Shaeffer Bannigan

May 11, 2009

Prop 1A Is Just More of the Same

By Shaeffer Bannigan

Proposition 1A is a Trojan horse. It promises allocations of funds for education and infrastructure upkeep in a coordinated effort to decrease the state deficit. This is unfortunately not going to happen with business co...

April 27, 2009

The Case Against Legalizing Marijuana

By Shaeffer Bannigan

Many people blame the government for the war on drugs because the government refuses to legalize the drug. But the war on drugs isn't as shortsighted as proponents of legalization would like to think. Legalizing marijuan...

April 13, 2009

Chats With Iran Won’t Work

By Shaeffer Bannigan

For those of you who haven't heard, Iran has turned its nuclear power plant program -- established, ironically, by the U.S. in the 1950s -- into a nuclear bomb program. The country had concealed its nuclear activities fo...

February 23, 2009

Obama Failed to Bridge the Partisan Gap

By Shaeffer Bannigan

The promise of hope and change that engulfed the '08 campaign has so far failed to materialize and seems more like rhetoric of an easier time. Just three months ago, the promise was eliminating "business as usual," estab...

February 9, 2009

Package Will Stimulate Nothing

By Shaeffer Bannigan

It started at some $150 billion figure and then grew over the months to its current standing of something like $825 billion. It is a sum of money targeted toward various efforts to create jobs and turn this nation's econ...

January 26, 2009

Obama Must Expose Politicians

By Shaeffer Bannigan

Upon being elected America's forty-fourth President, Barack Obama addressed the people of America with graciousness and humility. From a historic standpoint, he has become an icon of American civil rights; from a politic...

November 24, 2008

Right Said: Hope for the Homeless

By Shaeffer Bannigan

An estimated 3.5 million people experience homelessness in a given year. The number of homeless shelters being constructed has increased since last year and is expected to continue rising. Fortunately, through this dark ...

October 13, 2008

Rhetoric Cannot Fix Economic Woes

By Shaeffer Bannigan

As Senator Obama puts it, the current economic crisis is a result of problems initiated by the Bush administration and supported by the deregulatory standards of Sen. John McCain over the past eight years. McCain states ...