Handcuffed, leg shackled, and left tied up to a pole for three hours, a Baltimore man felt the power of the Patriot Act because he made a purchase with a fistful of two-dollar bills: his name was Mike Bolesta.
America is a fast food nation. I know that's a cliché and I'm sure we're all tired of hearing about it, but can we deny it? Look at our culture, our eating habits and our best-seller lists ("The Complete Atkins Diet" has been in the top 10 for what seems like years!).
Everything was going well on Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at Rollins College until approximately 9:30 pm when Campus Safety received report of an alleged sexual battery at Cornell Social Sciences (CSS). A month into the investigation, the forensic evidence and discrepancy in the woman's story led police to believe that she had not been raped.
Recently, news networks and politicians alike have been blasting President Bush for his Social Security Reform Bill. With all of these negative comments flying around, one must wonder what the bill actually says and why there's such an unenthusiastic public reaction surrounding it.
On May 15 I will receive my college diploma and leave Rollins as a college graduate prepared to enter the real world. I think I can safely say that I am the only member of the Rollins graduating class of 2005 who is joining the Army after they graduate.
I cannot let this go on any longer without saying something about it. I knew it would happen. I just did not expect the magnitude to which it happened. For the past few months, I have been receiving mountains of hate mail and negative responses to the articles that I write about my conservative musings in this newspaper.
While working a short contract up in Tallahassee, I had plenty of time to kill on weekday afternoons. Driving around I found the Florida Lottery headquarters and obtained a free, stapled document available there in the lobby. My objective was to see if there was any way to "beat the system," if money were no object and time was unlimited - what would be the process to produce a guaranteed jackpot winner.