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An Answer to The Democratic Dilemma
The primary season for the Democratic Party has turned out to be the most interesting and unpredictable series of events since at least 1980, the year President Jimmy Carter was challenged by Massachusetts Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy. Kennedy took ten primaries from Carter and cast some doubt on the nomination of the sitting President, […]
The Success of the Minority
The past year marked a massive change for the Republican party. For the first year in over a decade, the GOP found itself the minority party in both houses of Congress. Since the midterm elections of 1994, the Republican Party retained constant control of the legislative branch. Coupled with the two elections of President […]
The Wrong Agenda
The race for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination has heated up between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Much of their time has been spent bantering back and forth about each other’s experience on dealing with various issues, chiefly foreign policy. Recently, however, things have gotten slightly messier. Once again, the Democratic Party has proven […]
A Need For Understanding
The past week played host to two major news events. The first was the visit to Columbia University by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The second was the increasingly visible struggle in Myanmar for political and social liberty and the institution of democracy. Both topics received considerable attention and brought out many different views and commentaries, […]
The Democratic Folly
The senate recently put its official stamp of condemnation on moveon.org, the leftist political website that punishes any liberal who is not a radical socialist and attempts to call distinguished military officials liars. The vote was essentially an overwhelming affirmation of disapproval. Many democrats joined Republicans in a 72-25 vote. Moveon.org’s favorite radical liberals, Hilary […]
A Plan Of Efficiency
We have recently been faced with one of the most horrifying domestic tragedies a nation can witness. A heavily-traveled artery, which provided the backbone of a major city’s transportation needs, mysteriously descended into a pile of rubble feet below in the Mississippi River. There is no doubt that the tragedy in Minnesota is a terrific […]
Can The Questions Be Answered?
Recently, two top-tear democratic candidates have released agendas on an important issue. Both John Edwards and Barack Obama have declared their ideas on poverty. Edwards has made direct reference to Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against poverty, obviously hoping to imply comparisons from old RFK supporters and draw a crowd of younger American’s who have grown […]
What is a Retro Republican?
(noun) Those who want to turn back the clock of the Republican Party to its pre-1980 libertarian roots of self-defense, constitutionalism, and shrunken government
This is the sad story of a cruel saga…
To understand where I am coming from, you need to be acquainted with the roots of conservatism. American conservatism did not evolve to conserve […]
Political Correctness and the War on Terror
In English last week, we were discussing rhetoric, namely, how rhetoric can influence people through definitions. When it came to the subject of texts and how they can pose as sites of struggle (i.e. different groups fighting for their own definitions of a term), our professor brought up the term ‘Islamofascism’ and how President Bush […]
More Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan is at it again in her latest column about her protest and fast at The White House: