Opinion

I’m pretty sure Giuliani has already drafted himself.
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There seems to be another battle going on on Capitol Hill - It makes me think of the constant debate that goes on around campus regarding smoking. I remember the uproar caused by freshmen smokers (of which there are a ton) at Thurston when they removed the over-hang in the front of Thurston that...
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Why I’m rooting for Rudy Before explaining why I hope former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will decide to enter the 2008 presidential election, I must first describe why I am a conservative. I would venture to guess that the vast majority of students at The George Washington University, as well as students...
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Stuart Smalley runs for the Senate. I loved his early work, but the routine is getting old.
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I’m not going to talk about the Marriage issue- that horse has been beaten worse than Barbero (Too soon?)…. I think what needs to be talked about now is who the GW Conservatives (not just the CRs.) who are going to support in 08. Rudy Giuliani-Despite my personal preference for the former New York...
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Chris Diaz (classicelephant) made a few insightful points in his post regarding the CR gay marriage event and traditional marriage as a conservative ideal. Personally I believe the event today was a complete waste of time and in the end did little to further the conservative cause (which I do believe consists of defending...
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I’ll be writing up some thoughts on today’s event and the marriage debate in general tomorrow after I finish the paper I haven’t started, but until then here are a couple of articles that challenge the conventional wisdom of our generation about marriage. Here’s one by Stanley Kurtz and another by Maggie Gallagher. There...
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Today is Valentine’s Day and, as anyone with a Facebook account at GWU must know, our student body was preparing to celebrate the holiday of love in the strange way that those professing to be “politically active” often do: by protesting. What’s important, though, is what actually went down on campus today—almost nothing at...
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This article by Daniel McCarthy in The American Conservative seems like a good place to start a discussion about politics at GW. A tinge of elitism and McCarthy’s and AmConMag’s own bias against the Iraq war color the article with its sense of victimhood for anti-Iraq war college conservatives who are a “minority within...
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