By Kristina Kelleher on August 1, 2009
President Barack Obama has said that he wants to be a transformational leader. During the primary, Obama said that he wanted to be more like President Reagan than President Clinton because Reagan fundamentally changed government and left an impact on the world. Considering the momentous change that Obama has promised, it is ironic that he [...]
Posted in National | Tagged barack obama, barack obama foreign policy, May 2009, obama foreign policy, Volume VII Number IV
By Kristina Kelleher on July 7, 2009
Imagine having your address made public on the Internet. Imagine your employer receiving threatening phone calls for not firing you. Imagine your business being boycotted and picketed until you resigned. Imagine patients leaving your practice that you have built up from the ground. Imagine having to resign from managing a popular restaurant after 26 years [...]
Posted in National | Tagged california, gay marriage, gay marriage legislation, May 2009, prop 8, proposition 8, Volume VII Number IV
By Kristina Kelleher on January 28, 2009
“This New Louisiana will not come easily…but it will come…
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Kristina Kelleher on January 28, 2009
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign was defeated…
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Kristina Kelleher on October 24, 2008
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 budget than [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on October 24, 2008
If media reports are to be believed, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the most knowledgeable 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 [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on September 15, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Kristina Kelleher on September 15, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Kristina Kelleher on May 8, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Kristina Kelleher on April 17, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in International, Lead | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
