Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Austin C. McCoy
“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.” –Germaine Greer
“Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of opportunity/Look at what this country’s got/ There shouldn’t be nobody homeless/ How can the president fix other problems when he ain’t fixed home yet?/The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Who’s Patriotic? (SpN! Spring/Summer 2005)
– Aaron Beveridge
Thomas Paine is rolling in his grave. Our current use of the word patriot would have caused Paine to put pen to paper and write yet another pamphlet. Were he to be revived from the grave and complete another work of dissent it would be patriotic in a sense [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my friends asked me how I would advise Senator Obama after he won the Democratic Primary last Tuesday night. So, if I were an advisor (and a novice at that), these are some of the points I would try to convey. As a warning, this advice is not meant to be exhaustive. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
— Jessica Winck
There is a prevalent incomprehension among some older feminists that young women or any feminist could support a man over Senator Clinton. Nevermind who this man is or what his values are or the ways that he has, for many women, adequately proven himself as a politician who supports [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here are a few questions that I have pondered over the course of the last year. I want to submit them myself since there are not too many people asking them in the media.
1. Why are democrats acting like they have a cohesive platform right now?
2. Why has the Democratic Party been the reactionary party [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
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-Austin C. McCoy
As many already know, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down forty years ago yesterday. I was disappointed that I did not coordinate my schedule correctly in order to take a road trip to Memphis to participate in the march. However, I felt compelled to reflect on the significance of Reverend [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I will post my response within the next couple of days. Meanwhile here is a complete video and transcript courtesy of his campaign website. It was big.
Barack Obama : A More Perfect Union
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
–Jessica Winck
I’m annoyed with the media’s new fixation on Kristen, the woman whose services New York Governor Eliot Spitzer used and got caught paying for. It’s hard to call this fixation “coverage.” Nothing new has happened except the discovery of her MySpace page, a pretty static piece of information: it hasn’t been altered since she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Steve King, Republican Congressman: Al-Qaida Will Be “Dancing In The Streets” If “Hussein” Obama Wins - Politics on The Huffington Post
Is it me or is King the one reading too much into his middle name?…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, February 29, 2008, I attended a rally for Senator Hillary Clinton where former President Clinton was the guest speaker. As usual, he was impressive. He outlined Senator Clinton’s positions on health care, education, the war, and her fundamental political philosophy of change and experience. Former President Clinton’s engaging personality and sense of humor [...]
