House Editorial: Scandal shows GOP priorities

If we have learned anything in the wake of former Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) cyber-pedophilic brouhaha, it is that it doesn’t matter if one of your party member likes little boys — what’s important is that no one finds out. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Breaking out of ‘generation why?’
By Marlee Newman, contributing writer

As freshmen, we are swamped with advice on how to survive in the big, bad collegiate world. “You’re in college now,” they say. “You have to start taking responsibility for yourself and the world around you.” More...

Breeze Perspectives Give ninjas the chop
By Kris King, contributing writer

I can’t take it anymore. It needs to stop, and I’m going to be the one who stops it. Ninja humor and its offspring (I’m looking in your direction, pirates) needs to be put to bed forever. Now, don’t get me wrong, I get it. Ninjas are fast and they mercilessly kill their prey without them even realizing it until it’s too late. But guess what? That stops getting funny after seven years of unrelenting ninja references. Now before you get all up in arms and demand that the editors of The Breeze present my head on a platter for attacking such an essential element to college humor, allow me to explain myself in the only way I know how: an overly long, opinionated and pompous editorial. More...

Breeze Perspectives: The dragon’s peaceful rise
By Jeff Genota, contributing writer

This August, House International Relations Committee chairman and Illinois congressman Henry Hyde evaluated current American attention toward Asia: “I fear that a future American generation may awaken from its Pacific slumber to find our influence entirely removed from the Asian mainland.” China’s growing importance was evident last week when the Chinese military successfully tested a state-of-the-art anti-satellite system designed to disable U.S. satellites in event of war. Combined with its increasing international profile, China’s strategy, image and relations with the world’s foremost superpower are in question. As a result, there is a need for restraint and rethinking of the Sino-American relationship on both sides. More...

Between the Lines: Score one for the little guy
By Patrick Callahan, senior writer

In a world increasingly owned and operated by an elite group of corporate giants, the victories of average investors and employees are few and far between. But when they are victorious over the mansion-owning, martini-sipping, sports-car-driving, heartless CEOs who got rich by ruthlessly scamming their own companies — the excitement is equivocal to a late 12th-round knockout punch by a severe underdog. More...   

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