All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
Education: To Tax or Not to Tax
According to the California Budget Project, between 1987 and 2010, the top one percent of California earners saw their incomes increase by 82 percent. The bottom 20 percent of earners, meanwhile, saw their incomes drop by 18.8 percent. Don’t be confused: the top one percent do not now work 82 percent harder than they did [...]
Ode To Obama
This presidential election is the first one in which I am old enough to vote, and I am proud to say that I am standing behind President Obama. Why? Because he simply gets it in a series of important issues. (I want to make it clear that the order of the issues does not indicate [...]
Attack of the Super PACs!
Dear Proposition 32 proponent, I’m just going to say it like it is. You are not a smart person. I understand that I shouldn’t be making dispositional attributions about you, but really, you’re about to make a terrible, terrible decision. You want to vote to de-voice workers across the state, while maintaining that major corporations [...]
Education: To Tax or Not to Tax
I’ve heard many things about Proposition 30, both in and out of the classroom. I’ve heard good, bad and even some questionable things. So I did some fact checking. Prop. 30 calls for an increase in taxes for the next eight to nine years for certain salary brackets. It is written so that anyone making [...]
Run With Romney
We live with the perception that our views are somehow on a higher moral ground than the views of our opponents. For example, if someone is against abortion, he is, by default, against women’s rights, or so many of us conclude. If you are a political-science-majoring college student who reads the New York Times proudly [...]
‘Til Death Do Us Part
It’s explained on your voter’s ballot, it’s described on the flyers you got in the mail and it’s written on those papers activists pass out on campus that (unfortunately) go unread into the trash. Proposition 34 “[r]epeals [the] death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” according to the California [...]
Endorsement: Yes on Prop 30
It’s no secret that Americans are hurting. Money is tight, education is in danger, political debate seems to be at an all-time high. In the middle of it all, we’re here at UC Irvine, a place of higher education; the future is in the hands of the students. We’re the future, like it or not. [...]
‘Til Death Do Us Part: Prop 34
There are currently 3,170 people in the United States set to face execution at some point in their life, barring an early death or a good lawyer. Despite doling out 880 death sentences between 1977 and 2010, California has only executed 13 prisoners, and should Prop. 34 pass this November, it will never reach 14. [...]
Universal Education
Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen-year-old girl from Pakistan, was shot in the head and neck while on a school bus by the Taliban “for being a symbol of infidels and obscenity” and promoting “false propaganda.” So what slander was she endorsing? Basic education for women. Yousafzai has been a prominent advocate of women’s rights since the [...]
Campaign Corner: Master Debaters Ep. 3
President Obama and Governor Romney got a taste of something sweet as Candy Crowley hosted the second presidential debate of election season. The two candidates participated in a town hall-style debate with 82 uncommitted voters, who asked a variety of questions on foreign and domestic policy. The forum opened up with a question from a [...]
