2008 Woodie Awards
Patrick Reilly and the Cardinal Newman Society have overstepped their bounds. As an organization that purports to value the importance of Catholic education, their recent foray into challenging the moral integrity of Fordham Law School has demonstrated that they should avoid involvement in anything more nuanced than the broad side of a barn, much less academia.
Millions in city and state tax dollars are being given to major businesses looking for an extra boost, and I'm not talking about a proposed $700 billion bailout. If you've followed the news over the past two weeks, you would guess that I'm talking about Wall Street and its businesses that have gone under because they didn't know when to say no.
"I don't know if we want to honor hate speech and give it a place. I really don't. And I think we're pretty much at one with many institutions on this. We will not abide hate speech on campus." - Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President of the University, in the Sept.
During the 2004 presidential election, voter turnout was at 41 percent. The 2008 presidential election is expected to draw similar numbers, but with a record number of absentee ballot voters: approximately one-third of votes counted will be absentee ballot votes.
Friday marked the first presidential debate in the 2008 election cycle. Over the course of the three debates, the candidates will try to address the people of America and prove that they are the right choice for the future president of the United States.
He looked charming. His words were articulate and quick-witted, and if one were only to get caught up in the aura of Barack Obama, one would think he's actually qualified to be president. My fear is that too many of my fellow Americans mistake Obama's eloquence for qualification and don't see the hollowness of his rhetoric and wrongness of his policies.