AS ANYONE who knows George Allen's mishaps can tell you, Virginia does not have a reputation for tolerance, or legislative prowess for that matter.
BEYOND the races for United States Senate and House of Representatives, one issue looms larger than any other in this year's campaign season: the Marshall-Newman amendment, which seeks to prevent same-sex marriages and anything "approximating" that status.
WATCHING the hordes of ridiculously dressed partiers wandering down my street this weekend, I couldn't help but wonder why Halloween is undoubtedly the biggest holiday at the University.
HILLARY Clinton is not the answer. This is what I say to anyone who believes Clinton's victory in the 2008 Democratic primary is all but a given.
WITH THIS year's election just around the corner, Democratic leaders are already claiming a victory and, according to Fox News, are supposedly choosing which offices to occupy in the Capitol building.
MY REGULAR readers might be surprised to learn that my fellow Opinion columnist Christa Byker and I attended the same political conference last weekend in Cambridge.
THERE ARE two types of buzzwords in today's policy debates: political and substantive. A buzzword can best be defined as a word used repeatedly to make a point.
SEXUAL assault has been a source of heated debate and grave concern within the University. However, one twisted form of this phenomenon has been so institutionalized that it has gone largely unnoticed despite its obvious assault on the very foundations of morality.
I AM a conservative. Many people believe this means I should be ready and able to defend the Republican Party at every point.
BEWARE OF writers who try to resolve an issue like same-sex marriage in 800 words. I won't try to do it, nor should anyone else be so foolish.
The "living wage" debate has been discussed at length on Grounds and beyond over the past few years, and has often proven to be a polarizing issue. As this topic is argued, the federal minimum wage has remained unchanged for 10 years.
IT'S GOING to sweep the nation. Or at least that's what you'd think about progressivism if you visited the University for a day.
THIS PAST weekend witnessed the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown, in which a combined Franco-American army and a French fleet in the Chesapeake Bay forced the surrender of 7,000 British troops at Yorktown and effectively ended the American Revolution.
FOR A party whose President has said he is "not concerned" about Osama bin Laden, the Republicans certainly want to remind voters that they should be.
ALTHOUGH it's understandable that there were longstanding repercussions from the destruction of the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings, it has been far too long since any visible progress has been made. When we look back at the attacks on Pearl Harbor before the United States entered the Second World War, we see that the Japanese crippled the U.S.
AS OCTOBER gives way to November, those with political acumen anxiously await the onset of election season.
LAST YEAR, every time I crossed the street from Jefferson Park Ave. towards Old Cabell Hall, I felt I was engaging in a dangerous gamble.
HANGING on for dear life, aperson clutches a lone branch on the side of an enormous cliff, struggling to hold on.
THE VIRTUE of honor is fundamental to the University as a Southern institution and to the character of the University student body.
A GENUINE open debate on sexual assault is a rare occurrence. After all, no one wants to appear apathetic about the crime or unsympathetic towards the victim.
