THE VERY core of the government of the United States of America is under attack. These attacks are not coming from disgruntled citizens or terrorists from another country, but from the nine judge council that sits at the head of the judicial branch of our government.
GOOD NEWS, everyone. The Supreme Court has upheldthe use of race in college admissions. Whew, for a minute there I thought I'd come back to school in the fall, and everyone would be white. Because that's what would happen, right?
DURING April of last semester, the James Madison University Board of Visitors voted 7-6 in favor of a controversial motion that banned the distribution of the "morning after" contraceptive pill in JMU-affiliated health centers.
THIS PAST week, headlines abounded on our nation's newspapers recording the historic decision of the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in higher education admissions policies.
DON'T CALL me. Ever. Maybe you are just tired of picking up the phone to hear a computer clicking on the other end.
QUICK, who are the nine front-runners for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination? Stuck on Joe Lieberman and John Kerry?
THERE aren't many imaginable issues that have the power to unite steadfast conservative Republicans like Dick Armey and Bob Barr under the same banner as both Al Sharpton and John Kerry.
LAST WEEK, the Middle East peace process began anew, absent the familiar face of Yasser Arafat. The longtime Palestinian leader was recently sidelined in favor of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, a new leader uncompromised by terrorist associations.
SOME OF the best scenery in the world is being destroyed bit by bit. Early this month, the government of mainland China closed the floodgates on the Three Gorges Dam.
IT HAS been a while since my last column, which was written just before the incident involving the alleged assault on Daisy Lundy.
IF I READ any more excerpts from Hillary Clinton's new book or see any more of her interviews, I am going to throw up. Yes, that's right, I will physically be sick.
LET'S just get one thing straight: I am not fighting for the East Coast, I am not anti-West Coast.
IT SEEMS people once believed that drunk girls in thong bikinis woulddraw tourists to beaches, but these days beach regulators are finding the opposite to be true.
WHAT'S a president to do when the economy is stuck in a rut and an election year is coming up? Cut taxes!
LAST WEEK, President Bush plunged headfirst into the Middle East peace process, meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss a new plan for their reconciliation.
I STILL remember the first day I worked at The Cavalier Daily. I even still remember the title of my first article: "Faculty work for Judaic major." When I entered the University, the Jewish Studies major still was in the planning stages.
THE FALL semester started out with the first anniversary of Sept. 11, accompanied by frighteningly low water reservoir levels.
THE STORIES in this newspaper impact our lives in profound ways. One changed mine forever. I was excited yet paralyzed with fear.
