David Sforza

May 28, 2010

Nexus Provides Open Forum for Discussion

By David Sforza

You will often hear students complain about articles as you’re walking to class and most Letters to the Editor pieces show discontent with the articles on sex, drugs and alcohol.

February 3, 2010

Simple Soundbites Pervade Politics on Both Sides

By David Sforza

In the 21st century, small parts of the American public have worked very hard to put together a strategy to smear the current president. They compare him to Hitler, display him as a monkey, say he's trying to kill grandm...

May 20, 2009

Release of Torture Memos Signals Change

By David Sforza

"We do not torture." That's a line that will go down with Nixon's "I am not a crook." For years we were told by the Bush administration that our country abides by the Geneva Conventions and treat prisoners of war fairly...

April 22, 2009

A Joint Rolled Is a Body Buried

By David Sforza

There is a new blood diamond in international politics. This new product is enjoyed by 25 million Americans on a regular basis. It has led to the death of 6,300 people in one country alone last year. In one city, 1,600 h...

January 29, 2009

Wage Complaints Came at the Wrong Time

By David Sforza

On Jan. 26, 2009, 50,000 people in the United States were laid off. On Jan. 27, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on UCSB's campus asked for a $6,000 raise per employee as unemployment hit ...

January 16, 2009

Madoff Ruling Ridicules Justice System

By David Sforza

Twenty-five years, $50 billion and a $10 million bail. In 25 years Bernard Madoff managed to create a Ponzi scheme of $50 billion, only to get off on a $10 million bail to live in his penthouse as he awaits his trial tha...

November 3, 2008

What Happened to the John McCain I Knew?

By David Sforza

What happened to the John McCain I knew? What happened to the man who fought against dirty campaigns? What happened to the man who called for the immediate closure of Guantanamo Bay and fought against torture? Where is t...

September 18, 2008

Picking on the Pitbull

By David Sforza

Change and experience. Those were the buzzwords of the presidential primaries. And as Sen. Joe Biden called out in the beginning, both those terms are bullshit. It's not about change or experience - it's about action.

May 20, 2008

Schwarzenegger Breaks His Promise to Californians

By David Sforza

"Our systems are at the breaking point now. We need more roads, more hospitals, more schools, more nurses, more teachers, more police, more fire, more water, more energy, more ports... more, more, more. But, we cannot be...

May 9, 2008

Student Wishin’ for Florida and Michigan

By David Sforza

Dear Sen. Barack Obama and his supporters, As a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, I would like to congratulate you on your recent win in North Carolina and your near comeback in Indiana.

April 9, 2008

Government Ignores Lessons of Katrina

By David Sforza

I may be back from Spring Break, by my heart is in New Orleans. On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans around 4 a.m. As a result Lake Pontchartrain swelled up, and at 9 a.m., four hours after the hurrican...

January 31, 2008

Obama Is Great, but as a Running Mate

By David Sforza

I am sick of this "change or experience" debate. When President Bush ran for his first term, he was against nation-building and scaling down the size of the military. The fact is, in order to really tell if someone is go...

January 15, 2008

Reason Strikes Out With WGA

By David Sforza

As a union supporter from a union family, I hope all of you will join me in this statement: Screw the Writers Guild of America.

November 20, 2007

Ron Paul’s Disciples Ignore U.S. Priorities

By David Sforza

The war in Iraq has been a fiasco. Americans want out of Iraq, and they want out of Iraq now.

October 29, 2007

Student Writer Humbled by Prager’s Radio Confrontation

By David Sforza

It's over! Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week has come to an end.

October 23, 2007

Week Ignores Voice of Moderate Islam

By David Sforza

Everyone look out! Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is here! According Aria Miran's article about Horowitz ("National Event Centers on Issue of Radical Islam," Daily Nexus, Oct. 22), Islamic fascism is the greatest threat t...