Thursday’s cartoon “Spin to Win” might be amusing, but it leans on a myth about philosophy majors the data simply do not support.
Bravo to columnist Nate Rushing for his Thursday column.
Wednesday’s guest column by Stephen Bartholomew from the University of Toledo on the justification of WikiLeaks’ releases is ridiculous.
Mediocre journalism does more harm than good.
If the proposed ordinance to enforce a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. airboat curfew in Alachua County passes, it will cost county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. During two years of public hearings on this issue, county reports have come to the conclusion that Alachua County has no compelling reason to adopt an airboat curfew. The county attorneys have indicated the same.
Can someone please explain the difference between journalism and advertising to the political science majors working for the editorial staff?
There are many problematic statements in Nate Rushing’s article. First of all, he suggests criminally charging abortion clinics and doctors, who provide a much-needed service.
In Nate Rushing’s Thursday column, Rushing said “there’s strong evidence for an abortion and breast cancer link” and cited the discredited, conspiratorial abortionbreastcancer.com group as his source.
Francisco Sotomayor’s Tuesday letter completely ignores the struggles of working-class students. Sure, block tuition might be great for someone who wants to take underwater basket weaving, but some of us actually have to work to get through college.
Wednesday’s endorsement for attorney general was the worst endorsement yet in the series of political endorsements.
It’s time to stop pretending to be “independent.” What a surprise the Editorial Board endorses Kendrick Meek and Alex Sink for senator and governor respectively.
While I was not shocked that the Alligator endorsed Alex Sink for governor, I was disappointed. Instead of explaining the issues it agreed with Sink on, it spent the entire editorial bashing Rick Scott, making a number of false statements about his campaign.
In theory, the high-speed rail line linking Orlando to Tampa is a great idea. In practice, there are many more roadblocks the state of Florida needs to pass before the railway is even plausible.
Stephanie Strasser criticizes the “life-changing” results of the 2008 presidential election, but then resorts to the same rhetoric used by the 2008 Obama campaign, telling Americans that we should “vote for a change.”
In the race for commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, Adam Putnam stands high above the rest.
I respect The Independent Florida Alligator for its endorsement of Kendrick Meek for U.S. Senate, but Marco Rubio is the best choice to represent Florida.
I really like the idea of block tuition. While I appreciate Matthew Christ’s viewpoint, I think he’s looking at block tuition all wrong.
Voter apathy is the No. 1 enemy of democracy.
I saw many people wrote in to point out the inaccuracies of Brian Amos’ Wednesday column. It needs to be stated that he wrote the article to be satirical. However, those who did not get it are not fully to blame.
Brian Amos’ column shocked me by its blatant disregard of the facts. Ronald Reagan, John Tyler and Herbert Hoover are not first, second or third on the vast majority of scholars’ presidential rankings. A C-SPAN poll conducted in 2009 of presidential historians had Reagan at 10, Tyler at a measly 35 and Hoover at a slightly better-than-measly 34.
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