Spring Break
If democracy is indeed even present in Russian politics, then it is at least a joke. In a country plagued throughout modern history with economic and political crisis, and now with a former KGB leader as their prime minister it is safe to say that democracy in this post-soviet country will inevitably fail.
President Bush's release of his proposed budget for fiscal year 2004 should help reignite the smoldering debate over tax cuts and an economic stimulus plan to help bolster the staggering economy. Many critics of the budget will point to the record deficits it will create in coming years.
Last Saturday, the United States and the rest of the world were forced to cope with the kind of tragedy it hadn't seen since 1986, and had hoped it would never see again, as the NASA space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry over the southern United States.
One of the dumbest trends I've seen resulting from the fallout of Sept. 11th, when the so-called liberal intellectual elite started speaking out against rash warmongering, is the idea conservatives are somehow being discriminated against from within the university system.
I continue to be shocked and dismayed at the unjustified support of war against Iraq, which I once again saw in Sean Nottage's column "War with Iraq is inevitable and much needed." Like so many who are calling for war, his arguments rely on lies that the Bush administration have repeated so often that people have taken them as fact.