I grew up in the '90s, so I chuckled at the irony of hearing a Democratic perorate on the importance of fiscal responsibility during the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates.
George W. Bush is, indisputably, the best president in the history of the United States. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that he's the best leader EVER, trumping everyone from Winston Churchill (a drunk) to King David (a pretty-boy shepherd according to the prophet Samuel and a girlie man according to Gov.
I am a longterm resident of Princeton Borough and ran as the independent candidate for Princeton Borough Council four years ago.
Tuesday, Borough residents will decide the occupants of two of the six seats on the Borough Council ? the body that can directly affect where we shop, where we park and what we do in eating clubs.Democratic Councilmen Andrew Koontz and Roger Martindell are running again.
I had made an interior vow to write nothing further about the presidential campaign. In my view it has been conducted by both major parties in a manner that emphasizes the trivialities and debilities of American democracy at the expense of demonstrating its strengths.
October 20, 2004: A day that will live in infamy. And all the more so as barely a weekend earlier my father and I had cackled over the Boston Globe's delightful description of Yankee-struck baseballs flying "hither and yon," of the "brontosaurus egg" that was the 0-3 deficit, and yes, of the "C-word." No doubt about it: The Curse was alive and well.Such it was that four days before the end of the American League Championship Series, I was at the height of my glory, reveling in the mystical Yankee-centric vision of the sports cosmos that had first drawn me into baseball fanaticism.For the uninitiated, Yankee theology explains why, despite their occasional slides into utter incompetence, the Yankees are the cicadas of the playoffs.
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While reading Aileen Nielsen's heartfelt piece 'Even if Kerry wins, he's a loser,' (Oct. 20) I was struck that she feels like her choices, as a third-party supporter, are so limited.
There was a time when President Bush could be forgiven. On the face of things, he wanted to do something good for this country, preaching in the 2000 campaign the virtues of modesty in world affairs and compassionate conservatism at home.
For the sake of formality, let's review some facts. Across the world, thousands of children die daily from hunger and preventable diseases.
In the best of all possible worlds, colleges and universities would give students a break in the middle of the fall semester so that students could have the option of voting at home.We can easily imagine the benefits of such an "election break." First, students would not be compelled to choose between voting by absentee ballot and registering outside their home state.
Transport yourself, if you will, back to a time when hippies roamed the earth, Richard Nixon occupied the Oval Office, and perhaps most impossibly, our parents were our age.
The history of the American national security establishment is marked by a procession of changing paradigms.
For the past couple of months in lectures, professors have been slyly dropping hints about their views on the presidential candidates and the electoral process.
The email came in from an aghast libertarian. "Hath hell frozen over" she inquired? After all, it seemed that Professor Robert "Robbie" George, part-hero, part-idol and assuredly the source of much of the conservative momentum here on campus, had declared his support for Senator Kerry in the race for the presidency.
The difference between the two candidates' plans to win the war on terrorism in this election is simple: Kerry's plan makes sense, and Bush's doesn't.The first part of Bush's strategy seems to be getting in the way of reform.
I'm voting for Ralph Nader in a swing state come November, and it has nothing to do with disliking the two-party (a.k.a.
