Like most people, I really hate admitting that I am wrong. But I have a very strong feeling that not too many environmentalists will be lining up to make their apologies to the world for their overconfidence.

I would be one of the first people to support reducing or eliminating our need for foreign oil and finding new forms of fuels that are more “earth-friendly.” Yet a recent study that was published in National Geographic is showing that some of the heavily endorsed bio-fuels are actually worse for the environment than good old-fashioned gasoline.

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After Fred Thompson left the race I was left for about two days not knowing who to support. After reviewing the candidates again, I decided McCain was the next best option.

However, many of the talk radio show hosts and several pundits disagreed.

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Women, you can have it all! Isn't that what we’ve been told from day one?

Who cares if you don’t qualify? The entrance standards will be lowered to accommodate you!

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Look out your window. If you can’t see your sidewalk, I’m talking to you. If you can, well then I’m thanking you.

It snows in Wisconsin. This is a well-established fact. When you live here, you should expect to have to shovel your sidewalk.

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I have to admit, there are days when I feel like a flesh-and-blood Eric Cartman when it comes to my opinions on the ’60s. Granted, the free love, music and drugs are pretty much all anyone remembers about them, and I’m sorry to say, those are the only things worth remembering about them.

We can wax nostalgic about the protests and demonstrations until the cows come home, but really, where were the results? The irony that many of these ’60s protestors became the ’80s materialists and the ’00s war hawks is not lost on me, and it’s these facts that explain why there isn’t more of a response to the Iraq War among younger people today. We feel completely let down, screwed over and, frankly, lied to.

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Last week our splendid student government legislative body, the Student Association (SA) Senate, passed a bill called the SA Sedition Act.

Proposed by Sen. Joseph Ohler, it passed with a 10-7-3 vote. According to the bill, any group or individual would be held accountable for releasing libelous or slanderous material. Such actions would result in a cease and desist order from the student government.

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You may have heard of a form of abortion known as “partial birth abortion” (PBA), or alternatively, a D&X abortion. It was banned by congress several years ago. The courts declared the ban unconstitutional until the Gonzalez v Carhart decision upheld the ban in 2007.

The reasons it was previously declared unconstitutional were two-fold. First, it did not have a health exception. Secondly it could be misconstrued to effectively ban another form of abortion, known as D&E, thereby causing what the judges decided was an “undue burden on the women’s right to an abortion.”

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All signs indicate the United States is in the beginning stages of a recession, which is predicted by many economists to be more intense than the early 2000s recession. Surprised? You shouldn’t be; recessions are inevitable under capitalism. In U.S. history, there have been at least 25 so far.

Pre-capitalist societies were plagued by crises of scarcity, but capitalist recessions are actually crises of overproduction. When the market is glutted with commodities businesses cut down on production and layoff workers, which increases job competition and lowers the average wage; which means the working class will earn a smaller wage; which makes it harder to buy up those extra commodities on the market.

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Subprime loan crisis
In response to your article “The Subprime loan crisis” posted in the Feb. 11th edition of the post, I would like to ask Carlo Albano what has happened to personal responsibility in this country. I bought a house when I was 21 years old; I had “good credit” and did my homework, I didn’t have a college degree and had the same resources as a majority of the people you claim in this article were racially targeted.

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