Category: "National"

Will the iPad Revolutionize Higher Education?

The impact that Apple’s latest gizmo will have on education is yet to be seen. But barely two weeks since we got our hands on a device, its clear that the iPad has the potential to fundamentally change how students attend college.

read more

Magazine Preview: Insuring the Invincible, Part I

Part One of a Two Part Series Over the last few months, the most prevalent issue in the national political discussion has been President Obama’s crusade to reform our broken health care system.  As one of the only developed industrial nations without a universal health care system, the United States ranks shockingly low on many [...]

read more

The Marburger Interview

Think Magazine scored an exclusive, hour-long interview with former Stony Brook University President and former science advisor to President George W. Bush John H. Marburger. In Think’s office, he discussed a wide range of topics, from the planned hotel to his time in the Bush White House. Watch the videos here, only with Think.

read more

Election Day 2009 Brings Mixed Results

So, it’s that time of the year again: Election Day has come and gone, and its time for politicos of all stripes to analyze — and spin — the results. As an “off year” with few state races and no federal races other than special elections, 2009 leaves us with relatively little to talk about. [...]

read more

Hate Crimes Are Acts of Terrorism

Today President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, expanding the federal government’s power to prosecute hate crimes to include crimes committed on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability, and further expanding its existing powers to prosecute crimes committed on the basis of [...]

read more

Is the GOP Fading Away?

Republicans are falling left and right. They have lost nearly 70 seats in congress over the last three years. And they could lose even more in 2012. Is this the end of the GOP as we know it?

read more

Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court

President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday morning to fill the seat on the Supreme Court bench that Associate Justice David Souter vacated several weeks ago.

read more

Huckabee’s War on Maria Sotomayor

Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee joined the far right fringe-dwellers this morning in attacking President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. At least that’s what we presume Huck was trying to do. Instead he launched a ruthless and full-fledged campaign against a poor woman named Maria Sotomayor.

read more

Not So Super Bowl

A beer company that contributes to conservative causes stands to gain the most on Super Bowl Sunday.

read more

ACORN and the GOP

ACORN was just another example of a GOP boogieman that failed to resonate with the American people.

read more