Lover of Women, Conquerer of Nations: Dear future wife: We have business to go over
By Bobby McMahon, senior writer

Dear future wife,

Hello, my darling. You don’t know it yet, but you and I are going to be married someday. Married, as in ‘til death do us part. That’s a mighty long time. I bet you’re enjoying all the riches of your youth, living it up in college (or high school) and learning much about the ways of the world. You’re probably a woman of style and grace, of understanding and compassion, and I look forward to the day when we share our nuptials, consummate our marriage and then head to the reception. More...

The Writing on the Wall: New York, night court, and the reason for the season
By Brian Goodman, opinion editor

Legend has it that, in the winter of 1935, New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wandered into night court and gave the judge the evening off. Mayor LaGuardia was known to occasionally relieve magistrates, as an old city ordinance allowed at the time, and arbitrate from the bench. Such unusual behavior was characteristic of “The Little Flower,” who has gone down in the annals of history as one of the city’s greatest mayors for carrying the Big Apple through the Great Depression and the start of the Second World War. More...

Through the Looking Glass: The grinch that stole easter — from public colleges
By Sarah Delia, staff writer

Creating the illusion of Santa Claus was tough enough on my parents, what with the whole concept of a morbidly obese man sucking in his gut to kamikaze himself down the chimney to eat cookies — furthering his tubbiness — place presents under a dead tree, and then stuff an enlarged sock which dangled dangerously over our fiery mantel. But Easter, well Easter was always a joyous, unquestioned occasion that I looked forward to. It was a day full of eating justified chocolate, parading around in Easter clothes, and of course the infamous Delia Family Easter egg hunt which took place every year in our living room. It was survival of the fittest amongst the Delia children as my brother and I scrambled to get all the eggs in our baskets — and when he turned his head, you better believe I was grabbing those eggs from his basket and placing them in mine. Don’t judge, karma has caught up to me, as my once tiny younger brother, whom I used to make cry on the day of our Lord’s Resurrection, has now surpassed me in over eight inches in height and over a hundred pounds in weight. Just imagine that Easter basket. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Examining Iraq leaves questions unanswered
By Anthony Riedel, contributing writer

We are now three years into Operation Iraqi Freedom. The consensus is Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction and had nothing to do with the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001; thus making President George W. Bush a liar. We all know that U.S., British, French, Italian, German, Egyptian, Jordanian and Russian intellegence agencies thought Hussein possessed WMDs. We also know that the mainsteam media has proven Hussein’s WMD program as a myth. More...

House Editorial: As victims continue to die, Sept. 11 still won't

It was only a paltry little sidebar story, but the signs are troubling: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are still killing people. More...

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