By Sean Quigley on May 1, 2007
Upon first deciding to pen a piece on Brown’s anti-war group, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), I really did not know what to expect from my fieldwork. I had met some of its members in other contexts before – in some cases, even before I knew that these people were left-leaning – and so I assumed, [...]
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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 [...]
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By Boris Ryvkin on May 1, 2007
For all of the idealism and movements toward integration that have been guiding modern states, national interest must remain preeminent. Unless states can attain their strategic objectives, both economic and military, in the world’s most geopolitically relevant regions, the rhetoric of idealism will remain meaningless. The end of the Cold War presented the United States [...]
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By Anish Mitra on May 1, 2007
It seems like Election Day is right around the corner. And even though it is almost one and a half years from now, potential presidential candidates – both Republican and Democratic – have already entered the race. As candidates raise millions of dollars, make noticeable public appearances, and publish platforms, citizens from Sacramento to Albany [...]
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By Caleb Karpay on May 1, 2007
This has not been a good year for conservative provocateurs.? First there was Ann Coulter’s conjecture on John Edwards’ sexuality.? Just as that settled itself, Don Imus, the libertarian, PC-eschewing, compound-living talk show host has found himself the target of the easily-outraged, making clear again the repressive temperament of some Americans.? It also revealed the [...]
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By Pratik Chougule on May 1, 2007
In a sense, democracy and the military are inherently at odds. The shouting commands of a drill sergeant to an obedient line of unified, clean-shaven soldiers hardly strike of a democratic exchange of ideas. Secrecy and strategic stealth, hallmarks of military success, stand in marked contrast to the healthy preconditions of open government and freedom [...]
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By Gregory Halenda on May 1, 2007
Several years ago, a California inmate convicted of armed robbery was dying. A viral infection damaged his heart—he desperately needed a transplant. The inmate, whose name was not released due to medical confidentiality, was placed on the organ donation waiting list, and eventually a match was found. The state of California paid somewhere in the [...]
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By Peter Catsimpiris on May 1, 2007
To the general public, conservatives and libertarians are bound to seem bedfellows – both groups adamantly support smaller government, decentralization of federal power, and lower and fewer taxes, to name just a few subjects. And as apparent allies with conservatives on countless national issues, compounded by the trifling number of Americans self-identifying as libertarians, we [...]
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By Drew Edwards on May 1, 2007
Earth Day at Brown University has, in years past, been a fairly reasonable, if perhaps one-sided, celebration of environmentalism. The College Republicans have always been invited, and have accepted this invitation as an opportunity to set up an “Industrial Revolution” table as a modest counterpoint. This has always been conducted in a respectful manner.
This year, [...]
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By Jason Carr on May 1, 2007
The term “organic” brings to mind two attributes: unwashed and primitively natural. Take these two descriptors, add tie-dye shirts, a suspicious odor, and a complete lack of concern for one’s future income, and you have the group membership of the Sustainable Food Initiative or SuFI. These kindly hippies, fresh off their last hit of marijuana, [...]
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