Conflicting Signals?

A closer look at Obama’s appointees might ease the initial disenchantment of some progressives.

Stop piling up on Obama

By Leonid Balaban
I made a comment yesterday in class and I wanted to reiterate this point in the blog: Lay off Obama – HE IS NOT THE PRESIDENT YET!!!
Only a month ago, Obama was elected to be the next President of the U.S. and there are still more than two months before he gets officially [...]

Obama’s Presidency and Cuba

By Sarah Popp
     A travel restriction and trade embargo has been in place against Cuba since the early 1960s.  The UN General Assembly has been urging the United States to lift the embargo for the last 17 years, but the United States has refused.  U.S. diplomat Ronald Godard stated that the embargo is justified because [...]

Obama Can Keep the 60’s from Coming Back

By Stephen Noriega

I believe that Barack Obama can avert another 60’s. Perhaps this sounds counterintuitive or even pessimistic. It is not meant to be either. The election of Barack Obama brings on another possibility. It is the possibility of breaking unfortunate repetitions of human behavior. Barack Obama may be able to circumvent a simmering resentment [...]

When the clock strikes midnight

By: Brian Bohnert
As the clock winds down on the Bush presidency, it seems as though our 43rd president is not done putting his ideological stamp on the American political landscape – this time in the form of last minute executive orders and executive rule changes. This article discusses how he has gone about it and [...]

No way. No how. No SecState.

By Diego Del Campo

It’s now officially been a week since word leaked from the less-than leak-proof Obama transition team that Sen. Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner for the Secretary of State position in the Obama administration. The flurry of media reports since have been spotty, at best—some alleging she’s already accepted and others hinting she [...]

Change

As Barack Obama was elected on November 4th, one could not escape the excitement in the air. Horns, screams, cheers, and clapping could be heard all around downtown Denver. On T.V. people were crying tears of joy at Obama‘s acceptance speech. Even I, Elizabeth Woods, the conservative from this elections course, felt proud to be [...]

The Republican 2012 Lineup

By Matt Knipple
            Now that the 2008 Presidential Election is over, it is time for us Republicans to look at who is going to unseat President Obama in 2012 (actually, I think this is very unlikely barring a massive meltdown by the new President).  Republicans have been frantically looking as to who will be our [...]

Obama’s Cabinet

By Lance Thibert
 
Week by week, new Obama cabinet appointments continue to make the news, with the biggest one being Rahm Emmanuel as White House Chief of staff. The dilemma Obama faces is to stock his cabinet with Democratic loyalists and reward those who made his victory possible, or take on a bipartisan cabinet in keeping with [...]

The case for uniform election laws

by Leonid Balaban
Despite the electoral victory by Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election and the fact that the overall turnout has increased modestly by over 4 million people comparing to 2004 election, there were still plenty of reports of people having trouble voting. Long lines at the election precincts, thousands of voters purged from [...]