John Murtha has certainly earned his reputation as an impulsive creature who frequently speaks, publicly no less, before he thinks. His many ragings over the conflict in Iraq are just one example. Think back to his rant about John McCain’s appearance on The Daly Show, in which the Senator joked about putting an IED under [...]

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) should perhaps be renamed “The Students for Disturbing Society” after another month of act-before-you-think protests. From disrupting a RIPTA board meeting to the point where police had to be called to making career decisions for Brown students as they entered the career fair, when will it become obvious [...]

Speaker Pelosi and the House Majority Leadership for adjourning before passing an energy bill, turning off the lights and CSPAN cameras in the House Chamber, and leaving the ‘Guerilla Congress’ in control. To make matters worse for the Speaker, her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters, has tanked and should be appearing [...]

The controversy over Yale student Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project, in which she claimed to have artificially inseminated herself, then taken herbal abortifacient drugs to induce what she called “miscarriages,” is justified whether or not she actually performed any of the actions she described. If she truly performed these acts, she should be examined to [...]

Dutch MP Geert Wilders may have hoped that his incendiary documentary Fitna would incite extremists to commit horrible human-rights violations. And it did, though not from the Middle East. Throughout the European Union, fear and political correctness drove politicians and journalists alike to call for the documentary to be censored, and for Wilders to be [...]

As it turns out, the John Carter Brown Library may be in possession of one of the most important relics of early America: a map, dated to 1505 or 1506. What makes this relic special is its use of the word “America” over a mass of land approximating the location of Brazil. This makes the [...]

For a number of years, the Brown College Republicans have respected a tradition of passing down a large GOP flag to each successive CR president. This came to an end recently. One or more thieves stole the flag from CR President Marc Frank’s room in Keeney Quad. Since the robbery, the criminal(s) have left 3 [...]

For undermining the surge and the larger American effort to secure democracy in Iraq. In politicizing the war, the Democratic Congress, alongside a growing number of cowardly Republicans, has sent an unmistakable message of defeatism. As Defense Secretary Gates’s put it, a Congressional resolution against the troop surge simply “emboldens the enemy” and lends credence [...]

For protesting “police brutality,” “racism,” and “sexual harrassment”…again. Do they really believe the BUPD and University Administration are engaged in a conspiracy against minorities and women?

For storming the stage and shouting down Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. So much for free speech. The incident raises the question, is Brown no longer the most liberal Ivy?