• "The popular habit of connecting and labeling everything Arab or Palestinian to terrorism, intolerence and evil is a dangerous road to walk down."
    Imaan Ali
  • "If they haven’t really changed their own lifestyle, we will see right through their green-tinted surface to their material lifestyle, and won’t be inclined to follow their lead. Why should we?"
    Kimberly Schmahl

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Glenn Beck: Circa 422 B.C.

By Zach Rybarczyk
 

Back to the Traditional Ways

By Ricky Straker

I’ve always been under the impression that the news is supposed to be unbiased . . . It’s not supposed to try to make the viewers believe one person over another or trust one person’s opinions above all the rest. That’s not news; that’s discussion about the news.

 

The Dangers of Social Networking Sites

By Chelsea Bates

These sites influence our maturity level, health, and affection towards others. Social networking sites can be extremely beneficial; however, we also need to be able to recognize the negative scenarios that can occur.

 

Because It's Not Very Nice

By Cate Fricke
A child who grows up being spoken to as though his opinions and his thoughts are valid is a child who will do great things with them. If we doubt children’s ability to understand the darker and more complex issues of our society, then they will grow up believing that they have no responsibility of their own to improve it.
 

Pushing Palin from Power

By Chrissy Knopp
Instead of being promiscuous like the Palin doll, the Obama action figure consists of broad shoulders, a tiny waist, and its hands on its waist. Why is the media portraying Palin as the slut and Obama as the super hero? The answer is simple: because she is a woman.
 

Bill O'Reilly Does Not Own Bias: The Young Turks Spin Racism and West Virginia

By Chris Belcher
Perhaps we do use these derogatory terms as a mental crutch of sorts – a fruitless effort of developing some sort of quasi-understanding of a subject so unknown to many of us that we have no other means of trying to simplify it.