Paul Jones

April 22, 2011

Human Logic Incapable of Disproving the Existence of God

By Paul Jones

The “Ask an Atheist” column in last Friday’s edition of the Nexus featured Connor Oakes, Tyler Santander and Cameron Moody, who put forth a variety of arguments positing that suffering in the world disproves the ex...

January 25, 2007

University Should Consider A.S. Control Over Funds

By Paul Jones

The 'pardon' temporarily granted to the Daily Nexus by the president of A.S. is portrayed in the Santa Barbara News-Press as a grand display of leniency. In truth, the Associated Students Legislative Council is the organ...

November 27, 2006

Dens Prove No Party Is Perfect

By Paul Jones

Being a Republican at UCSB is a little trying at times. Most of your friends are liberal Democrats. So are most of your professors.

November 21, 2006

Council’s Abortion Decision Allows Baby Death

By Paul Jones

There is a convention in modern debating known as "Godwin's Law." Simply put, it states that as an argument progresses, it is increasingly likely that one of its participants will compare their opponents' ideas to those ...

September 29, 2006

Media Distorts War in Iraq With Leaks

By Paul Jones

A declassified version of the leaked National Intelligence Estimate's "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States" assessment is out, and pundits who claimed it showed Iraq's democratic transition to ...

January 25, 2006

Columnist Undermines Constitution

By Paul Jones

In response to Matt Cappiello's column "Alito Contructs Mediocrity" (Daily Nexus, Jan 24.), Mr. Cappiello makes numerous statements about the Constitution and the methodology for its interpretation, which ring fundamenta...

January 13, 2006

Corruption Zig-Zags Partisan Line

By Paul Jones

In response to Heather Buchheim's article, "The Straw That Broke the Elephant's Back," (Daily Nexus. Jan. 11) it is gratifying to see some well-deserved criticism of the Congressional Republicans' shameless surrender to ...

November 17, 2005

Military Recruiter Opponents Don

By Paul Jones

So let me see if I get this straight: Chris Trenchard's piece "Rogue Inquiry Evades Prod" (Daily Nexus, Nov. 15), the one where he shadow boxes a fictitious caricature of a U.S. Army recruiter (and unsurprisingly wins),...

October 25, 2005

Benefits Outweigh Costs of Keeping Soldiers in Iraq

By Paul Jones

Here's a question for you: rounded to the nearest kilo, how many troops have died in Iraq? Two thousand, as we all know. Here's another: How many more hours of electricity does the average Iraqi home get now than under S...

October 18, 2005

Criticism of Stein Sophomoric

By Paul Jones

This letter is in response to Monday's letters "Ben Stein Confuses What It Means to Be an American" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17) and "Republicans Wasted Their Money Bringing Stein to SB" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17). I love bigotry ...

October 18, 2005

Jackson To Voice Proposition Views

By Paul Jones

Former three-term 35th District California Assembly Member Hannah-Beth Jackson will present her views on the Nov. 8 special election propositions in the Women's Center Library today at 4 p.m.

January 24, 2005

Egocentric Dems Should Accept Election Results

By Paul Jones

This is a letter to all the protesters who walked out of class last week. Why are you so disappointed with a democratically elected president? After the 2000 presidential election, everyone was so pissed about how Bush d...