"This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but this is the fight we're in." Nothing else in President Bush's State of the Union Address sums up the war in Iraq better. Three years after Bush announced "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the USS Abraham...

President Bush is making an encouraging step in the right direction to improve health care by giving working families a tax break. Bush proposed a standard tax deduction Tuesday for health insurance in his State of the Union speech. The president said...

President Bush will need to find some way to make money grow on trees if he intends to make good on one of his State of the Union Address promises. Bush contended Tuesday he will soon send a budget to Congress that will "cut the deficit in half over the...

An energy crisis is steadily approaching, and swift and decisive action is imperative. In the 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush said "America is addicted to oil." One year later, we are just as hooked. Our country has not yet had the intervention...

In the distant future, when anthropologists unearth the fossilized remains of our nation, the records of presidential State of the Union addresses will paint a picture of a unified and uplifted country. Videos will characterize our people as being prone...

It's an excuse that seems to be getting as popular as the old, "the dog ate my homework" routine. First, Mel Gibson and his bottle of Tequila veered down Pacific Coast Highway, got pulled over and started slurring - literally - insults about Jews. His...

The United States is long overdue for universal health care as one of the few industrialized nations lacking nationalized health care. As college students, it is easy to take health for granted. Only when one is sick do they realize what horrors loom...

Talk about a rough 24 hours. First, NIU head coach Joe Novak gets trampled by TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl, then he loses his right-hand man. In case you hadn't heard, NIU assistant coach and offensive line coach Sam Pittman was hired as the offensive line...

Josh Wolf is not a journalist in the traditional sense. He is 24 years old, a resident of California, a video blogger and a self-proclaimed anarchist. Many serious journalists might roll their eyes or shrug their shoulders at him based on that description...

Imagine a son pleading with his mother to give him money to go to the toy store. The mother agrees, but instead of giving him a set amount of money, tells him to spend whatever he needs to, and that she'll approve or disapprove of that amount after he's...

Four days after Mother Nature dropped just under a foot of snow on DeKalb, NIU's campus was still a white mess. A solid layer of white covered areas where sidewalks were supposed to be. Many student's cars were barricaded in by snow, and everyone was...

Women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population, according to 2000 U.S. Census data. Women make up 15 percent of the U.S. Senate and about 16 percent of the House of Representatives. If slightly more than half of the country's population is female,...