There are litanies of American political dilemmas that stem from the classic obstinacy of wanting to have our cake and eat it too. I want to fabricate an artificial democracy in the Middle East in an unknown, tribal land of lawlessness and power-grabbing, but I also want everything accomplished in a couple years without...
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Having our Cake
An Introduction
In case you missed it, my name is Tom Bird and I’m a Sophomore here at GW planning to major in Economics for a B.S. I consider myself politically independent, although I call myself many things as far as politics. First and foremost, my posts will focus on the lunacy and hypocrisy of statism...
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4/20
Let’s talk pot, shall we? Prohibition is a dirty word in 21st century America, as it should be! Those in American society who look down their noses at people who drink are seen as infantile or immature or simply no fun. The neo-puritanical view of smoking (cigarettes or cigars) is treated similarly, though it...
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Demarchy in the S.A.
Five points to me for the clever Sex Pistols pun. But seriously. Following up on J.J.’s suggestion, I’m interested in the possibility of replacing the S.A. with demarchy. Power to the randomly-selected committee of the people! First, J.J. is right to point out that Jesse and Cantalone nurse unrealistic dreams of a “‘drama-free’ committee...
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Why There Was No Senate Coverage
From the sound of it, I didn’t miss too much, though I would have liked to have seen the debate on Glatter’s ethics bill. (It was an excellent piece of legislation, which explains why the Senate voted it down.) Two reasons that I wasn’t there: 1) I forgot that that S.A. Senate was having...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – RIP
Russian dramatist, novelist, and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died yesterday in his home in Moscow, reports say. A survivor of Stalin’s Gulag, Solzhenitsyn has long been considered the most poignant and persuasive critic of the “Evil Empire”. But to only focus on this aspect of his life, as most on the Right have done so...
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Let Prudence Rule
“It could last six days, six weeks… I doubt six months…” -Donald Rumsfeld The American adventure in Iraq is now five years old and an honest analysis is definitely necessary at this juncture, especially with an election approaching. I remember very vividly the debate leading up to the war and I...
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Iraq and "True Believers"
I’ve avoided writing anything substantial about the War in Iraq for some time now–ever since last summer, before Pat was miraculously converted to a view similar to my own (something for which I take no credit)–but with the hawkish McCain having secured the nomination, and a pile of work on my desk begging me...
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OG & "The Old Establishment"
As a commenter pointed out earlier, OG is actually not resigning from the Senate, and will be continuing his write-in campaign for the S.A. Presidency. Here’s what he told the GW Hatchet: “People said no,” Oyiborhoro told me. “The old establishment said no. They tried to subvert the democratic process at GW. People are...
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Drugs and the Law
I was riding the bus through Piccadilly Circus the other day, and I noticed on the SKY News crawl (similar to what they have in New York’s Times Square) that, according to one recent study, the downgrading of marijuana to a “Class C” drug, which decriminalized possession in small amounts, has led Britain’s youth...
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