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(07/08/15 2:15am)
Over the weekend, Greek voters rejected a proposal from the rest of the European Union that would give Greece another loan in exchange for several cuts in Greece's national budget. With Greece already in debt to its neighbors to the tune of over 300 billion euros (or about $328 billion USD), this latest proposal was meant to be a way for Greece's banks and government to continue operating without defaulting on their previous loans while also closing some of its national budget gap (which Greece will have to do before it can pay back its debts). By rejecting the agreement, Greece is the first modern nation to miss a debt payment and risks national bankruptcy if they continue to do so.
(06/10/15 2:13am)
As a child, I fell in love with the game of baseball. I participated in my city's recreation league every year, forced friends and family to play catch at every opportunity and followed MLB religiously. Living in Virginia before the Nationals moved to DC meant that the Orioles were my home, and therefore favorite, team. In the years since then, I've watched them win hundreds of games, and lose even more (they wouldn't break their streak of 14 straight losing seasons until 2012). I was crushed when All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada was traded to the Astros, exhilarated when I was in the stands for Delmon Young's bases clearing double to give us the game-winning lead against the Tigers in last year's postseason and mortified when I watched us play the first game barred to fans in MLB history during the height of the Freddie Gray protests.
(04/22/15 1:15am)
Graduation is almost upon us, a time where hundreds of
thousands of college seniors across the country will remember fondly the
friends they made and the times they had. They’ll celebrate their trials and
triumphs in the collegiate arena. Parties thrown in their honor will be
attended by their friends, their family and their giant pet elephant named student loan debt.
(04/14/15 11:48pm)
In North Charleston on Saturday, April 4, a
fatal police-involved shooting occurred. Officer Michael Slager reported that
he pulled over Walter Scott for a routine traffic stop, was attacked by Scott, and in a struggle for the officer’s Taser Slager shot the victim in
self-defense. It looked like Scott would become another name on the already long list of unarmed African-American men killed by white police officers who weren’t punished.
(04/06/15 1:30am)
In 1952, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education made it clear that segregation in education was a violation of the constitutional rights of those students who were excluded.
(03/24/15 1:32am)
This letter to the editor is in response to Shana Bethea's letter "SAE students' hate speech indefensible" published on March 23.
(03/17/15 11:30pm)
While we were home on spring break, a video depicting members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity at Oklahoma University singing a racist cheer made the rounds of national media outlets.
(03/05/15 1:01am)
This article is a response to "Fight for internet freedom begins with net neutrality" by Nick Vogt, which ran in this publication Monday, March 2.
(02/25/15 12:57am)
The annual Academy Awards were presented this weekend, and for the 20th year in a row I didn’t watch. The pomp and circumstance of these types of award shows just aren’t my cup of tea, but I understand from those who did watch it that "Citizenfour" won best documentary. For anyone else who watched neither the Oscars nor "Citizenfour" while it was in theaters, it’s a documentary about Edward Snowden and his role in the 2013 leaks about the National Security Administration (NSA) mass surveillance programs.
(02/18/15 2:56am)
"I'm convinced the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the Middle East. That's not in our national security interests and it's not necessary for us to defeat ISIL," President Obama said in his press conference last week about his formal request to Congress for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). He’s absolutely correct.
(02/10/15 3:45am)
I was just starting high school when the so-called “Great
Recession” began in 2007.
(02/03/15 8:02am)
Another year, another pointless debate about the budget of
the federal government.
(01/28/15 7:59am)
Cuba: home of high quality cigars, more than 2,000 miles of
beaches.
(01/20/15 7:58am)
I’m not usually a big fan of Gov. Nikki Haley, but I’ve
got to give credit where credit is due. In her letter condemning the Public
Service Commission’s ban on Uber, she’s on the right side of history.
(01/13/15 7:21am)
While most of us were busy getting ready to leave for winter
break (or were already on our respective ways home) Congress was busy drafting
last-minute legislation to fund the government for another nine months. The
problem with this, as with many things in Washington, was that many
members of Congress could not agree on what to buy with the taxpayers’ hard-earned
money. The issues were so divisive that, none of the proposed budgets could get
the majority they needed to pass.
(12/04/14 6:33am)
Out of more than 160,000 “most serious” cases prosecuted at
the federal level in 2010 (the latest year for which data from the Bureau of
Justice Statistics), only 11 failed to return indictments.
(11/19/14 8:32am)
Attempts to hide past allegiance with Hussein led to American deaths
(11/05/14 7:30am)
When a court case is named, the prosecution or plaintiff is
named first and the defense is named second.
(10/16/14 6:16am)
“Ebola in the U.S.!” shout headlines, as international panic over
the virus reaches its highest levels yet.
(10/09/14 6:39am)
While well intentioned, law's negatives outweigh its positives