The Outcome of Colorado’s Amendments

by Sarah Popp
            November 4 was a bad day for anyone trying to pass an amendment in Colorado. 
         It was no surprise that Amendment 48, which would have defined personhood as beginning at fertilization, failed miserably: 73.3 percent to 26.7 percent.  According to a CNN exit poll, women were a bit more likely to favor the amendment [...]

Two of a Kind

By Lance Thibert
While I am among the first to point out the fallacies in the oft-spouted “both parties are the same” mantra, recent events have humorously, if superficially, made the two presidential campaigns seem like mirror images of each other. The Democratic ticket has a charismatic figure at the head, and an experienced senator in [...]

Should Obama Start Going Negative?

You’ve seen the campaign ads on television starting to come out where the Presidential candidates (John McCain and Barack Obama) give their stances on issues that are important in America today.  The campaign ads have not been all about the issues, though, and have began to turn into a smear campaign, almost exclusively from John [...]