Category: Opinions

Around midnight on Tuesday, water gushed out of the ceiling of the Grewcock Student Union and posts flooded social media. Reactions ranged from amusement to outrage, and many students Wednesday declared it a royal inconvenience to be fed at Curtiss Memorial Dining Hall for a few days while the college sorts out what’s happening. We...

The war against guns is back. Predictably, gun control advocates are channeling the anger and frustration of Americans into an opportunity to promote their underlying agenda – get rid of all guns. Instead of focusing on the inadequate mental health laws that allow psychopaths like the perpetrator of the Newtown massacre to roam our streets...

By now you’ve heard that Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o has a fake dead girlfriend. Did he perpetrate a hoax or fall victim to one? Did the media fail to do its job? These are interesting and important questions, but the most troubling revelation may be what the story reveals about ourselves. The online...

It started well. Incredibly well. A senator from Utah mentioned to me afterward that the President’s introductory paragraph “could have been written by good ‘ole Dr. Arnn.” However, just like the weather, it all went downhill from there. The remainder of the speech could be compared to an ugly casserole, full of watered-down Dewey, Croly,...

The inauguration was not Obama’s party. I didn’t go to celebrate his policies of change and I didn’t go to affirm his “visions of hope.” I went because it was only the 57th time in world history that power of such magnitude was transferred or reaffirmed peaceably between opposing parties. Men and women who clash...