What happens when your candidate doesn’t win an election? You secede from the Union, of course. In response to the recent presidential election, petitions seeking peaceful secession from the Union were initiated at the “We the People” website, a forum created by the White House affording Americans the ability to engage their government. At approximately 4:22 p.m., Nov. 13,...
You’ve probably noticed all those club posters that cover the doors of the building directly across from the HUB. I’ve stopped and looked at the posters many times but never did I wonder what was behind the doors that the posters were covering. There is a student lounge located on the second and part of the first floor where...
The war in Iraq was said to be all about oil, oil, oil. Many were certain that the United States’ dependency on the product would never cease. Although the country’s reliance on the commodity is not predicted to completely dissipate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has recently announced good news for Americans. The IEA’s chief economist said at a...
We are now in the eighth week of the fall quarter, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Thanksgiving has always been an awkwardly placed holiday, occurring only on Thursdays with no conveniently placed Saturday or Sunday to form a long weekend. In the case of UCR and some employers, an additional Friday is shoddily pasted to the Thanksgiving...
The month of November has a variety of meanings for people. For some, it is the unofficial beginning of Riverside’s rainy season, when the Santa Ana winds pick up and rip papers away from the hands of unsuspecting passerby. For others, it is the frenetic period of studying, cooped up in the Rivera Library with a very strongly caffeinated...
It all begins in August, the month that generously bestows hundred-degree temperatures and humidity upon the country’s population. Apparently, to some stores like Hallmark, this warm month of August is the perfect prelude to the season of warm hot chocolate and cheerful frolicking in the snow. Yes, the month that scorches us with those pleasantly high temperatures seems like...
There is an indescribable feeling involved when one flips through the beige-colored pages of the printed word. The first time someone reads the black, bolded letters as they let the sheet’s edges crisply glide over their fingertips from page to page is like warm sand running through one’s hands at the beach on a hot summer’s day. Personally, I...
Last month, big oil, mining and gas, hiding behind The United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), demanding the right to bribe foreign countries and return to the days, 35 years ago, when more than 400 United States corporations bribed...
Between the hours of 12:20 and 2:00 am, on election night in 2004, an electronic swing of more than 300,000 votes switched Ohio’s electoral votes from John Kerry to George W. Bush, and nothing could be done. A federal injunction was issued, but 56 of Ohio’s 88 counties had destroyed election records, making a recount impossible. It should be...
Political consulting got its start back in 1933 when Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter founded Campaigns, Inc. Campaigns, Inc. started out running campaigns for businesses and monopolies like Standard Oil. Their big debut was working against Upton Sinclair, controversial author of the novel “The Jungle”, in his 1934 bid for governor of California. Sinclair was on the California ticket...