Upcoming Events

Queens County Young Democrats will be having their November meeting tomorrow the 16th at Mezzo Mezzo in Astoria.  There will be light refreshments served and we’ll be recapping the elections, talking about healthcare reform and more!  If you come please bring a canned good to go to a local food pantry for the holiday season.  [...]

Healthcare is nice, but let’s not forget about reforms closer to home!

The following is part of an ongoing political activism project. My group members and I are trying to raise awareness at St. John’s regarding the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. St. John’s is in compliance with the minimal provisions of the act, allowing for up to 12 weeks of UNPAID leave. For many faculty [...]

The GOP’s Worst Enemy

What the GOP’s doing wrong-and what they should do to fix it.

The War to End All Wars…Again

America must leave the Middle East, and the sooner the better. Capturing Osama Bin Laden was a good idea, but didn’t necessarily require a complete military invasion, and in all fairness to former president Bush, not an easy task to accomplish. But now the goal has apparently changed. The hot new idea thought up by [...]

Crazy like a FOX.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn recently came forward to reveal the patently obvious, that FOX news channel was in effect the propaganda arm of the Republican party and their cynical puppet masters, working tirelessly to whip up primitive patriotism,  support for destructive religiosity, and paranoid post-McCarthy Marxiphobia.
While  the tone she used was  professionally tailored for public [...]

A Nobel Winner?

It’s 2009. We have three years until the world might end– and frankly, it is quite possible. We’re polluting our own atmosphere, the West is at war with the East, the East is at war with itself, thousands die everyday from malnutrition and underdeveloped living conditions. I really don’t know what else could go wrong. [...]

Would you like some Freedom Fries with that McDemocracy?

It certainly is not uncommon to hear of high-ranking policy makers in Washington (among other places) articulating their views on transforming the political, social and economic landscape of the Middle East. What our leaders and their intellectual backscratchers fail to see, however, is that ancient and indigenous civilizations and multifarious peoples cannot so easily be [...]

Religion or Civilization: Why Democrats should support the war in the Middle East.

In 2003, when US marines first invaded Iraq,   I looked on with familiar sadness as death and destruction were brought to me live via CNN, Fox Noise, MSNBC and others. At the time I thought the old PBS line  “This program is made possible with support from viewers like you,” should be shown as  [...]

The Torch Flickers Out: Why burning the next issue of The Torch will be more illuminating than reading it.

Coming to St. John’s University as a first semester Junior, I had long since formed the idea of the ideal college student newspaper. Although it was not a publication of my particular college, The Ithacan, the student newspaper of Ithaca College was at the heart of that ideal.
The Ithacan has won several college newspaper awards [...]

Respect for Rationality largely missing from US political mainstream

Every night the eternal political soap opera machine whirs into action. Millions of Americans , filled with human hopes, and fears, and too often an acute disdain for rationality sit neutrally before their telescreens, waiting to be programmed. Enter Glenn Beck, enter Keith Olbermann, enter the era of postmodern journalism.
In a country farmhouse in [...]