The riveting news has shocked both sides of the global warming debate as private e-mails from some pro man-made scientists and researchers reveal that they have been actively skewing their controversial findings.

An unknown person hacked into the e-mail server of the prominent climate-research center, the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England, and stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them on the Web, according to CNN. Some of the e-mails have startling quotes such as ...

Type the words “feminist” and “sex worker” together into the same Google search bar, and a slew of essays, articles and blogs will come up.

A new twist in the young feminist ideologies is the assertion that the sex-worker is the “ultimate feminist.” ...

It’s the end of the semester. Your head is spinning. You have more work than you could possibly handle. The grade you were hoping to receive in a few of your classes may not be in the cards. Any opportunity of graduating at the top of your class and transferring with a scholarship is a distant memory.

What do you do?
A) Throw yourself at the mercy of the   professor.
B) Slip out quietly as if you never set
         foot in the class altogether.
C) Preserve your GPA.
D) All of the above ...

Diversity is a word I find synonymous with Delaware County Community College. All peers are from different walks of life. Your lab partner could be a working single mom and your tutor a Korean exchange student.

In this mix of different cultures and ethnicities it is easy to forget that there are some people here who are still intolerant of those different than themselves.

A few days ago some hate speech was found on a men’s bathroom wall. It read: “I hate Jews call for another holocaust [sic].”

I have chosen not to publish the photo of the graffiti because it is offensive and because of possible emotional reactions it might provoke.

First and foremost, congratulations to President Barack Obama for winning the praiseworthy Nobel Peace Prize. It is certainly a great honor.

But does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

After all, isn’t it a little too early to give the president such an award before we see if his endeavors are successful?

... It almost seems as if Obama was nominated and won in the same way that a high school cheerleader becomes Prom Queen — by popularity alone.

Religion has caused horrific problems since the dawn of man, and continues to do so. In ancient times, the Mayans, in the name of their gods, would torture and kill sacrificial victims, often times babies because they believed children’s tears brought rain.

Today, people would never do such a terrible thing. Or would they?

Some religious groups, such as Christian Scientists, pray to try and heal sick children. Some people of faith will pray while their children suffer and slowly die from some curable ailment, such as diabetes, rather than take them to a hospital and save their precious life with a shot of insulin.

All in the name of GOD.

I don’t know about you, but mold and residue flavored peanut butter doesn’t sound appealing to me – with or without salmonella.

Recent FDA observations of Peanut Corporation of America plant – which was linked to the latest nationwide salmonella outbreak – reveal disturbing findings on just what manufacturers consider reasonable sanitary conditions.

PCA’s failures include knowingly shipping products that were – more than likely – contaminated with salmonella; continuing normal production on contaminated lines without proper cleaning; placing finished products in the vicinity of salmonella tainted swabs; washing hands, utensils and mops in the peanut butter storage room’s sink; storing products in moldy coolers; and, generally, operating dirty production lines in unventilated areas with leaking roofs...

Another weekend comes, and all you have in your pocket to burn is a five dollar bill and a couple of Marlboro Lights.

Seems like the normal college student predicament I’m talking about, right? Wrong. It’s the millions of unemployed, laid off professionals and just plain unlucky folk feeling the financial freeze of the recession...