Opinion
Dove church, health bill parallel
By Will Pennman | Jan. 25, 2010Religion can be fairly divided into two parts: what you believe, and how you tell other people what you believe.
Opinion
Sports
UF rugby is worth watching
Jan. 24, 2010His left eye was well on its way to being swollen shut, but Cody Davidson was grinning from ear to ear.
Opinion
Corporations entitled to free speech
By JEFF IVEY | Jan. 24, 2010Last Thursday, the Supreme Court got it right. When the Supreme Court was created by the Founding Fathers, it was not intended to promote social justice or uphold laws that are popular with much of the public. The Supreme Court instead serves to ensure that laws follow the Constitution strictly as it is written.
Opinion
Obama needs to fight back after loss
Jan. 24, 2010Well, it’s official — the presidency of Barack Obama is over.
Opinion
Haiti cartoon wasn’t meant to offend
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 24, 2010A picture is worth a thousand words.
Sports
Stacked recruiting classes make transfers inevitable
By CALLOVI< | Jan. 21, 2010Every year the Gators bring in a recruiting class filled with talented prospects, often with many at the same position.
Opinion
Supreme Court decision has grim implications for Americans
By JAMES CHAPIN | Jan. 21, 2010Some people believe that Tuesday’s Republican victory in Massachusetts, which may have cut the throat of health care reform, was big news. I beg to differ. The big news came out of a large room holding nine small people and a few witnesses on Thursday afternoon. It was doomsday for the individual in American politics. The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that corporations and unions are no longer beholden to the rules that had limited their spending on federal elections. Remember that date. Because the gargantuan coffers of those corporations and unions are now open very, very wide, and the words “shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” have led to some very murky consequences. Justice John Paul Stevens read a long, lonely dissent from the bench. He called the decision “a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have ... fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the time of Theodore Roosevelt.”
Opinion
Sex column misses mark
By SAM LEWIS | Jan. 21, 2010Editor’s note: This letter was written in response to Thursday’s sex column. To read the column, visit alligator.org/the_avenue
Opinion
Darts and Laurels
By Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 21, 2010We’re not sure about you, but the Editorial Board is certainly glad to see it’s almost the weekend. We’re already annoyed, pissed off and just plain exhausted. So why don’t we skip the formalities and go right to Darts & Laurels
Opinion
America should rid itself of gun use
By PAUL MURTY | Jan. 21, 201030,364 vs. 210. Obviously, 30,364 is a much greater number than 210. Sadly, the former amount represents the number of gun-related deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths, in the United States in 2005. According to a blog post from the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, 210 is an extrapolated figure that represents the number of gun-related deaths in the United Kingdom if its population was equal to the United States. In reality, there are only 42 gun-related deaths per year in the U.K., according to the blog.
Sports
Floyd rumor tops them all
Jan. 20, 2010It’s no wonder Florida was able to bring in what many recruiting analysts are calling one of the best classes in recent memory.
Opinion
Democrats shouldn’t give up after loss
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 20, 2010One of the bluest states in the country spat on Ted Kennedy’s grave Tuesday when Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown, and the Editorial Board can’t help but feel that Massachusetts voters delivered a sucker punch to the U.S. as a whole.
Opinion
Stayin’ Alive
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 20, 2010The New York Times announced Wednesday afternoon that in 2011 it will offer online readers only a limited number of articles for free each month. In this “metered system,” once users reach their limit, they will be charged or denied access.
Opinion
‘Avatar’ parallels Republican Party
Jan. 20, 2010Read as a straightforward attack on capitalism in a blue-green hue, many conservatives have angrily vented across all media platforms belittling “Avatar” as yet another Hollywood-leftist-socialist-homosexual-pantheistic-anthrophobic diatribe.
Opinion
TV lessons lessen with time
By Eric Tegethoff | Jan. 20, 2010No offense to my parents, but I was raised by television.
Opinion
Student’s arrest brings to light America’s flawed priorities
By Will Penman | Jan. 20, 2010About two weeks ago, Haisong Jiang, a graduate student from China studying biosciences at Rutgers, saw his girlfriend off at the Newark Liberty International Airport.
Sports
Macklin controls team’s fate
Jan. 19, 2010At the beginning of the season, I would have pegged “He Ain’t Worth Missing” by Toby Keith as the song for the 2009-10 Florida basketball team, a tune freshman guard Kenny Boynton surely sang to the squad upon his arrival in Gainesville to ease the players’ pain over Nick Calathes’ departure for an exotic mistress (Greece).
Opinion
Response to sex column is spot-on
By Amanda Eilers | Jan. 19, 2010Joe Dellosa, thank you for writing your column, “Infidelity should not be normalized,” in Tuesday’s Alligator. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Opinion
France is misrepresented as having ‘clean’nuclear programs
By Linda Gunter | Jan. 19, 2010It is perhaps no accident that the nuclear power industry chose a French word, “renaissance,” to promote its alleged comeback. Attached to this misapplied moniker are a series of fallacious suggestions that nuclear energy is “clean,” “safe” and even “renewable.” And, in keeping with its French flavor, a key argument in the industry’s propaganda arsenal is that the U.S. should follow the “successful” example of the French nuclear program.
Opinion
Ignoring local church is the only solution
By Nora F. Zaki | Jan. 19, 2010In response to Paul Murty’s column: Thank you for your intelligent column on Friday about ignoring the Dove World Outreach Center members when they preach intolerantly on campus.
