Staff Editorial
Women not allowed to speak on birth control
In a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing last week over President Obama’s mandate to eliminate co-pays for birth control, women learned something interesting: An all-male panel knows more about their bodies...
Religion has no place in presidential campaigns
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum would like to see America on its knees — in prayer. The financial crisis has already left America in more of a prostrate position, so lifting the nation onto its...
Aggie tries to change outdated tradition
Texas A&M is a university that prides itself on its traditions, many of which have existed with little change since the founding of their university. Samantha Ketcham, a senior at A&M, wants to radically...
No apology needed for chimichanga tweet
A tweet about a chimichanga and Latino voters by Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, has Republican leaders in Washington crying foul. There’s just one problem with their cries of liberal racism — the...
City of Houston gives Occupy the boot
Occupy Houston was evicted from Tranquility Park last night after having occupied the space for over four months. The protestors were asked to clear the park to make way for festivals that will soon...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee does not deserve recent attack
Described by some of her former staffers as the worst boss in Washington, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is rarely out of the national spotlight. And while she is often justly attacked by the...
Show Cougar pride by wearing school colors
Tomorrow is Friday. What are you going to wear? If you are a proud Cougar your answer should be “red.” Cougar Red Friday is a fairly new tradition to hit the University, but that...
Same-sex couples one step closer to marriage
Here comes equality — a decision by a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has brought same-sex couples in California one step closer to tying the knot and marriage equality in...
Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate
As they passed around potato chips during commercial breaks this Sunday, Michigan fans of the Superbowl were subjected to a brazenly ethnocentric and inappropriate campaign ad — an ad so inappropriate it makes MIA’s...