By Kristina Kelleher on March 21, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in National | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
By Kristina Kelleher on February 20, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Kristina Kelleher on December 6, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in National | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Kristina Kelleher on December 6, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Kristina Kelleher on October 26, 2007
In order to appear as a world leader on environmental issues, Beijing has come up with the slogan, the “green” Olympics for the 2008 games. In order for the slogan to have any weight, Beijing must improve its environmental protection, since the area currently has one of the worst records of pollution in the world. [...]
Posted in International | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on October 26, 2007
The crowds, literally and figuratively, are the same. Struggling mothers are concerned about health care, Vietnam veterans are concerned for soldiers returning from Iraq, and small business owners are worried about taxes, the minimum wage, and competing with big business. Hardened by decades of primaries, these New Hampshire citizens are as hard to move [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on September 9, 2007
The 2008 Beijing Olympics means a lot more to China than the Salt Lake City Olympics meant to the United States, no matter how much Mitt Romney tries to play up one-half of his political experience. China, not just Beijing or a presidential candidate, has something to prove to the world next summer. Success in [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Kristina Kelleher on September 9, 2007
Trying to solidify himself as the protector of free-markets against the advance of the socialist leviathan promised by Democratic front-runners Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney criticized John Edwards plan to almost double the capital-gains tax from 15 to 28% in exchange for $250 in tax-free gains. While speaking [...]
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By Kristina Kelleher on May 1, 2007
“The long-range solution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” – Milton Friedman
Who are minimum wage [...]
Posted in National | Tagged May 2007, Volume V Number VII
By Kristina Kelleher on February 1, 2007
Mary Beth Reynolds, Catholic campus Minister at Brown since 1999, left October 29 to accept a position as spiritual care coordinator for Home and Hospice Center of Rhode Island. In a Brown-RISD Catholic community wide e-mail on October 13, she wrote in part:
After more than seven years of Sunday bagels and class suppers, weekly Cenacles, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
