By Poppy Addison on May 6, 2010
Sarah Palin may appear an earthy cookie-baker, but the cutesy provincialism neither advances nor represents conservatism. Rather than garnering public trust, the hockey mom routine has made her primetime laughingstock.
The winks, insipid buzzphrases (“You betcha!”), and muddled policy perscriptions show Palin to be fatally flawed and not of, for, or by the real right.
Cursory [...]
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By Ivayla Ivanova on May 6, 2010
Pro:
Not long ago, I was at a dinner with a couple; a professor and his wife. When they discovered that I was a conservative, and that on top of that I like Sarah Palin, the wife exclaimed: “Sarah Palin is a bitch! And I never, ever use that word.” This from a woman [...]
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By Hari Tyagi on May 6, 2010
Greedy, money-grubbing, arrogant. These are a few of the many insults bandied about by President Obama and his media allies to describe the scapegoat du jour: Wall Street bankers.
Similar epithets can be heard all over this campus, spat by aggrieved students and professors, their faces flushed with the venom of self-righteousness. These loudmouths [...]
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By Lily Tran on May 6, 2010
An acquaintance once said, “The more money I make, the less I care about people.” This ‘insight,’ he explained, informs his conservatism.
It was to me totally insensible. Conservatives do not not care about people. Opposition to welfarism and to the high taxes that end up funding dole programs do not signal a [...]
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By Frank Rinaldi on August 6, 2009
In the month of September, the federal government passed a bill that called for spending over $700 billion of public money in order to take over failed assets from Wall Street firms. This plan was supposed stop the bleeding and enable the financial markets to start their path to recovery. It is important to note [...]
Posted in National | Tagged economic collapse, economic distress, May 2009, obama, Volume VII Number IV
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 Travis Rowley on July 9, 2009
The Coen Brothers’ 2007 film No Country For Old Men revolves around the tale of several young men engaged in a violent race for a satchel of cash. Tommy Lee Jones plays an aging sheriff investigating the depressing trail of bloodshed, markings that inform the old man that the customs and morals that guided his [...]
Posted in National | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Jason Carr on July 7, 2009
While Asian-Americans continually achieve America’s top test scores, University’s affirmative action policies put them at a disadvantage.
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
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 Lily Tran on May 4, 2009
Morse vs. Frederick, better known by its nickname, Bong Hits for Jesus, is a landmark free speech case. The Supreme Court ruled that schools can restrict speech when it promotes illegal drug use. Morse vs. Frederick has implications for students’ speech on both high school and college campuses.
Imagine a world of thought police and speech [...]
Posted in National | Tagged bong hits 4 jesus, morse v frederick, morse vs. frederick, September 2007, Volume VI Number I
