So I was sitting around the other night playing GoldenEye (the classic Nintendo 64 version, not the crappy remake) contemplating the legal and ethical ramifications of shooting Xenia Onatopp repeatedly...

Last week, the Supreme Court issued some of the more important and controversial decisions of our time. Americans will see changes in health care and immigration, as the court upheld most of the Patient...

"They" killed the ethanol blender's credit and the biodiesel tax credit, and now, they are going after preventing the U.S. military from using biofuel, blocking commercialization of E-15, and...

The Supreme Court decision in United States v. Alvarez is a victory for free speech and common sense. The Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a crime to falsely...

The Internet generation is growing and with it comes the roar of extroverted, uninformed, and easily swayed teenagers looking to carve their way in the world one bickering debate (if we are going to use...

Just across the Atlantic, economic hell has been breaking loose in Europe. The economic hell that I'm referring to is the numerous European countries whose economies are hanging by a thread. Although...

Occupy Iowa City start in early September 2011, when a few friends told the police that no, they would not leave the park. About four days later, the tents started to go up — and they kept going, all...

No Compared with most of the other nations of the world, America has a very forgiving society. We as a nation have made it possible for criminals to receive a second chance after serving time for the...

I'm sorry to inform you that Jerry Sandusky's possible 424 year sentence will be one served like the pills that could have came for his "histrionic personality disorder" — tightly contained,...

Amid the flap over what was supposedly wrong the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday to throw out Montana's 100-year-old campaign-spending limits, can we take a moment to consider what was right about...

For the University of Iowa students who prefer drinking as their No. 1 activity, downtown Iowa City offers more than enough places to fulfill that desire. From Summit to Sports Column to Airliner to Union,...

On June 20, the greatest nation in the world successfully launched an Atlas 5 rocket to shuttle a spy satellite into space — which is totally awesome. More awesome yet was that the launch marked the...