Perspectives

With the elections, college-age constituents will have the opportunity to exercise their political voice via voting. With key issues of the economy and health care, now is the time for college-age voters to step up and step out to the polls. These issues may not seem paramount now, but wait until you are looking for a job. Concerned yet? […]

President Obama promised us in his 2008 campaign he would fix the economy. Today, we still feel a recession, unemployment is up, and the national debt is worse. Many feel replacing the Democrats with Republicans will be the answer. Call me biased, but I disagree. Remember: Democrats have only been controlling government for 18 months. […]

November is approaching, and just as leaves are beginning to decorate the ground, political ads are starting to make television viewing a little more “colorful.” I recently found an ad for a politician running to represent California in Congress. While I am usually prepared for snide political commercials, after watching this ad I did not know whether to laugh or cry. […]

“Genocide.” Most of us think of The Holocaust or Rwanda when we hear that word. Most people are not aware of the massive genocide that happened in Cambodia only 30 years ago.
This genocide, instigated by the Khmer Rouge, a Communist group that ruled Cambodia from 1975–79, killed an estimated 1.7 to 3 million people. […]

This summer in my Midwestern hometown, I caught sight of a billboard that seemed to promise something I never thought possible in the abortion debate. It featured a picture of a large stork in goggles toting an infant in a baby carrier. “Avoid the Stork,” was all it read. […]