End Guantanamo Bay hunger strike?

Folding to a mob is the greatest sign of weakness an entity can show, whether it be a government or a company. At Guantanamo Bay prison, hunger strikes have become the preferred method of protest to show the government and outside organizations that the conditions of the prison are substandard.

These hunger strikes, like most methods of protests, are nothing more than an illusion of power. They cannot accomplish anything if the group protested against shows strong character and does not bend to the whims of the protesters. [Read article]

End Guantanamo Bay hunger strike?

The current hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is the fourth in the past four years and the second this summer.

The first strike this summer ended when the military agreed to improve the conditions at the camp. But the prisoners continued to be mistreated.

Prisoners there have routinely been denied religious freedom, have undergone tortuous interrogation methods, and have not been charged with any crimes (only four of the 500 total prisoners at Guantanamo have ever been formally charged with anything). The desperation among prisoners reached such heights that they felt their only choice was to go back on a hunger strike. [Read article]

The best that money can buy

True, the inner workings of student government are somewhat mundane, but it seems like everyone's got an opinion about the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate's latest expenditure: a $1,200 trip to Denver for a leadership conference. Apparently, the very students who so confidently touted their leadership skills in last year's senate campaigns now need $1,200 to, well, brush up on their leadership skills. "We need the best leadership that we can afford," stated one senator, apparently unaware that most students had elected the senate on the outlandish premise that they might already have such skills and that leadership is generally not a quality that can be bought or sold with a pricey trip to the Mile-High City. For this apparent lack of vision, the ASUA Senate gets a Fail. [Read article]

Intelligent design a credible scientific theory

I strongly disagree with Alan Eder in his column "Creationism repackaged." Intelligent design is no more an issue of faith than evolution. Both theories start with an unproveable faith premise - intelligent design that an intelligent designer established life, and evolution that no one established life. However, intelligent design actually sticks to proven facts in its analysis of the facts, rather than supporting its arguments by pointing to unfound fossil evidence as Darwin and most evolutionists do today (an act of faith, if you ask me). [Read article]