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Common Cents: Wal-Mart’s benefits overwhelmingly outweigh its costs

By Daniel Morgan
Columnist
January 14, 2009

For many morally minded college students, shopping at Wal-Mart is their wallet's guilty pleasure. Wal-Mart has made life harder for union leaders, community organizers and owners of traditional mom and...

Freeman of Speech: Always destruction of small businesses – always

By Eric Freeman, Jr.
Columnist
January 14, 2009

"They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet, their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on.""And we're next."When President Whitmore's (Bill Pullman)...

History repeats itself in Gaza

By Russell Witham
Senior Staff Columnist
January 14, 2009

On Sep. 11, 2001 at 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.  In the following hours, a stunned American public watched as iconic symbols of our...

Wal-Mart’s benefits overwhelmingly outweigh its costs

By Daniel Morgan
Columnist
January 14, 2009

For many morally minded college students, shopping at Wal-Mart is their wallet's guilty pleasure. Wal-Mart has made life harder for union leaders, community organizers and owners of traditional mom and...

Gray Matters: Humanist community offers church without God

By Matthew Albright
Columnist
January 13, 2009

Have you ever found yourself visiting a church and telling yourself, "Wow — look how great this church is. I wish I had someplace I could send my kids that would be this caring — but I don't...

Freeman of Speech: Illinois surpasses Louisiana as corruption capital

By Eric Freeman, Jr.
Columnist
January 13, 2009

Living in Louisiana is a lot like being on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras: none of the abundant, scandalous activity surprises anyone —  only because everyone looks like they're having a great...

Louisianimal: Louisiana still upstages Illinois in corruption

By Daniel Lumetta
Opinion Editor
January 13, 2009

Louisiana is the most corrupt state in the nation, according to a Department of Justice congressional report in 2006.Some say the Big Easy — or, more appropriately, the Big Sleazy — should...

Metairie’s Finest: How the national ego, media nearly killed Mychal Bell

By Travis Andrews
Columnist
January 12, 2009

In one of the most clichéd exchanges in popular culture, Uncle Ben tells Peter Parker (Spiderman), "With great power comes great responsibility."This credo is used frequently in precautionary newspaper...

View from Another School: Advice offered for keeping New Year’s resolutions

CORVALLIS, Ore. (U-Wire)  —I am not going to BS you all here. It is hard to keep those New Year's resolutions. While I am no expert at advice or keeping the goals I set, I do have some...

Murda, He Wrote: United States’ image likely to change in years ahead

By Mark Macmurdo
Columnist
January 12, 2009

There's no question the world has looked at us differently during the past few years. Although we gained a great deal of sympathy after 9/11, America's image has been damaged by numerous headlines —...

Perfect Dystopia: India should wage war, end terrorism in Pakistan

By Dini Parayitam
Columnist
January 12, 2009

In January 2002, then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pledged he would not allow terrorists to operate from Pakistani soil. Leaders have changed since then, but no actions have been taken by Pakistan...