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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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Life, Liberty, and...Health Care?

Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it?

Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have argued over many points, such as which kinds of reforms would most effectively give all Americans access to health care and how much we should be willing to spend on such programs.

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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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If only all the Goldman partners thought this way

Over at the Huffington Post, former Goldman Sachs partner Greg Zehner writes that Ayn Rand foresaw the economic crisis the United States now faces, as well as the disastrous consequences the various proposed bailouts will have.

"Ayn Rand warned us this would happen. In the classic, Atlas Shrugged, she wrote about governmental powers manipulating markets in order to advance political concerns.

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