Opinion
The legality of guns on campus: ‘How is our campus safer by taking away our constitutionally protected right to defend ourselves?’
|Currently, the Supreme Court is considering McDonald v. Chicago which could determine once and for all if state and local governments have the right to restrict and control gun ownership.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees that an individual has the fundamental right to bear arms in the District of Columbia v. Heller case.
If this current gun rights case is overruled, then it is likely that all laws and ordinances prohibiting handguns in states and localities will be nullified.
The smooth operator: Obama employs the art of persuasion
|Everyone in this country uses the art of persuasion; politicians, however, have perfected this art.
Politicians innately possess, or have been taught, the ability to present themselves and their platform in a way that is the most pleasing to their audience.
Finding someone to blame: Identifying the ‘nth level cause’ of climate change
|Who was the first human to discover cause-and-effect relationships, and how quickly did his peers kill him for his heresy?
Until this mysterious human — let’s call him Roger Cavemanson — came along, every action in the world was clearly the work of a capricious god, or possibly a group of such gods. Cavemanson was the first to propose otherwise. For his troubles, he was rewarded with an early grave in a bog.
New age cyberbullying: Next generation of torment or total nonsense?
|There have been many fabulous technological advancements in the last two decades. We have iPods, personal computers and have made fantastic use of the Internet. However, along with these improvements, there are a few inevitable downsides. One such is the practice known as cyberbullying.