Watch last week’s satire today
April 26, 2016
April 27, 2016 For those of you that don’t know who John Oliver is, I urge you to type his name into your search engine and go to a YouTube treasure trove of greatness. I have, and probably will in the future, spend hours watching some of his best videos from his HBO show “Last Week Tonight with...
Kasich: a respectable GOP candidate
March 8, 2016
March 8, 2016 When it comes to politics, I identify as a Democrat. If I had to guess, I’d say I agree with 80 to 85 percent of liberal philosophies. I believe climate change is a big threat to our future, I think we need tougher and stricter gun laws and I’m against the death penalty. ...
CDC’s alcohol guidelines are an insult to women
February 16, 2016
Feb. 16, 2016 If you missed the familiar feeling of the government telling a woman how she should behave and what she shouldn’t do, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had your back in recent weeks. In what seemed like a good-hearted attempt to raise awareness of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Sudden...
Political engagement important
February 25, 2015
Feb. 25, 2015 When I got to college, I had a pretty narrow mindset on what I thought was right and wrong. My political views were not just my personal views. I wore them on my chest and refused to see another side. I grew as a person the day I started asking questions. Maybe it was the journalist...
Electoral college should not decide presidential elections
November 18, 2012
The dust has yet to settle from last Tuesday’s presidential election. President Obama was re-elected due to a dominant performance in the battleground states. In 2008, Obama won every battleground state. This election, he won every battleground state except North Carolina. Indiana was the only other...
It’s not a popularity contest
November 12, 2012
“A body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the president and vice president of the United States.” This is the definition of the Electoral College on Dictionary.com. If you’re at all familiar with the voting system we have in the United States, you know that the...
Baldwin seizes victory, first female Wis. senator
November 12, 2012
“Tonight, at the end of a long and hard-fought campaign, we have won a huge victory for Wisconsin’s middle class,” Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) said during her victory speech. Baldwin has beaten former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) in the race for a seat in the United States Senate making her...
Obama visits Milwaukee
October 3, 2012
President Barack Obama, who visited Milwaukee last Saturday, delivered a campaign re-election speech touching on the economy, creating jobs and improving education. Joseph Bucklley from Racine, Wis., was one of over 18,000 spectators at the Marcus Ampitheatre. “He did a good job talking about...