Kudos to Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin and his 35 colleagues who voted against House Resolution 867, a resolution that condemns the Goldstone report on Gaza and again blindly takes the side of Israeli aggression. The UN report that was published by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, a supporter of Israel, found that both [...]
March against the death penalty
Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 The Daily Texan Would you oppose the death penalty if it were proven that Texas has executed an innocent man? If so, remember this name: Cameron Todd Willingham. He was innocent and Texas executed him. There are plenty of executed death-row inmates with strong claims of innocence, such as David [...]
Firingline: Support Keller impeachment
Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 The Daily Texan Sharon Keller denied Michael Richard’s constitutional rights when she closed her courtroom at 5 p.m. and refused to accept his last-minute appeal (“Representative initiates efforts for impeachment of Sharon Keller,” April 28). Justice is not a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. issue, and everyone deserves a fair [...]
Does UT have a liberal agenda? Campus bias wildly sensationalized
By Hooman Hedayati Daily Texan Guest Columnist Right-wing culture warrior David Horowitz has come out with yet another anti-academic-freedom book and accompanying campus tour. The book, “One-Party Classroom,” is a virtually unreconstructed rehash of his previous books, “The Professors” and “Indoctrination U.” In these works he announces the shocking news that they teach feminism in [...]
Nowruz 1388 Scuba Diving Video
Finally the Scuba video I promised you.
Keller needs to go
First published by The Daily Texan on March 4, 2009 In 2007, I was one of the 1,900 people and several groups who filed a judicial complaint against Judge Sharon Keller. I waited, somewhat impatiently, 15 months until the State Commission on Judicial Conduct finally charged Keller with misconduct last week. Now, I believe Keller [...]
Weed out the drug war
First published by The Daily Texan on Monday, February 9, 2009 Last week, the tabloid News of the World published a picture of swimmer Michael Phelps using a bong to smoke marijuana at a University of South Carolina party. By smoking pot, Phelps set a wrong example for his younger fans. He should have known [...]
National neglect and our death penalty struggle
The Daily Texan by Hooman Hedayati 10/09/2008 In August the nation saw the result of months of the Texas anti-death penalty movement’s tireless work: the commutation of Kenneth Foster’s death sentence, mere hours before his scheduled execution. In September the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would take a Kentucky case to decide if the [...]
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