While there are a multitude of strategies and tactics being used to garner support for the 2012 presidential campaigns, we seem to always come to the traditional ones of the smear campaigns and electoral mudslinging. This year, one rises to prominence as it seems like the ace in the hole for current president and returning [...]

The wonderful thing about our cultural identity as Americans is that for the most part, Americans are open-minded and accepting of people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It’s fair to say that most people in this country are quick to overlook where a person came from. Ultimately, Americans want the same things out of [...]

How would you feel if you had never done anything wrong and yet you still received an invasive pat-down solely based on your physical limitations? That’s what happened as demonstrated in a video gone viral to a clearly physically disabled, wheelchair-bound toddler in 2010, when the boy received a pat-down from Transportation Security Administration, solely [...]

Freedom of speech, it’s a beautiful right all Americans have, but some people should really consider practicing the freedom to shut the hell up. Tasteless jokes about tragic events don’t ease the pain, it only furthers the gaping holes in humanity. Although it has already been a decade since the Sept. 11 attacks and the [...]

Ten years ago, terrorist attacks shook the nation to its core and distressed many businesses, but none as much as the airline industry. Flight attendants and pilots are at the frontline of the industry and one can only imagine the amount of fear that went through their minds during and after the terrorist attacks. Brent [...]

“Always remember.” “Heroism.” These were just a few words that were repeated in the East Room of the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda Sunday morning. “It’s a wonderful time to stop and reflect on the core values of our country and the unity that makes us one great nation,” said Marilyn Moore, a choir [...]

Sept. 11, 2001: Four hijacked airliners attack America—two strike the World Trade Center in New York City, one strikes the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and one aimed for the White House crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pa. Almost 3,000 lives are lost, including 60 NYC police officers and 343 firefighters. Sept. 13, 2001: President [...]