Finals are just around the corner and if your life has been anything like mine, tests and papers are a weekly event. It’s hard to get everything done in the all too short day. If you’re a working student, then you know the end of the semester can become hectic.[Read More…]
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Our View-‘Nicklebee’ doesn’t increase high school grad rates
Yee-Haw. Sometimes we need to bite the bullet and admit that educational failures are, well, educational failures. The Daily Forty-Niner has consistently denounced the doomed products of the No Child Left Behind Act — namely for the impacts on every level of education. Almost as if the wild, wooly world[Read More…]
Honest Abe’s Bed-Stimulating money
Our View-‘Educ-Hater’ poses at photo op for job poorly done
Administrators and teachers at Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School in West Long Beach must have been flabbergasted on Saturday during the impromptu celebrity photo op on their campus. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was there to deliver financial news that is mildly refreshing for K-12 public education systems, but doesn’t bode well[Read More…]
This Week in Cartoons-Perez Hilton Miss Calif tongue lashing worse than same-sex haters
Miss California, oh no you didn’t. But you did and now you’ve got to live without your shiny Miss USA crown. Once again, a little thing called freedom of speech came with a high price. In this case, it involved a beautiful woman with no tact and an offended celebrity[Read More…]
Obama movement sort of Orwellian
President Barack Obama is organizing to gain American support to bring the change his administration seeks in the White House. OFA, or “Organizing for America,” is Obama’s new grass-roots movement, which will help bring his policies on energy, healthcare and education about. Obama is the first president to use new[Read More…]
PC creating an anal society
Stop what you’re doing and take a deep sniff of the air around you. You smell that? That’s the stench of political correctness. It’s present everywhere; in sports, advertising and things we avoid saying to prevent “hurt feelings.” And it is really starting to get out of control. The world[Read More…]
Our View- Earth Day: It’s not just another ‘Hallmark holiday’
With all the horrible things that divide the people of the world, it’s vital to remember the one commonality that binds us ¾ we all call planet Earth our home. Yes, this is a simple concept, but sometimes simplicity is the best way to cut through the bullshit and address[Read More…]
Sexual carelessness does not make the religious right
I recently heard the idea that only religion can give life purpose and teach us right from wrong. Religion is said to induce moral behavior by making people accountable to a supreme being. This implies that secular people lack purpose or hope, and must be prone to despair. These commentators[Read More…]
Our View-Tea baggin’ ain’t the same ol’ activity it used to be
Most of us know the circumstances surrounding the Boston Tea Party. Under British, rule we felt unfairly taxed, without a voice. This historic event has been talked about and taught for centuries. It’s a classic symbol of America and our ideals. No taxation without representation. We demand a fair system,[Read More…]