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 Anish Mitra on October 24, 2008
Honestly, when I heard a few weeks ago that our beloved Congress was planning on issuing $700 billion to relieve our financial woes, I was really stoked. I figured if even one percent of that package was allocated towards my interests (Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer have represented them flawlessly), I could coast through [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Anish Mitra on September 15, 2008
Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) superstar popularity has certainly been no surprise. Virtually all media outlets act as if he is the center of the universe,and record his every move,no matter how insignificant or irrelevant. Courtesy of CNN news, I’ve learned more about his affinity for basketball, his quasi-addiction to cigarettes, and his exorbitant gym hours [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Keith Dellagrotta on September 15, 2008
Whether you like the man or not, President George W. Bush was liked by enough Americans to get elected in 2000 and then re-elected in 2004. A major reason: his outspoken faith in God. Today, with around three quarters of Americans identifying as Christians, it is no wonder that a man who openly professes his [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Anthony Badami on September 15, 2008
My fellow Americans, I beseech you, discontinue this asinine discussion. Iraq never was nor will it ever be Vietnam. Nor is Iraq a “war of choice.” To say so displays a profound lack of recollection. How quickly the most astute of us is struck with historical amnesia. And even more quickly that collective stupor has [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Christina Cozzetto on September 15, 2008
The cover of the July 21st, 2008, edition of The New Yorker was the source of some controversy. Illustrator Barry Blitt drew a picture of Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his wife Michelle in the Oval Office that collected many stereotypes about the Democratic presidential hopeful: dressed in Muslim attire,Obama fist-bumps his wife, dressed as a [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Andrew Migneault on September 15, 2008
Big brother is shopping with you. Last weekend, I went into the Walgreens convenience store in my town to develop a roll of film that I had exposed during my vacation on Cape Cod. I filled out the form, got out my money, and waited to hand a coupon to the sales clerk when she [...]
Posted in National | 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 Peter Catsimpiris on May 8, 2008
The outlook of the 2008 presidential race is hardly a dream come true for libertarians. Then again, we haven’t really had a viable candidate (other than maybe Reagan and Goldwater) in post-FDR Amerika. While the prospect of one of three great luminaries who’ve made their names and fortunes squabbling over how worst to spend your [...]
Posted in National | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
