WASHINGTON, D.C. -- HOPE: That's what Republicans across Washington, D.C., were feeling as they sweated in the hot sun, passing out pamphlets until the very last hour at the polling sites.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Washington, D.C. should be home turf for the GOP. From our view of the Washington Monument, we control both the House and Senate as well as the most powerful position, arguably, in the world -- the presidency of the United States.
BOSTON -- SPORTING two world championship teams, Bostonians are walking around with a bit of a swagger in their step these days.
IT SOMETIMES feels like this campaign has gone on for hundreds of years. Granted, this campaign has gone on for years, so this feeling is not entirely without just cause.
TOMORROW, our great nation will choose as its president one of two politicians who are remarkable only for the uninspiring pallor of sub-mediocrity that both of them exude.
FOR THOSE who haven't heard, the 2004 election takes place tomorrow. The campaigns, especially the presidential campaigns, have received scant attention from the media and have been conducted in a civilized way that has raised the level of political discourse in the country.
THIS ELECTORAL cycle has brought the issue of values to the forefront of the American political consciousness. Although the nation's focus on values has become an useful tool for political operatives on both the left and the right, it is hurting the American people.
THE ONLY alternative to majoritarian democracy, it is sometimes forgotten, is some form of rule by a minority.
ON TUESDAY, Critical Mass screened "Hijacking Catastrophe," a new documentary narrated by University professor and NAACP Chair Julian Bond, which explores the Bush administration's imperial ambitions in Iraq dating back to the year 2000.
ENVIRONMENTAL demonstrators have only gotten nuttier over the last several years; thus, I approach with a healthy dose of skepticism any group of protesters pedaling around in powdered wigs.
WIDESPREAD fraud, manipulation, perjury, obstruction, confusion, intimidation, chaos and even violence.Afghanistan?
RECENT events at the University have me very afraid. There are those that say that I am an example of a systemic problem: a person whose politics and philosophy prevent social advancement in ignorant defiance of justice and fairness.
THE PUBLIC mission of the University is its most important guiding principle, and today it faces danger.
IN THINKING of tolerance and ignorance, I realized that I can fully imagine what it is like to be a white student attending U.Va.
LAST FRIDAY, Ohio Republicans attempted to crack down on voter registration errors by purging voter rolls of names and addresses that did not match GOP rosters.
PROFESSORS, familiar teaching assistants, graduate students and some academic townies compose the typical intellectual grouping at a speaker's lecture.
VOTE FOR George W. Bush. Why, you ask? I think the reasons might take up the entire Opinion page, but alas, I am only allowed 700 words with which to spread my conservative propaganda. John Kerry, along with the many rampant Bush-haters out there, talks a lot about what Bush should have done during the past four years.
OVER THE past few weeks, we've seen the evolution of Kerry progress to yet another human life form: a conservative.
THIS WEEK, the fall elections ballot includes a cleanenergy referendum. Despite last week's confusing and partisan rally for the initiative, this measure deserves our support.
