Remember when Lassie would always save that darned kid from trouble? A growing battle between pet retail stores and animal rights activists reveals a recent role reversal for the famed dog. The plot has changed, as the new casting call features legisla...

By: Staff Columnist, T.J. Bronson

Nearly ten months ago, I warned that budget cuts to the City of San Diego's public safety would be catastrophic. and nbsp; ...

Iraq has yet to form a stable government, despite the thousands of American and countless Iraqi casualties from war. Billions of dollars have been spent, only to develop a dysfunctional political body and a nigh-incompetent military and police force. S...

San Diego State is an incredible public institution. It has the second highest number of applicants in the nation, one of the greatest study abroad programs in the country and it ranks among the most prestigious California State Universities....

By: Tom Hammel, Opinion Editor

An update on The War....

There is a new recreational drug emerging in the U.S. Spice is a synthetic variation of marijuana that consists of crushed green leaves sprayed with man-made chemicals. When spice is inhaled, it produces a marijuana-like high....

Racists are now running the U.S. Department of Justice. and nbsp;Through its current leadership, the DOJ has become a radical activist group that long ago abandoned pursuing equal justice for Americans. Its recent pardoning of Black Panthers members from ...

By: Andrew Slutzky

It seems fitting that on the same day the Liberty Bell rang to start the reading of the Declaration of Independence, television and film producers were able to pen a colonial win for justice against their oppressive empire: the Walt Disney Company. and ...

By: T.J. Bronson, Staff Columnist

The U.S. has taken the environment out back for a relentless beating as of late. The largest oil spill the nation has ever seen has been splashed all over the news, uncontrollably and nbsp; gushing oil at a rate of thousands of barrels per day into the Gu...

President Barack Obama deserves praise from all Americans, both left and right, for his recent handling of the leadership shake-up in the war in Afghanistan. He's certainly getting it from me this week. Love or hate him, Obama is a man with a strong backb...

By: Patrick A. Glendening, Contributing Columnist

If I were ever in danger of drowning while at my favorite San Diego beach, I would not want my life to depend on the capabilities of a video camera. But apparently, the San Diego City Council thinks this would suffice. and nbsp;...

By: Patrick Walsh, Senior Staff Columnist

The people of California have finally opened the door for a fair election process. This past election day, California voters approved Proposition 14. This was a nonpartisan, responsible move by the Californian voters to shake up the way we elect our poli...

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1. An independent international investigation team has found that North Korea is responsible for the torpedoing and sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean ship, on March 26. Soon after the attack, South Korea announced it was suspending trade with North K...

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1. A BP offshore oil rig caught fire and sank last month and has leaked an estimated 5,000 barrels per day in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers have been missing since the explosion and are presumed dead by authorities. BP estimates that the accident cou...

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Two military officials at the Pentagon have confirmed that head commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, will leave at the end of this summer, when all combat troops are scheduled to leave. This will end the three-year tenure of Odierno, who took control a...

By: Faryar Borhani, Editor in Chief

It's your big two-hour gap between your accounting class and your management class, what do you do? Your house is too far to make a trip back, the library seems stuffy, the gym is too crowded and all the food options on campus fast forward your freshman-1...