MY PARENTS, my siblings and I were all born and raised below the Mason-Dixie. We have a tendency to say "y'all," never celebrate a holiday without fried chicken and according to my California roommate, cannot pronounce "nuclear." Obviously, we are a southern family.
IN ONE year the American people will be voting for the 44th president of the United States. For many voters who remember the chaos that was the 2000 election, and the highly disputed decision which placed the current president, George W.
They meet behind closed, locked, soundproof and if you believed the movie "The Sum of All Fears," doors that fog up when the room is in use.
SOMEONE needs to tell me what in the world is happening to students at our university. In 2003, the University has witnessed too many malicious acts involving students.
THINK back to when you were in high school. Imagine wandering the halls between classes one day when all of a sudden, fourteen police officers burst through the doors with guns drawn, screaming at you to get on the floor with your hands behind your head.
HIP-HOP music and federal immigration policy don't often appear in the same sentence or even on the same page of many newspapers.
An integral part of writing for a newspaper is knowing how and when to ask more questions, to dig deeper.
WHILE I have repeatedly asked the editors to remove my photo from next to my editorial column, the fact is it's here to stay.
THERE CAN scarcely be said to have been a time when ideology did not play a major role in the workings of the U.S.
Given Jesus Christ's radically inclusive nature, his followers sure do have trouble getting the whole tolerance thing down. Recently, Indiana University professor, Yale graduate and devout Christian Eric B.
What is the best reason to not vote Republican?Republicans favor the private interest over the public good.An example?The Bush Administration's attempts to undermine the federal direct loan program to benefit special interest tells a story of who is running the government. Within this story lies disturbing venality, campaign contributions influencing legislation, and a scam to enrich corporations at the expense of taxpayers. What Republicans are striving to kill is the federal government direct-loan program from the Clinton era that loans students money for college.
With the recent forest fires that have blazed through California and destroyed 740,000 acres and 3,600 houses and killed 22 people, an issue that had been put on the back-burner (no pun intended) has now resurfaced: the practice of forest thinning.
THOUGH generally frowned upon in journalism, this column begins with a personal anecdote. This past Tuesday was election day in Virginia.
WHILE our generation is often said to be apathetic and oblivious to the fine points of grand political theory, the recent pot bust at the University rekindled a healthy skepticism of government paternalism over self-respecting behavior.
THE GRAVEYARD for the victims of the monster known as political correctness is filled with corpses.
SIXTEEN American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday when the Chinook helicopter they were traveling in was downed just outside of Baghdad.
MAINTAINING the status quo is in the best interest of the Republican Party in our fine Commonwealth, and that is just what happened last night.
LAST WEEK, University of Maryland President C.D. Mote, Jr. caused quite a stir down in these parts by describing the University's number one public university ranking as "ridiculous." Specifically, what's ridiculous, according to Mote, is our tie for the coveted spot with the University of California-Berkeley, apparently a far better school and Mote's own alma mater. Well, I've decided I agree with you, Mr. Mote.
THE ONLY thing quieter than downtown Richmond last night was Virginia's Democratic Party headquarters.
AN ACT of intolerable cruelty is about to take place. In two weeks, CBS is set to air a shameful, slanderous, smear job of a miniseries that inaccurately portrays one of America's greatest presidents.
