Monthly Archives: August 2015

Vice President Joe Biden is leaning closer to a bid for the presidency, recently meeting with influential members of his party and hiring a communications director. Biden, 72, looks to jump into a Democratic field upended by candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and plagued by Sec. Hillary Clinton’s weak poll performance.

In Saudi Arabia, women will vote and run for office in their upcoming elections for the first time in the country’s history. Since 2011, when King Abdullah announced the legislation, women have been patiently waiting for this freedom. 

“Talladega Nights.” “Cars.”  “Fast Five.” These are just a few popular movies released within the last decade that are centered on automobile racing. Invading popular culture and winning over the hearts of speedsters everywhere, racing has always had a distinct “cool” factor. Who wouldn’t want to zoom around a track at upwards of 200 mph?…

After the disappointing launches of Windows 8 and 8.1, Microsoft’s latest software, Windows 10, is proving to be a big success, drumming up much press coverage and critical acclaim. 75 million machines are already running this free operating system. Although it offers upgraded multitasking features, a virtual assistant, and automatic updates, some of these additions…

As party lines grow deeper, the gap between them continues to stretch. On the Republican side, candidates who don’t take the most conservative stance are considered the black sheep of their party while the second most prominent Democratic candidate calls himself a socialist.

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A Letter to the Editor, written Maddie Vaziri’16 wasposted to The Columbus Dispatch on August 13, 2015. In response to her letter, three people have either countered or agreed with her opinion. See the following links for more information. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/08/03/nation-fails-to-protect-its-citizens.html?fb_comment_id=878124802274207_878546918898662#f2a3621db Comments to Maddie’s Letter to the Editor: 1. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/08/07/1-bad-guys-not-guns-threaten-tranquility.html 2. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/08/09/1-us-policies-are-a-threat-to-our-safety.html 3. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/08/10/1-writer-should-not-link-NRA-to-gun-free-zones.html

The US Market has fallen more than 500 points in the last few days: a huge fall, which almost seems wrong, for the US economy has been growing at a strong, steady pace for some time now.

Between the newly restructured SAT and the PSAT, you’d think that The College Board would have its hands full, but it also buckled to the critics who challenged the framework of the Advanced Placement United States History class with the 2014 curriculum  (APUSH”) as  not being patriotic enough, and in some cases, it was even…

An elderly man with withered skin and a wiry, white beard parks his truck on High Street. He sits dazed and with an expression of apathy, which appears out of place inside his obtrusive truck on which are  plasters of graphic pictures of abortions and with screams for pro-life slogans in bold red font.