By Trey Mewes on March 26th, 2009
Politics may be an old man’s game, but that doesn’t mean that younger candidates are automatically down for the count when it comes to political elections. After all, one of the big political platforms every election season is how politicians can get more so-called “young people,” involved. Yet often enough, college students that participate in the political process by running for election lose out to an older, more experienced candidate. While this isn’t always the case, it happens enough times to make one wonder: What’s the viability of a student candidate?
“We need …
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By Lukas Gohl on March 7th, 2009
Ranging from assisted suicide to genetically altered food to psychosurgery, the field of bioethics is diverse and of great importance. Every day people grapple with the moral struggles modern science has presented us with. In America, we value our beliefs like we value our identities.
The country’s new shift in political majority likely means a large-scale upheaval of previously enacted social policy. In the midst of this sweeping transformation sit several very important bioethical hot button issues: abortion, stem cell research, gene therapy, and population control, among others. As such, the doors to the …
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By Raghav Mehta on February 8th, 2009
The 2008 election ended in what was considered a landslide victory for the Democratic Party. With the widespread popularity of Barack Obama and them being just shy of 60 senate seats, most Republicans had finally come to terms with the fact that the party was in dire need of a makeover (I’m looking at you Chambliss!). While the GOP is in the midst of a political panic, analysts and other voices in the media continue to speculate on who’ll save the party from spiraling into political irrelevance. Perhaps former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee? There were even whispers about former Speaker …
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By Matt Miranda on November 13th, 2008
After the election, my good Democrat demographic-mates, who were out “Barackin’ it for Obama” and drank “Jag-Obamas” upon his victory, are flush with happiness, hope, and idealism. For a week, I myself almost felt that our troubles were behind us and the best was yet to come.
Cut to Dateline – Washington. When I heard today Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson say on the radio today that there is still a very real danger of “systemic failures in the economy,” the peak-oil survivalist mentality that occasionally grips me like a fever took hold. My god, I thought. It’s going …
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By Jack Spencer on November 3rd, 2008
The activist group Substance celebrated Halloween on Saturday with a haunted house in the Dinkytown Oakeshott Institute, based on the events surrounding the Republican National Convention earlier this year. After progressing past the chaotic RNC terror, patrons were greeted with live music from Kill The Vultures, Gay Witch Abortion, Slapping Purses and Tender Meat. The event helped raise money for the RNC 8 and to pay debts incurred from the Ripple Effect concert that took place during the RNC.
The haunted house portion was swarmed with screaming police officers and accosted protesters. In the …
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By Jacob Miller on October 19th, 2008
“We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.” — Ken Kesey Only three weeks after the chaotic RNC in St. Paul, the Hollywood production “Battle in Seattle,” narrating the 1999 WTO protests, came blockbusting into Minneapolis at the Uptown. In the aftermath of severe police intervention in the anti-war activities in St. Paul, the film’s dramatic representation of similar events drew on our own memory to make a powerful statement on oppositional politics and globalization. While filmmaker Stuart Townsend concludes the film by proclaiming the WTO protests a …
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By Nattie Olson on October 19th, 2008
Recently, Matt Damon compared Gov. Palin and her meteoric rise to fame to a bad Disney movie. It seems that he was more right than he ever could have known: we’ve recently discovered they really are making this movie. One of our writers sat down and recorded a meeting of screenwriters discussing the project.
Writer 1: All right settle down, let’s get to work. We open to the Alaskan Wilderness, serene pines, babbling brooks, blah blah whatever. Music is nice, cheesy sort of, until out of the sky BAM! Appears a helicopter with Sarah hanging out the window, touting …
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By Lorna Hanson on October 3rd, 2008
Why do you like Sarah Palin? “Because she is a good mother,” was one of the many ridiculous opinions I heard during the coverage of the Republican National Convention. What is wrong with the above statement? Let’s look at the question, shall we? “Why do you like Sarah Palin?” was asked by a CBS reporter to random RNC attendees. The question is simple enough, yet there is something hidden there. I bet they were hoping, no, counting on some pretty insane responses. Ask and ye shall receive. The answer: “Because she is a good mother.” What does Sarah Palin being …
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By Alice Vislova on September 20th, 2008
You’re chain-smoking outside a cocktail party on a Saturday night and the conversation turns to politics. Chances are at least 90 percent of the well-spoken socialites around you are pulling their information straight out of their asses. Today, The Wake will help you become a part of that other 10 percent. I know, I know – making opinions based on actual facts is a fresh and dangerous idea. But that’s what we’re all about here – fresh and dangerous.
On Conservation and Energy
Science!
John McCain (R): “I believe climate change is …
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By Joey Peters on May 28th, 2008
The damned, dirty Minnesota grouch Mike Hatch
They’ve done it again: MinnPost is raiding former Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch’s political image as a public servant for the down-trodden, or, to put it another way, reaffirming Hatch’s public reputation as a hot-tempered, hypocritical bastard.
Here are some excerpts from Eric Black’s old-fashioned investigative report that give us an idea of Hatch’s would-be DFL-minded personality:
Hatch took over an office that had been known, under his predecessors, as a national model among AG offices, for striking an …
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By Joey Peters on April 5th, 2008
For the few weeks before the looped YouTube videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright shifted half of the Democratic Presidential coverage to racial matters (the other half of the coverage being focused on the sinking economy), the topic of the talk was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The trade agreement, which was put into law by President Clinton in 1993, restricts obstacles that corporations used to face when they moved their goods between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. It essentially made free trade easier, prompting many U.S. corporations like General Electric to relocate across the border …
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By Arielle Courtney on March 27th, 2008
Illustration by Dustin Nelson
In anticipation of the 2008 election, many serious yet oft-ignored issues have reemerged and exposed themselves to the voting public. There are the perpetually unresolved cases of abortion, religion, states’ rights, education… frankly, the list could go on indefinitely. However, one seemingly played-out but absolutely crucial issue that I think many people are still far too divided over is that of global warming and, by extension, environmental preservation. Unfortunately, people tend to avert their eyes when the “e” word comes up …
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By Joey Peters on March 24th, 2008
In the past few days, news anchors, columnists and cable pundits have been rigorously masturbating over denouncing Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the apparent anti-American jihadist. Decades after Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton, white pundits are still acting as surprised as ever when they see a black man speak out radically against this country.
By Joey Peters on March 17th, 2008
Change?
Pundits and political junkies – from the left and right – have gotten so nostalgic about the Barack Obama bid for Presidency that they’ve started comparing his candidacy to South Dakota Sen. George McGovern’s 1972 bid against Nixon. Sure, like McGovern, Obama has broad youth support and is attempting to surprise the Old Guard Democrats by winning the Presidential nomination. But all comparisons should end there.
Obama is commonly labeled as the heroic anti-war candidate challenging a pro-war Hillary Clinton, in the sense that Obama was against the …
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By Scott Doane on February 8th, 2008
****DISCLAIMER*****: I am not calling Mitt Romney a homosexual. Nor do I have anything against homosexuals or fellatio in general. Romney just did terrible on Super Pooper Tuesday and I like shitty puns. Please do not send hate mail, or do.
It’s 1:00 a.m. and I feel like celebrating Romney dropping out of the race!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!! Why am I awake writing this early?
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose real name is Willard by the way, “suspended” his bid for the White House Thursday after a terrible showing on Super Duper Tuesday’s caucuses and primaries. In a …
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