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Opinion: Restroom rules or an attempt to catalog us?

By Aaron Friedman March 10, 2013

Coy Mathis, a first grade biological male from Colorado, identifies as a girl. She dresses as a girl, her teachers refer to her as female and until recently, she used the girls’ restroom at school. ...

Protesters gather in front of the Capitol in Denver where State Senators are debating seven control bills on Friday, March 8, 2013. Colorado Democrats are on the cusp of passing gun control proposals in a state balancing a history of heartbreaking shootings with a Western heritage where gun ownership is treasured by many. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Opinion: Compulsory gun ownership only way to combat Obama

By Gordon Brillon March 10, 2013

Ever since the Republicans lost the White House, we’ve been warned every day that Big Government is coming for our freedom and our guns. And every day it was dismissed as the ramblings of paranoiacs...

Opinion: Assisted suicide laws deprive citizens of right to die

By Aaron Friedman March 7, 2013

Here’s a question for the trivia fans out there: According to the preamble of our Declaration of Independence, what three “inalienable rights” are all men endowed with by their creator? ...

Opinion: Transparency is needed with domestic drones

By David Scheuermann March 7, 2013

When you play the game of drones, you win or you routinely get spied on by tiny, flying robots. The U.S. Air Marshal Service has experimented with using drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, for domestic...

People wait in line outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, to listen to oral arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. The justices are hearing arguments in a challenge to the part of the Voting Rights Act that forces places with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to get approval before they make any change in the way elections are held. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Court case proves Alabama definitely still racist

By Parker Cramer March 7, 2013

Is Alabama still racist? Is the sky blue? Will the sun rise tomorrow? Shelby County in Alabama, just southeast of Birmingham, is challenging the constitutionality of a federal law. The law requires...

Opinion: Increase in Racial Wealth Gap Reflects Ineffective Public Policies

By Jay Meyers March 6, 2013

We all know this story a bit too well, especially given what week it is.  It’s 6 a.m. The unmistakable jarring sound of your iPhone marimba alarm interrupts that magical, coma-like state of...

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 file photo, England's singer Morrissey performs at the 53rd annual Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile. Animal rights activist and singer Morrissey said he’s canceled an appearance Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, on Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show because cast members of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty” also were scheduled to appear. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Opinion: Former Smiths frontman continues prickly outlook on life, condemns “Duck Dynasty”

By Megan Dunbar March 6, 2013

Louisiana takes a lot of flak in mainstream media for being the second-most uneducated and backward puzzle piece of the South. Now Morrissey has jumped on the critical bandwagon. The former Smiths lyricist...

SAE House

Opinion: SAE incident should incite change in the Greek community

By Chris Grillot March 6, 2013

The term “Southern Gentleman” and Greek fraternal affiliations are synonymous to some at the University. It’s easy to see why. Better men before them founded the organizations to promote...

The sun shines down on the farmland just outside of Mamou, La. somewhere on Highway 104.

Mamou, I’m comin’ home

By Ferris McDaniel March 5, 2013

Surrounded by crawfish fields next to nowhere Louisiana exists a sanctuary, a town abandoned by time, a place I proudly call home.  Mamou, located in the heart of Evangeline Parish, evokes youthful...

Opinion: Texas should be red-faced on family planning

By Gordon Brillon March 5, 2013

It’s usually not too rewarding to be a liberal in the United States. The political spectrum has slowly skewed right over the past few decades, to the point where our president, who would be considered...

A flipped Nissan XTerra rests at West Parker Boulevard and Burbank Drive on Feb. 6, 2013.

Opinion: New traffic signal solves one problem, worsens another

By Ben Wallace March 5, 2013

 “I love traffic!” said no one, ever. Except, maybe, one of the engineers on the joint city-state project that recently added a traffic signal at the corner of West Parker Boulevard...

Zachariah Long (left) and Edward Ritchie protest against a gay-marriage bill in Annapolis, Md., on Feb. 17. The bill passed, but the issue is being put directly to Maryland voters on Nov. 6.

Run to the Mills: Should the federal government allow gay marriage?

By Landon Mills March 4, 2013

Imagine that I, an advocate for traditional marriage, had the power to concede and reconstruct the institution of marriage. This concession would affect legal measures like Louisiana’s constitution...