1. Missing out on scholarships and Financial Aid
You might be surprised at the amount of people who don’t take full advantage of financial aid to pay for college. Plenty of people miss paying for...
Washington, D.C. — where senators and congressmen dressed in dapper, hand-tailored business suits drove poor and middle class Americans into economic captivity. The metaphoric prison is located billions...
As far as the Pentagon is concerned, you don’t need to know what goes on inside Guantanamo Bay. In fact, you don’t even need to know what goes on inside Angola Prison.
Pentagon officials are...
Sitting around complaining about how terrible our government is won’t solve anything. It’s time to start making sacrifices because, as they say, teamwork makes the dream work.
This has been...
Texas, the land of the free and the home of the 72 ounce steak dinner. As the saying goes, everything is bigger there, from the personalities to the hats.
Lawmakers in the Texas legislature are also...
Depending on who you ask, June 2013 was either the beginning of the end of unethical U.S. government surveillance or the time a traitor jeopardized the future of U.S. intelligence. However, few people...
Sen. David Vitter is attempting to use a bill intended to fight human trafficking to rob people born in the United States of their Constitutional right to citizenship.
In January, Senate Majority Whip...
Opelousas Chief of Police Donald Thompson asked the city council to ban sagging pants, showing that racism is still alive in Louisiana.
People who break the ordinance could pay up to $200 in fines and...
A pair of proposed laws in Iran would reduce women to “baby-making machines.”
Amnesty International has decried the laws, which are designed to limit women’s reproductive choices....
Credit is one of those things in life that’s easy to screw up while you’re young and hard to correct when you’re older.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column discussing how to use credit...
“Bold Not Broken: Queer Resilience in the South” served as the passionate theme for this year’s Louisiana Queer Conference. Instead of focusing on any one issue, such as marriage equality,...
To preserve the right of its users who visit the website on a monthly basis, Wikipedia announced Wednesday it was suing the National Security Agency. This announcement made me question why more people...
