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(11/19/09 2:54am)
Many Pennsylvania Democrats I know have mixed feelings about Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. On the one hand, he used to be the kind of Republican they liked — moderate, independent, with a wicked sense of humor. He agrees with them on abortion rights, environmental issues and illegal immigration. For years, they have helped him win re-election to the U.S. Senate by crossing over and supporting him in general elections. But that was then.
(11/12/09 2:48am)
PHILADELPHIA — Libertarians are a diverse bunch. Some of them wish they could abolish government entirely. Others just want its power reduced. But what unites them is their shared belief that the state should be substantially smaller and do drastically less.
(11/05/09 2:47am)
At 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, spoke to the AU College Democrats in Butler Board Room. In an exclusive interview with The Eagle following the event, Begich touched on the issues of federal spending and anti-tax tea parties. He also explained how he recently fixed a toilet at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
(11/02/09 2:44am)
A little after 4 p.m. last Thursday, Oct. 29, just hours after House Democrats unveiled their bill to reform health care in America, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., arrived at the Library of Congress looking tired.
(10/29/09 2:59am)
About a year ago, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote an incredibly insightful column called “The Class War Before Palin.” In it, he describes the anti-intellectualism that afflicts today’s Republican Party. He explains how politicians like Sarah Palin rail against educated elites and refuse to make an intellectual case for conservatism. “What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals,” Brooks writes, “slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole.”
(09/21/09 3:00am)
President Barack Obama outlined ways that proposed health care reform would benefit young Americans in a speech at the University of Maryland-College Park, Thursday, Sept. 17.
(09/14/09 3:10am)
Until this weekend, I gave the Tea Partiers the benefit of the doubt. On principle, I support protests. I think they’re good for democracy. Besides, I didn’t want to believe these anti-tax, anti-Obama demonstrators were the rabid, right-wing radicals Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and other liberals made them out to be. I assumed most of these demonstrators had mainstream political views, that they were garden-variety conservative dissenters who disagreed with the president’s liberal policies. Still, I wanted to be sure. I wanted to know for certain.
(08/13/09 10:13pm)
If Ronald Reagan could see AU's campus today, he would surely say, "It's morning again at American." As always, the start of a new school year has AU students feeling renewed, reinvigorated and reengaged. You can see it in our faces. You can feel it in the air. The positive energy on campus is palpable. And we are going to need it, fellow Eagles, because, starting today, we have a mission. We begin a quest to reclaim our rightful place atop Princeton Review's list of America's "most politically active" campuses. We have been there before. We can be there again.
(06/18/09 4:00am)
I am so awkward at frat parties. I occasionally go to them with friends who, unlike me, are in greek life, but I always feel hopelessly out of place. Truth be told, I feel more at home having a buffet breakfast at the Brookings Institution, which I sometimes do on free mornings before hearing a talk at the think tank. Think about that. What could possibly be better than savoring a cheese Danish while watching Washington's wonkiest discussing health care policy or counterterrorism strategies? The best part is, the whole morning is free.
(03/02/09 5:00am)
President Obama's first address to Congress sparked reaction last week from AU's students and expert analysts who are anxious to see how the new president will confront America's challenges.
(02/02/09 5:00am)
Since March of 2007, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has offered a weekly podcast on their Web site and through iTunes music store, but the podcast has gone unnoticed by some of the AU community.
(01/26/09 5:00am)
In a recent Newseum event, PBS television anchor Gwen Ifill defended her recent book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," against criticism that it contained pro-Obama biases.