Author Archive for Shawn Augsburger
Indoctrination of Our Youth Can Prove to be Damaging
In the recent protest at the Bren Events Center in response to Arnold Schwarzenegger there was one thing that stood out in my mind: One of the protesters brought her daughter, who was probably about 10 years old, to the protest. I don’t really know what the child knew about the governor’s policies, but I [...]
Hype Over Election Overdone
If you have watched any television in the last nine months you have probably seen a fair number of ads bashing Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger on various pr
We Should Be Wary of North Koreas Promises
Back in 1998, then-former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld led a commission that examined the threat potential of various ‘rogue’ states including
Kansas Debates Evolution
This month the Kansas State Board of Education decided to revisit the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. In 1999, Kansas removed reference
Beefing Up Border Patrol
At the beginning of April, a group of private citizens opposed to illegal immigration who called themselves the Minuteman Project
The Future of File-Sharing Debated
On March 29, 2005, the Supreme Court of the U.S. will hear the case of MGM V. Grokster and StreamCast Networks, the makers of the P2P applications Gro
Summers Entitled to Free Speech
In recent weeks, much has been said about the comments that Harvard president Lawrence Summers made at a conference on Jan. 14 about the possibility t
Proposition 62 is Not a Solution for Low Voter-Turnout
According to proponents of Proposition 62, this initiative would improve voter turnout and give voters more candidates from which to choose, but throu
Alternatives to Microsoft
While we constantly hear about the evils of textbook prices, there is one area where students and non-students are being price-gouged: software from M
Was the Burning of the SAS Wall a Hate Crime?
This year sadly has been a bad year for free speech at UCI. We have seen multiple attempts to vandalize demonstrations of free speech on campus often
