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(11/09/05 6:00am)
It would be tough to find two hotter teams in NCAA hockey than
the Wisconsin Badgers and the Colorado College Tigers. This weekend
one team has to cool off, if just a little bit, when the two teams
meet in Madison for the Western College Hockey Association
Conference lead on the line.
(05/06/04 6:00am)
This is my last column for The Daily Cardinal. This news will be
a disappointment to some and a cause to rejoice for others. There
is at first an urge to not get sentimental but instead write a
normal piece. However, that really can't be done. I'd like to say
that the last two years have been an amazing experience for me. To
know that enough people cared about my perspective to print it and
to read it has been an honor. I want to thank everyone involved in
making this column, everyone who wrote a letter to the editor, and
everyone who performed the simple act of reading my
opinions.
(05/05/04 6:00am)
This is my last column for The Daily Cardinal. This news will be
a disappointment to some and a cause to rejoice for others. There
is at first an urge to not get sentimental but instead write a
normal piece. However, that really can't be done. I'd like to say
that the last two years have been an amazing experience for me. To
know that enough people cared about my perspective to print it and
to read it has been an honor. I want to thank everyone involved in
making this column, everyone who wrote a letter to the editor, and
everyone who performed the simple act of reading my
opinions.
(04/29/04 6:00am)
It's usually not a good thing when a newspaperman writes himself
into the story. Writing oneself into the story usually represents a
failure to do real journalistic work. Sometimes, though, something
happens to a journalist that he should write about; there is a
legitimate story to be told. I believe this is such an occasion.
The community deserves to know that an elected official believes he
is entitled to minimal public opposition, and that he would resort
to threats against people to guarantee it.
(04/22/04 6:00am)
One of the best things about Madison is our vibrant bar scene.
Whether we're talking about the Pub, the Blue Velvet, the Plaza or
the Paradise Lounge, there are plenty of places to go and have a
fun time hanging out with your friends. Bars are a great place
within our society. They are places where people of all races,
religions and political persuasions can sit down together and get
hammered. They are places where we can cast off our pressures in
life for a moment through inebriation, gluttony and all-around
sinning. Or at least, we used to be able to.
(04/15/04 6:00am)
An old saying is that there are two things we should never talk
about at the dinner table: politics and religion. Religion doesn't
come up too often on this campus except when some protester takes
up a slot on Library Mall, like that guy who tied himself to a
cross on Good Friday. However, our being situated in a state
capital naturally makes us a center of politics. Debate can then
become a huge annoyance for those not already initiated, which is
of course the whole point of activism. So what happens when we as a
society try to impose limits on our political discourse?
(04/06/04 6:00am)
Being from New Jersey, a lot of people ask me how it is that a
guy like myself ended up all the way in Madison. I often reply that
there are surprisingly few large colleges located in state
capitals, and that such an arrangement provides a natural advantage
to a political science student like myself. The Capitol building is
mere blocks from my apartment. Between the usual college student
activism and the professional kind, opportunities to get involved
in politics are boundless. This Sunday we'll get a taste of that
when U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., comes to the campus to talk
about the Patriot Act.
(03/25/04 6:00am)
As citizens of the world's great superpower, we Americans can't
help but look at the every world event from the standpoint of how
it affects our immediate interests. A mistake we then make is to
imagine that foreign actors would center their own motives around
how their actions affect us. A great example has been the tendency
of our conservative media voices to ascribe some anti-American
motive to leaders of various European countries who have not backed
us in Iraq, rather than considering their own positions and how
committing to military action would affect their own governments.
The newest example has been the fallout from the election in
Spain.
(03/11/04 6:00am)
As the general election season begins, our country,
unfortunately, is about to be subjected to an avalanche of ad after
ad with exaggeration after exaggeration. Furthermore, every ad and
every selling point on both sides will be subjected to endless
second-guessing from the other side. In the case of the latest ads
from the Bush campaign, though, they really do deserve it.
(03/04/04 6:00am)
It's official. Though the Democratic National Convention is
months away, the nomination has been decided. In November,
President Bush will face Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry won nine
out of 10 contests held on Super Tuesday, forcing his final serious
rival Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., out of the race.
(02/26/04 6:00am)
President Bush announced Tuesday that he supports efforts by the
religious right to amend the constitution of our country to
prohibit same-sex marriages. In his speech he said the institution
of marriage was in danger as a result of recent events in
Massachusetts and San Francisco, and that the process of a
constitutional amendment had to be used to prevent a change in the
definition of marriage.
(02/20/04 6:00am)
Tuesday night a very important election took place, one for
which the repercussions could alter the very way we look at current
national politics and how this year's elections might turn out. I
am not talking at all about the Wisconsin Democratic primary. True,
Howard Dean has been finally forced from contention, John Kerry
retained his front-runner position, and John Edwards solidified his
place as the final opponent to Kerry. However, those are all small
details in the story of the Democratic nomination. I am referring
to a race that not enough pundits took notice of, a special
election in Kentucky for the House of Representatives.
(02/12/04 6:00am)
A great New Jerseyan, Yogi Berra, once said that it's hard to
make predictions, especially about the future. The last month of
American politics ought to remind everyone just how correct Berra
was.
(02/06/04 6:00am)
(01/29/04 6:00am)
As we head into the 2004 election it is going to become more and
more clear that President Bush will run on what he considers to be
a record of success in providing for the country's security as we
deal with the ever-present threat of terrorism. A centerpiece of
his foreign policy has been the war in Iraq, and the more the
public finds out about the decision-making process the more
disturbing all of this becomes.
(01/23/04 6:00am)
A great Midwesterner, the late Gov. Adlai Stevenson, D-Ill.,
said that truth is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, except
that the newspaper can print a retraction. In that spirit, I wish
to address the last column I did before break, a column wherein I
endorsed Howard Dean for president.
(12/10/03 6:00am)
A funny thing happened over Thanksgiving break. My Republican
uncle, who has supported Republicans in every election from Barry
Goldwater's in 1964 to Bush's in 2000, confessed to us just how
much he's come to dislike Bush, and how he'd like to see a credible
alternative in the election. ??
(12/04/03 6:00am)
In politics we often hear from conservatives about something
called \class warfare,"" which is when a liberal politician
proposes something for the relative benefit of those at the bottom
of the economic spectrum. Apparently, redistributing the tax burden
to the bottom is just fine by them, but complaining about it makes
one a bitter Marxist. However, anybody who thinks class warfare is
dead hasn't been watching enough television lately. A peek at any
reality show can tell you just how alive it is when sold
properly.
(11/20/03 6:00am)
Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts handed down
a widely anticipated ruling that the rights of a civil marriage
could not be denied to gay couples. As with all news stories, the
intricacies of the opinion were lost on those reporting it, valuing
sensationalism over straight reporting. \Gay Marriage Gains Victory
In Massachusetts,"" reported The New York Times. ""Gay Marriage Is
a Right, Massachusetts Court Rules,"" according to The Washington
Post. The truth is not as clear-cut as that, and failure to
properly understand this could endanger the cause of gay
rights.
(11/13/03 6:00am)
Anyone politically active in Wisconsin is disproportionately
likely to list campaign finance reform as a big issue as compared
with those in the rest of the country. This is perfectly
understandable, due to the reform crusade of U.S. Senator Russ
Feingold, D-Wisc.