Category Archive for 'Opinion'

“Attention Arizona residents: as of April 23, 2010, please fulfill your patriotic duty by reporting any suspicious looking, dark-haired Mexicans to the state immigration office for identification and processing. Thank you for your time and consideration.”
So maybe that is not exactly what the legislature and the governor agreed to when they instituted the recent Arizona [...]

Cutting in-state dreamers

Four years of hard work, all-nighters, endless study sessions, countless Friday nights spent studying for AP exams, multiple breakdowns, and infinite amounts of coffee—all for one goal and one goal only: getting into a dream university. Now in California, however, this dream is a little more far-fetched than previously thought.
This year, the UC campuses admitted [...]

Usually when we think of drugs, we think of cocaine and heroin. Well, think again.
According to monitoringthefuture.org, more and more teenagers are changing their drug choice from marijuana and other illicit drugs to markers, glue, Pixie Sticks, and even choking.
This troubling trend is affecting teens throughout the country and is going completely unnoticed by parents [...]

“Glendale Unified School District is in the middle of a budget crisis.” We have all heard this statement many a time and are well aware that the fiscal crisis is a very big deal. However, what many may not be aware of is that the district is willing to shorten school years in public schools [...]

For thousand of years, men and women have dealt with issues of infidelity.Classic excuses for infidelity range from “it’s not cheating if you pay for it” to “it’s not what it looks like.” More recently, chronic cheaters have found another excuse to add to their pathetic list: science.
A study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute concluded that [...]

A month after her boyfriend dumped her, Ally, a teenager from New Jersey, sent him a topless picture of herself at his request. In the Music Television (MTV) documentary “Sexting In America: When Privates Go Public,” Ally told her story about how her world turned upside down when her picture circulated around the school and [...]

A month after her boyfriend dumped her, Ally, a teenager from New Jersey, sent him a topless picture of herself at his request. In the Music Television (MTV) documentary “Sexting In America: When Privates Go Public,” Ally told her story about how her world turned upside down when her picture circulated around the school and [...]

A month after her boyfriend dumped her, Ally, a teenager from New Jersey, sent him a topless picture of herself at his request. In the Music Television (MTV) documentary “Sexting In America: When Privates Go Public,” Ally told her story about how her world turned upside down when her picture circulated around the school and [...]

For years, Americans have been fooled into thinking that they are getting the best of everything that the world has to offer—the best health care, opportunities, and especially the best education.
It is a general truth that in order to achieve success one first needs a good education. However, over the years, America’s once coveted education [...]

History was made Tuesday as President Obama signed into law the health care reform bill that he had been pushing for over a year.
It was, overall, a great political battle on the House floor that had been ongoing since the Senate passed a version of the bill in December. Things moved slowly mostly due to [...]