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Side Rants- Firearms and 18 Fatal Gun Accidents AQUINAS I THURSDAY. MARCH 10, 2005 FORUM 5 DISPATCHES FACULTY GUEST COLUMN Going Home Santorum v. Casey By VINNY SOLOMENO until I sneaked through the door at three. in By DR. WILLIAM PARENTE Nancy Pelosi, continues to lead the minority Staff Columnist the morning and was greeted by the howls Professor of Pol1tlcal Sc1ence Democrats in the House. of my tiny Beagle, Winston. Would the election of Bob Casey, Jr as the Last weekend my mother got her revenge I hung out with my friends. Most were The November 2006 race for the US US Senator from Pennsylvania move the on me for my years of misbehavior and dis­ home from school already, and a bunch Senate will feature incumbent Republican, Democrats toward the center of the political obedience. All throughout high school I never actually left. Driving around my Rick Santorum, versus the Democratic chal­ spectrum and advance the anti-abortion rebelled, staying out too late, listening to neighborhood and causing trouble, I real­ lenger, Bob C'.asey, Jr, the State Treasurer of cause? music too loud, dating girls she never ized how great it is to come home to the Pennsylvania. I always say that politics is Or does it make more sense for social con­ approved of, and being an all around pain. guys and. girls I spent my childhood with. the second most exciting thing in the world servatives and pro-lifers to vote for Rick Through it all, Mom had no choice but to Do you remember the time you lit your and this race proves the pomt! You have Santorum, who has championed the pro-life grin and bear it. This past Saturday, I left pants on fire at some girl's thirteenth birth­ everything here: ethnic clash- Italian versus position for twelve years in the Senate? Scranton behind and headed home for what day party? I didn't, or at least I didn't until Irish, regional clash- Western Pennsylvania A Santorum defeat, if added to COP loss­ I had been dreading for weeks: an official my old friend Nick reminded me that I did. versus Eastern Pennsylvania, family feud­ es in other states--Senator Chafcc of Rhode family portrait. When I complained that I There is something to be said for your ordinary folks versus the son of a former lslarid, for example--could well lead to the hated posing for pictures, she simply smiled friends here at Scranton, the ones who Governor, and above all, the party clash­ GOP losing control of the Senate and all of and said, "Just grin and bear it." share the ups and downs of college life with GOP versus Democrat. the Senate committees. Barbara Mikulski Without mincing words, this semester has you. Yet, there is also something to be said But all of the above is obvious. The sub­ would become chair of Veterans' Affairs & been one of my most difficult since arriving of your friends back home, the ones who text here is even more tantalizing. Social HUD, Jim Jeffords, chair of the at Scranton. It seems that the never-ending saw you through Dyno, VFRs, Friday nights issues in general, but the abortion issue in Environmental comrmttec, Ted Kennedy, quizzes of February have given way to at the movies, your first kiss, and whatever particular, are at the heart of this contest. chair of the committee on Health, Education March's exams and research papers. Feeling other mischief that came along with grow­ On the one hand we have the ferociously and Labor, Pat Leahy would again become stressed, going home was a welcome respite ing up. pro-life Santorum who, with the recent chair of the Judiciary committee and block from the demands of everyday life here at . College is about growing up, going to class retirement of Jesse Helms, can be said to be Bush's conservative nominees to the federal school. Once the portrait was over with, and learning so that we can make good the most conservative member of the US courts. Other Democrats assuming Senate there was nothing but relaxation and lives for ourselves. Back home, free to forget Senate on social issues- a red flag waving chairmanships include Chris Dodd, Joe smooth sailing. impending History and Philosophy exams, I over a blue state. Biden, Paul Sarbanes, Kerb Kohl, Daniel I spent time with my family. Being away was comfortable, relaxed, and just plain On the other side we have the loyal son of Akaka, John Rockefeller IV, and John Kerry-­ at school, I sometimes forget what a home­ happy to be with the family and friends I a Democratic Governor who was famously pro-choice liberals all. cooked meal tastes like. However, raiding love. This will be my last column before denied the requested opportunity to Bob Casey Jrs endorsement of John Kerry Mom's refrigerator was not my only pleas­ Spring