I have accepted I will disagree with the editorial staff of the Alligator on almost any given political issue, but Monday’s offensive editorial needs to be addressed.
While the Kyoto Protocol has been signed and ratified by virtually every world power, the exceptions being the United States and Australia, the international policy itself offers no real solutions to climate change.
Lindsey Graham should probably quiet down now.
Soon-to-be Speaker of The House John Boehner will soon add another title to his name: Fashion Police.
Beginning Monday, 15,000 world delegates, journalists and others swarmed to the sunny and spicy Cancun, Mexico, to discuss how in the world we should deal with the pending global climate crisis.
WikiLeaks spewed out a bunch of classified American diplomatic documents this week, and it was disheartening to learn that what passes for statecraft these days could easily be mistaken for a worldly version of Us Weekly.
Sen. John McCain, the top Republican in the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said Sunday it’s time to start chatting about a “regime change” in North Korea.
Beginning Sunday, the website WikiLeaks, an organization designed to release covert government documents, began to release batches of top-secret papers.
In the words of the lyrics sung by Kenny Rogers, “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.”
I see them out sometimes, and sometimes in class the next day. Bodies dry, withered and hated. Revelry at late night hours in 40-watt splendor. Sloppy and slippery moral codes bound to the most basic human needs.
When I was accepted to UF (after being rejected four times), I yelled. That's how excited I was.
Good news for drivers looking to stick it to the gas-guzzling Man: The Environmental Protection Agency labeled the soon-to-be-released Nissan Leaf as the best midsize vehicle for fuel efficiency and best car for the environment as the Leaf clocks in at about 99 miles per gallon.
Since I began writing this column at the beginning of the year, I’ve had a few regrets.
We airbrush models and magazine centerfolds without much thought. Beauty, we’re told, is only skin-deep, and our models need to represent the image of perfection.
Now that whining politicians and journalists have bravely taken a stand against the malt energy phenomenon known as Four Loko, maybe they can now turn their sights to another powerful combination that can be hazardous to those who imbibe it in too-large doses.
Columnist Chris Dodson makes an inaccurate point about Congressional lame duck sessions in his Monday column.
Never fear, Gators. If any of you were musing on your sexual morality and overall human decency and/or worth while contemplating a trip to confessional after your purchase of a box of Trojans, don’t you worry.
I come from a family where everyone for several generations has graduated college, and most of my immediate family own businesses. What I’ve noticed most since becoming a student at the university is that I have a very uncommon perspective.
People shouldn’t be protesting against immigration reform for illegal aliens. They should be protesting against the immigration laws and system as a whole. For a country founded on immigration, America has some of the most complex, unforgiving, expensive and xenophobic immigration laws of any developed country. The entire system is in dire need of major reform.
The fact that Facebook is revamping its messaging system is no cause for alarm or uproar.
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