House Editorial: A whole new meaning for ‘Star Wars’

When picking up the Washington Post yesterday, it did not take much to imagine John Cleese from Monty Python sitting at his desk: “And now for something completely different — the president of the United States has officially annexed outer space.” More...

Conspiracy Theory: Fattening the caste
By Leela Pereira, senior writer

Two years ago, my sisters and I sat laughing over breakfast in a wealthy Mumbai apartment. A chart on the back of a cereal box amused us. According to the chart, my eldest sister was mildly overweight. My sister is actually quite slim. However, in a third world country like India, the prevalence of malnutrition among children makes skinniness a standard. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Uncle Sam’s ‘rules’ of engagement
By Jeff Genota, contributing writer

Engagement has been a widely-used term for direct negotiations or cooperation with pariah states like Iran and North Korea, an idea largely shunned by hawks in Washington — or rather the “chicken hawks” like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, because doing so “appeases” evil. The record shows that the United States does not negotiate with pariah nations that has historically humiliated and willingly irritated Uncle Sam. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Hypocrisy at its best
By Craig Finkelstein, contributing writer

Election time has come, and instead of focusing on our necessary war in Iraq, the threat of global terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the Democrats have managed to smear the campaign with a platform of hating Bush and voting to ensure that America is less safe than before Sept. 11. More...

Breeze Perspectives: What you don’t know can, in fact, hurt you
By Richelle Plotz, contributing writer

In precisely 19 days, the Marshall-Newman amendment will be proposed to the Constitution. More commonly referred to as the marriage amendment, it unclearly outlines a prohibition of same-sex marriage and restricts “all civil unions, domestic partnerships and other legal agreements …  for any unmarried couples in Virginia.” More...

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