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Imagine a playroom filled with toddlers.  One of the toddlers decides to take all the toys for himself. The other children are left toyless and crying. The teacher sees this injustice and then distributes the toys amongst the kids, making sure that everyone has an equal amount and no one is left out. Any liberal would look at this example and make the clear connection between the greedy child and a capitalist, as well as between the teacher and a benevolent socialist government. Read More »

For the past year, events like tea parties and town hall meetings have shown that people are beginning to form a general distaste toward liberal programs such as cap-and-trade and government-run healthcare. Conservatism seems to be on the rise right now because Americans are upset about a lack of efficiency in Washington. They are also beginning to show that they do not connect with a Presidential administration that has proven itself nothing short of radical.  Read More »

Last year, Purdue underwent a change in letter grade evaluations. The University now factors pluses and minuses into students’ grade point averages. The policy was implemented with the argument that it would either benefit students’ GPAs or have no effect at all. In the time leading up to this change, newspaper editorials said that on average, a plus would negate a minus. Yet, there was one circumstance in which this did not apply – the A minus. Read More »

The United States was once called “the Land of Opportunity” because any one person could leave the Old World and journey across the ocean to make something of himself. In the Old World, someone’s status remained stagnant throughout his life. The opportunity in the United States allowed an individual to succeed without respect to where he was born or from which class he came. The power of the individual and the success it brings is what created the American Dream.  Read More »

Nailing down a definition for a political ideology to accurately reflect a large number of people’s opinions is nothing less than a harrowing task. Conservatism, Libertarianism, Liberalism, Communism, Socialism, and Anarchism are but a few ideologies in the plethora of political thoughts possessed by members of society.  These ideologies all have popular and sometimes clear cut definitions. However, get any two libertarians in a room and it is good money to predict you would hear a wide ranging debate over what Libertarianism is, should be, has been, and is not. Read More »

I am intrigued by the inadequacies of our current government.  The shortfalls of the government would be more amusing if they were not affecting every man, woman, and child in our great country.  We are facing a depression.  There is no other appropriate word to describe our current economic climate.  However, no one wants come out and call it a depression because everyone is afraid of the implications.  Unemployment is high, the national debt keeps going up, and many students have graduated into joblessness. Read More »