2008 Woodie Awards
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Credit card companies unfairly target college crowd
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As college students, financial troubles are not uncommon in life. Sometimes problems arise when trying to pool together enough money to buy dinner for the evening. Or, money worries manifest through the stress of accumulating and paying off student loans in the future, paying the bills accumulating now, or similar long-term commitments.
Throw your vote away, the third party way
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It seems every election cycle will reignite old arguments about third party candidates; we're told the lesser of two evils is still unacceptable or that voting for third party candidates is throwing one's vote away. In Kyle Shmidlin's column, "Remember there's more than two candidates this November," he advocates we should use our vote "wisely to force attention to the issues that really matter and are better represented by the largely-ignored third party candidates.
Supreme court justices will be true legacy
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"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever," William Howard Taft once proclaimed. The only president to go on to serve on the Supreme Court, Taft may very well have been showing lingering bitterness toward the presidency. Taft, who was nominated by Warren Harding to be the chief justice, lost his 1912 re-election bid after a third-party challenge by his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt.
Debate round one: slight edge to Obama
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I will smash an egg on my head if Sen. Barack Obama is not elected to become the 44th President of the United States. Full disclosure: James Carville pulled this same stunt on live television after John Kerry had lost to President Bush in 2004. But the atmosphere for this election is radically different from the one of four years ago, and it took its sharpest turns after the commencement of the most destructive economic collapse in this country's history since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and after the first debate between Obama and Sen.
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