When I discovered last week that Westboro Baptist Church, or WBC had scheduled a picket of East Lansing High School, I was appalled and shocked. For those who don’t know, the group is best known for its protests at the funerals of soldiers and blatant gay hate speech.
The word on the street is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, plans to give the cigarette industry a fabulous makeover by adding graphic images to tobacco carton labels to encourage smokers to quit their habit.
As a political science major focusing on political philosophy, I’ve been required to read numerous works on the nature of mankind, political associations and the relationships the two have on modern society.
The confetti has long since fallen, the champagne bottles lie empty and the highlighter-green signs that dotted lawns across the state have begun their descent into obscurity.
Former President Calvin Coolidge wisely stated, “The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.” Today we celebrate Veterans Day — a day to honor all the veterans who sacrificially have served our nation.
It is a politician’s job to get elected every two to four years. Once elected, constituents re-elect incumbents overwhelmingly. Given that narrative in American politics, our politicians have very little incentive to take a detailed look at policy measures.
I love to write. It’s what I want to do with my life, although I’m not sure what or who I want to become; a professor in academia, a journalist, a starving poet, an aspiring novelist?
It wasn’t too long ago that I sat down and wrote a piece lamenting the lack of letters to the editor. My exact words were, “Unfortunately, no one writes letters anymore. I don’t only mean in the traditional pen-and-paper way, I mean letters to the editor in general.”
As Election Day results dominated the headlines of newspapers across the state of Michigan this week, I couldn’t help but flip directly to the sports section.
For some, asking for help produces the most demeaning and vulnerable feeling possible. It’s difficult to admit we might not know everything, that we aren’t experts in all subjects and to admit fully and publicly that sometimes we simply do not know.
Arizona’s infamous new immigration law was written and paid for by private prison corporations. The law — SB 1070 — requires law enforcement officials in Arizona to detain anyone who cannot prove his or her citizenship.
Today voters will decide whether to support a millage for Lansing’s Potter Park Zoo. The proposed millage would extend the current Ingham County property tax and raise millions for the local zoo. Without those millions “the Potter Park Zoo cannot survive,” according to Potter Park Zoo Board President Rick Kibbey.
As we get closer to Election Day and the rate of political gaffes and scandals peaks, the voting public has been given the opportunity to observe more reasons why no one on the face of this earth ever should vote for a Tea Party member.
Nine college students in the state of Washington ended up in the hospital earlier this month. Allegedly, they were so sick hospital employees believed they had been drugged. But as it turns out, they had not been drugged at all but had been drinking Four Loko — and evidently way too much of it.
These are the first words of an advertisement posted in July by a 31-year-old Grand Rapids nursing student at her church: “I am looking for a Christian.”
There are few things we agree on in American politics. Much of that is a good thing. Our Founding Fathers crafted our democracy so opposing viewpoints would need to compromise in order to move forward.
While watching a news blurb on the degenerate characters at the heart of the controversy over groups of “religious” barbarians arriving at military funerals in order to protest homosexuality in America, I started to think carefully about the issue of freedom of speech and what it really means.
Halloween, originally called Samhain, was a Celtic celebration to mark the end of summer. Children and adults wore masks and costumes to honor their ancestors while simultaneously protecting themselves from harmful spirits.
Remember the art of compromise? Remember back in the day when people and politicians actually were able to come together and somehow figure out a way to come to some sort of reasonable agreement?
In the past, tattoos were applied for various reasons; the embodiment of magical protection, a relief from pain, a declaration of vengeance, victory, religious belief or humiliation.