After Governor Sarah Palin said that her executive experience as a mayor and a governor had prepared her to serve as Vice-President, the Obama campaign responded by claiming that he had equal or greater experience as an executive — due to his leadership of a presidential campaign, which has more employees and a much larger [...]

If media reports are to be believed, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the most knowledgable constitutional scholars since James Madison. In a September article for The New Republic, Jeffery Rosen wrote, “The Obama-Biden slate is historic in many ways, but for law professors it has a special cachet: It’s the first time that [...]

Dear Mr. Radford:
While I appreciate your kind words on our mission, I must take issue with a number of you characterizations and criticisms of my article.First,I believe that you will be sadly mistaken about “the inevitable verdict of history”of the Bush foreign policy. Certainly future generations of Iraqi and Afghan women will enjoy lives of [...]

In 1840, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story dedicated his A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States to the “ingenious youth” of Massachusetts as a man who “gratefully acknowledges, that her territory is the land of his birth and the home of his choice.”Unfortunately,in recent times Massachusetts has found judges of Justice Story’s [...]

While the smallest state in the nation may be geographically far away from the border, it has not managed to avoid the problem of illegal immigrants who, along with their supporters, think they are above the law. Luckily, on March 27, 2008, Governor Donald L. Carcieri signed an Executive Order aimed at bringing them back [...]

Since America’s “unilateral” invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, it has been fashionable among the liberal and novice foreign policy critics alike to castigate the Bush foreign policy as “Cowboy Diplomacy.” This view of Bush as the Lone Ranger on a quixotic quest, tilting at the windmills of democracy in the Middle East, has [...]

The Vast-Right Wing Conspiracy and Republican Attack Machine may have thought that they “beat the bitch,” but it appears likely that their sights were pointed in the wrong direction. While Hillary Rodham Clinton has endured the bulk of criticisms from stalwarts of the Right from Pat Buchanan to Robert Bork for nearly two decades, it [...]

This article was originally going to be written about how Barack Obama had successfully managed to thread the needle of racial politics by avoiding the issues of race that dogged the candidacies of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Carol Mosley Braun. However, a funny thing happened on the road to the primaries: due to forces [...]

What did the Virginia Tech, Columbine, Beach, Jonesboro, Paducah, Connetquot High, Killeen, Orange Park, SuccessTech, and West Nickel Mines school shootings all have in common? They all occurred in gun-free zones. Think about it. If you were a psychopathic killer bent on mass murder, would there a better place than an area in which you [...]

This Parents Weekend, the Brown University Student Labor Alliance unveiled its petition to Brown University parents, asking them to support a Designated Suppliers Program (DSP) that would discriminate against any clothing manufacturer that does not meet the wage and working condition expectations of the DSP. If adopted on a wider scale, this plan will simply [...]