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Campus Media Response: Obama repeats Bush's self-sacrificial sins in Afghanistan

Is Obama making the same mistakes in war as Bush?
The Daily Collegian
University of Massachusetts--Amherst

Dear Editors,

Matthew Robare says that President Obama has not delivered "hope" or "change" in foreign policy, as he promised.

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Whatever Happened to Suzette Kelo?

What do a wasteland full of weeds, Pfizer, and the Supreme Court have in common? The answer is the power of eminent domain. In the 2005 case of Kelo v.

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Agenda of Truth

The national community-based group, ACORN, recently underwent some investigative journalism Sacha Baron Cohen-style. What the amateur journalist/actors/videographers found were several employees well-versed in and comfortable with fraud.

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Correcting the Concession of Labor Day

The First Labor Day in New York, 1882On September 7th Americans observed the holiday known as Labor Day. Many of them, not knowing its origins, enjoyed a day, ironically, without labor.

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The High Cost of a Free Lunch

Congress recently approved a new budget of staggering proportions. Weighing in at $3.6 trillion, the plan provides billions in allocations towards a national health plan, green energy, foreign aid, education, and countless other programs. The president has declared that his budget is "an economic blueprint for the future- a vision of America... that will lead to a real and lasting prosperity." 

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Campus Media Response: Access to Water is not a Right

Thirsting After Sanity, March 26th, 2009
The Gauntlet
The University of Calgary

Sir—

In your article you argue that by extension the right to life implies that humans have a right to water. This is a gross misunderstanding of what it means for an individual to have a right. The concept, properly understood, does not refer to entitlement, but to freedom from force. Having the right to liberty, for example, does not mean that you are entitled to own a personal jet.

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