Break. As each of us leaves campus address the 1992 Democratic National in the recent presidential election and his ure. My jeans, not having been washed for and heads all across the country (well, Convention in order to urge a pro-life pos­ earlier endorsement of Ed Rendell in the three weeks, made their way back to mostly to New Jersey and Long Island), keep ture for his party- somewhat more than the gubernatorial election, suggests that like his Scranton crisp and clean. For the first tin1e in mind what you are leaving behind, but "lower-the-rhetoric" position which Hillary father, he puts loyalty to his party above in months, I showered without flip-flops. more important, remember what you are Clinton and other Democrats have been any particular issue. His liberal position on Does anyone else remember what it was going home to. urging of late in the wake of two successive gay rights will place him to the left of like living with dogs? I know I did, at least There is no place like it. defeats against a relatively weak GOP pres­ Santorum. This week's defeat of idential candidate, the decade-long loss of Santorum's compromise bill to increase the "LIFE" • CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 the House and continuing erosion of their minimum wage demonstrates that the Senate seats. Democrats are intent on Santorum's defeat. What gives us the right to go prancing killed a year as a result of gun violence. How will the pro-life vote in Pennsylvania Barbara Hafer has again damaged her around in camouflaged gear shooting ani­ Instead, George Bush is siding with pro­ split in 2006? Does it make sense to vote for standing with Pennsylvania voters by first mals for the fun of it, stuffing them and gun lobbyists and political action commit­ Casey in order to promote anti-abortion announcing she would challenge Casey in showing them off in our living rooms? What tees in Washington. The NRA's committee policies in both parties instead of just one? the Democratic primary-at Rendell's did the poor little squirrels ever do to us?! for example, gave Republicans $1,330,111 With the choice of Harry Reid, a pro-life request-and then announcing two days later and $285,700 to Democrats during the last It bewilders me that our own president Mormon from Nevada as the minority she would not-again at Rendell's request! had the audacity to promise Americans dur­ election. Overall, according to the Federal leader for the Democrats in the Senate, one Can anyone take her seriously? Election Commission, gun rights grouns ing his 2000 campaign he would sign an could argue that the Democrats have The Democrats have done well by avoid­ extension to the 10-year ban on semiauto­ contributed over $17 million in individual, received the election message. The defeat ing a primary fight and the attendant matic weapons, yet sat on his Texan heinie PAC and soft money contributions to both of Senator Daschle, the former minority expenses of such a campaign. Money will parties since 1989. Yet, $15 million of that $17 this last September as the 1994 Assault leader, has .been pondered by party chiefs. flow to Casey from liberal interest groups all million went to the Republican Party. Weapons Ban expired. Why would George On the other hand, the election of pro­ over the nation-from Hollywood to the Perhaps George Bush didn't want to make Bush allow AK47s and other semi-automat­ choice Howard Dean over pro-life Tim Hamptons. Santorum is in the fight of his ic assault weapons to flood our streets his contributors angry. In the end, it doesn't Roemer for chairman of the Democratic life! H he wins in 2006, he may well be on come down to the welfare of the American again? He surely isn't siding with the drug National Committee suggests that the heart the GOP ticket in 2008. dealers, gang members, and other danger­ people. Instead, it all comes down to dollars of the party is still on the left side of its Did I say politics was the SECOND most ous criminals who use these weapons. He and cents. chest. And the San Francisco Democrat, exciting thing in life? Scratch that "second." isn't siding with the 30,000 plus victims "RUGER" - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 likely to do so in a municipality where gun guns, they don't seem to care about women "ABORTION" • CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 ownership is not restricted. In the same at all. Picture this, if you would- a woman While walking into the abortion clinic, Students for Life, Residence Life, Student way, a criminal is much more likely to com­ meets up with a man who is prepared to several pro-life sidewalk counselors Affairs and the Jesuit Community.
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