The disease of socialism
By Allan Cruickshanks | January 24, 2007FOREIGN policy discussions over the past couple years have unfortunately focused more than anything on a single issue: Iraq.
FOREIGN policy discussions over the past couple years have unfortunately focused more than anything on a single issue: Iraq.
IN PHYSICS, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that merely by observing a particle, one changes its position.
With all the powerful thinkers and theorists that Josh Levy cited ("In defense of partisanship," Jan.
THE PRESIDENTIAL election and the tumult surrounding it has become just about the easiest thing in the world to complain about, to point out flaws and gripe about the candidates and their relative stances on the whole gamut of issues.
Last week Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., celebrated its hundredth year as a sorority. They decided to commemorate the event by painting Beta Bridge, but unfortunately, the bridge and the anniversary message was defaced.
I HAVE asked myself many times in the past two weeks whether the politics of this country will be tolerable for the next ten months if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination.
THE DEMOCRATS' "100-hour" legislative agenda and the Bush administration's "New Way Forward" plan sadly ignore what should be a major component of American foreign policy: global poverty reduction.
NEWSPAPER columnists in Virginia could make quite a decent living by only writing columns exposing the latent racism and blatant ignorance of local politicians.
Though I do not want to live in the past, I am holding on to a grudge from 2006 which I must revisit.
AS I prepared myself to write on strides the University has made in race relations, I opened The Cavalier Daily and read about a fresh incident of racial harassment.
LAST YEAR'S holiday season generated a staggering $21 billion in revenues, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
THOSE who follow local politics here in Charlottesville are used to seeing the local congressman, Republican Rep.
TWO WARS and six years later it was clear that something was fundamentally lacking in U.S.counterterrorism strategies in the war on terror.
SORRY, AL Gore: We aren't causing global warming. A change in the earth's temperature does not mean that humans are responsible just like a shrunken, blood covered leather glove doesn't mean that O.J.
AMERICAN efforts against terrorism since 9/11 have witnessed an uncomfortable mix of inadvertent blunders and misguided strategic priorities.
HE WEARS gold Rolexes and diamond-studded rings. He owns mansions, luxurious cars and, according to his daughter/accountant, received a salary (not counting gifts) of $136,000 in 2005.
LISTENING to the radio on my way to Charlottesville Monday, I heard a roundtable panel on C-SPAN discussing the Republican candidates and their prospects for winning the race.
FOLLOWING last week's announcement by President Bush of a temporary troop surge to pacify Baghdad, it seemed like every pundit in America chimed in with a confident pronouncement of the proper course for Iraq.I am not going make another attempt to lay out a detailed, foolproof strategy for winning in Iraq because, frankly, I do not know one.
IT SEEMS this country has yet to have a truly intelligent, high-minded debate on the merits of religious education in public school classrooms. There are two camps.
LISTENING to the radio on my way to Charlottesville Monday, I heard a roundtable panel on C-SPAN discussing the Republican candidates and their prospects for winning the race.