Archive for November, 2009
Personally, I love the idea of universal health care… But I have been accused of being a socialist. Is that really a bad thing? Why is socialism still a dirty word in America?
Six picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kan., stood outside the Cooperman Jewish Community Center on Northfield Avenue in West Orange last Tuesday. The Westboro group, which is opposed to gays, Jews, the US army, and President Obama, spent 30 minutes in West Orange on its two-day tour of New Jersey, which [...]
On Monday October 12, 2009, I was confronted with the question, “Do you really want to be here?” The question, asked by one of my peers, was so relevant to all aspects of my current life. The school year begun, and classes as usual began to intensify before my classmates and I shook off the [...]
Throughout the campaign Barack Obama argued that a vote for John McCain was a vote for a Bush third term and thus he stood for something different. In many ways this stance was legitimate, since becoming president, Obama has campaigned for universal health care, cap and trade, and a foreign policy based on direct diplomacy, [...]
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