Guest Commentary
Presidential campaign still haunted by dog
When Gov. Mitt Romney was running for the United States Senate in 1994, a local newspaper ran a story describing the way Romney loaded up his “beloved” dog, Seamus, in a crate on the...
It’s a Beauty Contest
The winners of the Miss Universe pageant always have varying degrees of beauty, charm, grace and poise. Jenna Talackova is a contestant who was originally denied a chance to compete in the Miss Universe pageant...
KIPP Academy Changed My Life
In Tuesday’s issue of The Daily Cougar, Lindsay Gary wrote that “KIPP has room for improvement.” I agree with Gary that KIPP has room for improvement, but my experience at Kipp Academy Middle School...
Chance for a chair
The spotlight for the open U.S. Senate position might be on the Republican Party, but the race for the Democratic nomination has also begun and this might be the year that sees Texas turn...
Sensory overload
The internet is a bounty of information, images and video that can be accessed anywhere and any time. The only downside to all the wealth of information is the unbelievably easy access to pornography. The...
He spoke of dreams
I was six when my family came to the US, a couple of years before the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Even at my young age, I was certain that the US was...
Stone of hope
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered before 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 contained the following sentence: “With this faith, we...
Where do we go from here?
I remember my elementary school classroom being brought to the library to watch "The Boy King," a TV drama about young Martin Luther King, Jr. This was most likely in the years between the...
Reflections on MLK and the civil rights movement
I am old enough to remember 1968 very well, but through a child’s eyes. Not that I understood everything, of course. When my mother came out crying and told me as I played in...
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Reauthorize act against violence
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, nearly 20 percent of college women and six percent of college men will become victims of attempted or completed sexual assault. This was made evident last week when...