Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Kagan: Those who can’t do, teach

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Those that can’t do, teach. Either that, or they become the President or a Supreme Court justice.

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Elena Kagan: Those who can’t do, teach?

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Conservatives are up in arms again over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. We’ve heard accusations leveled at Kagan of radical leftist leanings, a lack of non-academic experience, an anti-military stance, and homosexuality. Fear-based rhetoric such as this is counter-productive for the GOP in two ways. First, it widens the schism between left and right. Second, through the radicalization of Kagan’s image, the GOP might inhibit the nomination of a centrist, pragmatic woman opposed to same-sex marriage.

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Conservative Column

Friday, May 14th, 2010

We constantly hear about how college is supposed to be a trial place for new ideas. New ideas like communism. Our student government’s experiment at Principia College has produced some humorous and rather predictable results.

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Liberal Column

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Behind the gleaming blue and white paint and chromed-out handlebars of the six new campus Go Bikes lurks … the ugly red face of COMMUNISM!

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Britain poised to vote in new PM

Friday, April 30th, 2010

In Britain, the upcoming May 6 election has already brought great attention and excitement to the landscape of British politics. This sort of excitement has not been seen for some time in British politics, as, in the last few decades, the popularity of politics has gone down. Live televised debates have garnered enthusiasm for this year’s election.

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Tea party in the U.S.A

Friday, April 30th, 2010

If you read The New York Times opinion section, you probably believe the Tea Party movement is made up of a bunch of racist old white men. On the contrary, we are a diverse group; people of all walks of life are upset about the path down which Washington is taking us.

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The new conservative party?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

On a cold night in December 1773, colonists in Boston burst into the harbor dressed as Native Americans, boarded British ships, and dumped boxes of tea into the harbor. This reckless act of defiance demonstrated their discontent with Britain’s “tyrannical” policy of taxation without representation. Over two centuries later in response to the 2008 government bailout and 2009 stimulus package, the Tea Party movement has adopted their revolutionary moniker. Does this new party have the political clout to become the new dominant conservative party, or is it simply a group of Republicans repackaging their angst over the 2008 election? The Tea Party movement has straightforward goals: limited government, fiscal responsibility, and a free market. Is this a truly new political movement, or more of the same from the beleaguered political right?

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Obama’s nuclear foreign fallacy

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Everyone used to have good laughs when George W. Bush frequently mispronounced “nuclear” as “nuke-u-lar,” but at least he understood the basic foreign relations concept of deterrence. Barack Obama doesn’t, and it’s not funny.

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Still America, but no longer Amicus

Friday, March 5th, 2010

In the last three issues, we have considered how John Rawls’ veil of ignorance theory and difference doctrine help us consider and create a more fair, moral social contract. This discussion has, I hope, been reasonable, measured, and candid. In this last column, I would like to tell you the story of my experience at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. You may now forget about reasonable and measured. But hey, remember candid.

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Why the youth like Ron Paul

Friday, March 5th, 2010

If Ron Paul’s victory in the CPAC straw poll demonstrates anything, it is that not only the pot-smoking, anti-war hippies support Ron Paul. Hippies have had trouble voting for years because — surprise! — they tend to have a lack of motivation; Paul’s supporters definitely care and know how to organize for their cause.

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