ALTHOUGH hybrid-driving environmentalists have long warned of the dangers of our dependence on fossil fuels for the planet, recent events should make even the staunchest pick-up driving conservative reconsider the significance of the threat foreign oil dependence poses to our economic sovereignty and national security.
"ALL OUR social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." The speaker of this quotation taken from an article appearing in the Times of London is not a white supremacist or neo-Nazi, but a once-brilliant scientist James Watson -- co-discoverer of DNA's double helix -- whose recent bigoted and unsubstantiated claim created a firestorm of controversy.
AMERICA is bored with the culture wars. After years of heated division over high-minded issues such as the placement of 10 Commandments statues and the preservation of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, it appears as though the politics of division no longer arouse Americans' political passions.
IF THE University administration wants to find the best way to initiate its plans for a slew of new structures across Central Grounds, they can take a cue from Stonewall Jackson. The larger-than-life statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson occupies a prominent position next to the historic Albemarle County Courthouse in downtown Charlottesville.
STUDENT activism sometimes confirms the worst stereotypes of college naivete. Most University students can remember quixotic activists that falsely believed that a reproachful demonstration by a few dozen students could affect the actions of a distant head of state or a jet-setting CEO.
AS NEWS of bloodshed and conflict turns Americans' attention to the Middle East, an under-reported energy crisis unfolding in the region threatens the foundations of the international economic order. Recently respected media outlets have begun to turn their attention to reports coming out of the Arabian Desert that petroleum production in Saudi oil fields may be peaking and could fall into decline in the near future.
IN THE aftermath of the controversyin Jena, Louisiana, civil rights advocates such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been quick to argue that the demonstrations are the start of a new civil rights movement.
AS the flashing red and blue lights behind me indicated I was being pulled over for speeding, I felt fortunate not to be a Virginian.
THE START of a new school year brings with it another round of complaints over the inordinate cost of school books.
A GROUP of conservative activists in California are working hard to rig the 2008 presidential election.
