger the convictions or the more awareness one has of political issues, the more fervently one tends to see others as opponents.
Like any modern society, we depend on schools to help us navigate through life. Our education is paramount to our ability to reason, and we apply our knowledge to help us solve problems. However, a couple of months ago a stark realization hit me — in every country, even in the U.S., a certain level of propaganda exists within our curriculum.
There’s a certain level of danger in mentioning anything on the Internet. One link falls into the hands of the wrong person and before you know it, innocent pictures or comments get turned into giant jokes.
One of the really stimulating things about writing this column is the fact that I receive scathing critiques from people of differing views on everything from my thoughts and ideas to my personal character and anything else imaginable. Every now and then, somebody puts forth something so ripe for exposition that I can’t resist a response.
But Mayor Michael Bloomberg is certainly trying.
It’s close to nine months since Occupy Wall Street came onto the scene and caused a stir by peacefully sitting in Zuccotti Park. In this time, several different Occupy groups have sprung up around the nation.
It is of some concern that the pronoun “they” is constantly used to refer to the government. If the United States is a government of, by, and for the people, then shouldn’t the pronoun “we” be more appropriate?
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