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Positive: President Bush will have a good legacy

Posted on 06 November 2008 by Jason Ardanowski

In January of this year, I was in Austin, Texas for a wedding. The next day, I went to Johnson City and visited President Lyndon Johnson’s boyhood home and the adjacent museum. I realized that I had reduced Johnson’s presidency down to one good policy and one bad one: his courageous stand on behalf of [...] Continue Reading

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Negative: President Bush will not have a good legacy

Posted on 06 November 2008 by Adam Ryback

If President Bush is about to leave office with one of the lowest approval ratings in history. There are many reasons for this poor rating. The first could be the plummeting economy. During a bad economy people often automatically blame the president, seeing his role as more legislative than executive, despite the fact that the president [...] Continue Reading

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Barack Obama should be the next president of the United States

Posted on 23 October 2008 by Jason Ardanowski

I’m not going to offer yet another left-secular endorsement of Barack Obama for President. Instead, I offer a far more radical endorsement: Obama is the better choice than John McCain based on the editorial principles of The Warrior. Obama will do more for Marquette students. He will do more to hold the federal government and the [...] Continue Reading

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John McCain should be the next president of the United States

Posted on 23 October 2008 by Austin Wozniak

This November, as the fall temperatures drop, Americans will head to the polls in as critical an election as has been seen in recent memory. The two candidates, I believe, are honorable men and I do not for a moment accept the partisan rancor that members of political parties seem to hold for the [...] Continue Reading

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YES - Should the U.S. close the School of the Americas?

Posted on 09 October 2008 by Jason Ardanowski

The School of the Americas, which has been known as WHINSEC (the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) since 2001, trains 700 to 1,000 Latin American leaders every year in U.S. military tactics, counter-terrorism, suppression of the narcotics trade and, according to the non-governmental organization School of the Americas Watch, torture and the violation of [...] Continue Reading

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NO - Should the U.S. close thea School of the Americas?

Posted on 09 October 2008 by Austin Wozniak

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), also known as the School of the Americas (SOA) is a major United States endeavor to prevent the creation of hostile regimes in the Western Hemisphere, thereby improving the National Security of the United States. It is a classic example of a good idea and a [...] Continue Reading

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YES - Should the government bailout mortgage companies?

Posted on 24 September 2008 by Jason Ardanowski

Marquette students should celebrate the government-funded bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and lately AIG. The bold and forceful action of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, acting as economic czar for the Bush administration, allows our parents to keep giving us money for a little while longer. I will not deny that the ham-fisted policies [...] Continue Reading

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NO - Should the government bailout mortgage companies?

Posted on 24 September 2008 by Austin Wozniak

Congratulations. You have gotten a job, earned some money, paid some taxes and are now supporting hundreds of people who are living beyond their means. Recent events in the past few weeks have brought the long discussed ‘credit crises’ to a boiling point. The events of the past week clearly indicate a [...] Continue Reading

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Should there be a student on the board of trustees? - No

Posted on 16 April 2008 by Adam Covach

The Board of Trustees is Marquette’s overarching, governing body. The idea of it having a student member, no matter how interesting that may be, is simply not wise. Where to begin? For starters, whether we like it or not, Marquette is in fact…a business. Normally, businesses only directly affect investors or those employed by them. [...] Continue Reading

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Wiretaps promote freedom

Posted on 02 April 2008 by Robert Christensen

Last spring, former Attorney General John Ashcroft came and spoke on Marquette’s campus. In the speech he addressed a variety of different issues, but one of his primary focuses was the Patriot Act and, in particular, wiretaps. Ashcroft believes that wiretaps do not destroy freedom but foster it. Opponents of wiretaps believe the government [...] Continue Reading

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