This Pew survey released yesterday (fun graphs included!) shows a decrease in support for conservative positions and Republicans.
Just when it seems like the Bush Administration can’t take another hit, a scandal erupts. It seems like no laws were broken, which begs the question, is there a problem?
Q: Where would you find Christian fundamentalists supporting a student who, at a school event, displayed a sign that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”?
A: At the U.S. Supreme Court.
As you, your professor, The Daily Cal, and probably even your mom already know, Barack Obama paid a visit to our fair Bay Area last Saturday afternoon to give a speech outside of Oakland City Hall. I arrived at 12th Street around 12:30 in the afternoon to help sell t-shirts, buttons, and stickers for the campaign, and although the gates for the event didn’t even open until 3:00 (not to mention the fact that Obama himself didn’t begin speaking until around 4:30), crowds were already lined up around the block by 1:30!
Last night, in a lecture entitled “Religion and Freedom of Speech: Cartoons and Controversies,” Yale law professor David Boies provided insightful analysis of the tensions between freedom of speech and the regulation of offensive material.
Post focused on the recent controversy over twelve editorial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Rather than arguing whether the Danish paper was correct in publishing them, he discussed what the legal repercusions should have been, in relation to both European and American law, and how this issue is representative of a very basic tension existing in all democracies.
When I arrived on the Berkeley campus this fall, I assumed everyone listened to NPR. I was wrong. I was shocked to learn that even many members of Cal Dems don’t listen to NPR! Now, I completely understand that radio is antiquated even by the standards of my parents’ generation, but NPR is quite possibly one of the best, if not the best, way of disseminating information—especially for people like college students who are always on the go. Podcasts make NPR more accessible than ever. For instance, on my way to class and to meetings I listen the greatest show ever, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: The NPR News Quiz. When other Cal students ask “What the hell is that?” I just about fall to my knees and pray to Carl Kassel, the famed and godlike moderator of Wait Wait.
