Opinion

I don't know what the White House Correspondents Association was expecting when it picked Stephen Colbert to deliver the final speech at this year's annual White House Correspondents Dinner, but it probably wasn't what actually happened when he did just t

In an effort to curb diabetes in children throughout the nation, major beverage companies have agreed to stop selling soda on middle and high school campuses.

2006 will prove to be the year of '9/11' in Hollywood, with three movies coming out dealing with the tragedy to different degrees: the indirect 'Great New Wonderful,' Oliver Stone's less than subtle 'World Trade Center' coming out later this year and 'Uni

I consider myself an authority on what is funny and what is stupid. It would behoove the reader to follow my advice. 'Brokeback Mountain' was released about four months ago and people are still making jokes about its sheep-herding, homosexual male leads.

Partisan politics has once again leaked into the medical community. The Food and Drug Administration has recently issued a statement declaring that marijuana has no medicinal value and can no longer be prescribed to patients by doctors.

According to an article in the New York Times by Anna Bahney, many recent books and a study by the Institute of Social Research conducted by the University of Michigan, a growing number of parents are financially supporting their children well into adulth

Though the term 'freedom of speech' is one often tossed around on a college campus, it is not to be taken lightly in the case of college newspapers. In March, the California State Assembly passed a bill that granted further protection of the freedom of

The heated and continuous debate over illegal immigration has captured the attention of American legislators, media pundits and average citizens. Unfortunately, a fundamental concept has seemingly been lost amid the vitriolic exchange between such groups

Everybody went to Mexico for Spring Break. Even President Bush and the Canadian prime minister went to discuss immigration and border policy. I, however, was there not to debate immigration, but rather to jump over another border, chiefly the border of Am

It isn't unusual to hear from certain circles of the country these days that there is a determined effort by certain other circles of the country to attack the Christian religion.

'I am a proud Israeli citizen,' said Ishmael Khaldi. 'I am [also] part of the Arab world.' Khaldi, an Israeli bedouin who served as a political analyst for the Israeli Defense Forces and worked with the American Embassy, speaks to

It seems the assurance alone of the familiar idiom 'resting in peace' no longer suffices. Cemetery monument companies like the Cold Spring Granite Company, however, have made sure to resolve this problem by offering their clients large burial mausoleums,