By Anish Mitra on May 8, 2008
Madam:
I really do not know where to start. I guess I should begin by saying, kids, never under-estimate the power of propaganda. Effective Venezuelan propaganda is stronger than Colombian cocaine, as we can see from Ms. McFadden’s atrociously mislead opinions.
The first point I would like to address is about Venezuela’s “honest” national elections. While the [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
While campaigning for the votes of Pennsylvanians, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made a rather tasteless comment about the state’s struggling Americans. He said, ” So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them…” Basically, non-Ivy League educated, non-rich, and non-enlightened [...]
Posted in Winner | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
Anyone who knows a group of conservatives and libertarians will affirm that we often do not agree on much. But one thing on which there is widespread agreement at the Spectator is that the departing seniors of our journal of opinion have made many important contributions.
Ms. Roxanne Palmer
Perhaps the greatest contribution of all came from [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
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
By Sean Quigley on May 8, 2008
In the two years that I have been attending Brown, one aspect of the school’s environment has been particularly annoying, and even infuriating at times. And while I am tempted to write that the statist impulses and cries of many fellow students are the cause of this deep-felt annoyance, such is actually not the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Susannah Kroeber on May 8, 2008
Boycotting threats by Olympic athletes represent the most heinous realization of growing international anti-Chinese sentiment, beyond the refusal of politicians to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The boycotts will inevitably be ineffective at realizing their aims because the aims are elusive to everyone involved. The hysteria caused partially by [...]
Posted in International | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Bonnie McFadden on May 8, 2008
Sir:
For a Spectator writer who claims to be an official in Brown’s “Model UN”, the intellectual arrogance coupled with utter ignorance about the subject under discussion astonishing. I am a highly educated American living and teaching in Venezuela. I see the operations of the Chavez government on a daily basis and it should serve as [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Brian Bishop on May 8, 2008
The Janus Lecture Series at Brown concluded with an Earth Day theme presenting an unlikely triumvirate of socio-economic thinkers discussing climate change. Global Warming wreaked havoc upon the presentation with glorious spring weather filling the Pembroke Green rather than the lecture at Alumnae Hall (although weather-norming could only report that the event was quite well [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Kristina Kelleher on May 8, 2008
While the smallest state in the nation may be geographically far away from the border, it has not managed to avoid the problem of illegal immigrants who, along with their supporters, think they are above the law. Luckily, on March 27, 2008, Governor Donald L. Carcieri signed an Executive Order aimed at bringing them back [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
