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***RIR 10-30.indd 1 11/20/08 8:25:07 AM 2 • IGHT ISLE EVIEW • OCTOBER 30, 2008 RIGHT AISLE REVIEW STAFF Travis L. Harvey Editor-in-Chief George Scoville III Deputy Editor, Senior Staff Writer, Photographer Eric S. Deems Managing Editor Tyler Johnson Chief Financial Officer George Shifflett Administrative Editor Mark Noth IGHT ISLE EVIEW Circulation and Distribution, Staff Writer MISSION STATEMENT Payten Butler Recruitment Director To provide a reliable conservative and libertarian channel for Lindsey Pearson students at Belmont University which explores new ground by Fundraising Coordinator promoting a clash on issues important to our community. 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Box 158085, Nashville, TN 37215 Melanie Bull, Political Science David Grizzell, Management TABLE OF CONTENTS Abby Robinson, Political Science Letters To The Editor .........................3 Talking Trash ........................................9 Where Did Ron Paul Go? ................ 15 I Am Not A Stereotype .......................4 Debate '08 In Pictures .................10-11 Sorry, No Savior This Cycle ............ 16 Cover By: Student Moms Reach Out ..................4 From Here to Anywhere? ................ 12 Talking Taxes With TJ ...................... 16 John Still and Nate Short Calling Out Campolo ..........................5 Nationalized Health Care: Veteran Healthcare is Disgusting .... 17 Photography By: Blackburn Breaks Down Bailouts Expedient but Wrong .................. 12 On Being A Libertarian ................... 18 & Big Government Blunders ..........6 Camp David III? ............................... 13 There Will Be Blood ......................... 18 George Scoville and Nate Short From Songwriter to Speechwriter .....7 Promoting the American Reviewing An American Carol ........ 19 Layout By: Debate, Dissent...Dialogue? ...............8 Dream With...Shame? .................. 14 Upcoming Events ............................. 20 Lillian Abernathy Is Change Just Routine? ......................8 "Wicked" Liberal ............................... 14 Doubting the Democracy of Debates ....9 The Libertarian Comeback .............. 15 ***RIR 10-30.indd 2 11/20/08 8:25:07 AM OCTOBER 30, 2008 • IGHT ISLE EVIEW •3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “RESPONSE TO about his unifying or disunifying with a reverence for a free society couldn’t even pronounced Gov. ‘THE NEW RACISM’” presence in the Senate. I would vote for this man?”... I will show Palin’s name, or remember the like her to possibly provide you on November 4. name of Sen. Obama’s book (a In response to Hannah Shipp’s evidence of Sen. McCain’s bestseller the audio version of article, “The New Racism,” I have unifying presence in the Senate. Dylan March which has won a Grammy). a few points to make. Since it doesn’t seem like this Sophomore Religion Major paper is privy to research, I will For educated, productive discus- First, I have to agree with her leave that out here. sion, I suggest that the next time statement that “voting for MORE OF THE SAME you invite a speaker to come Obama solely because of the Thirdly, as any person who Dear Right Aisle, to campus, you have him or color of his skin is as misguided actually pays attention to facts I must say that I was thoroughly dis- her do their homework and not as voting against him because of would know, there is a stark appointed in your Race and be blinded by an ideology that the color of is skin.” That much is difference between “supporting Conservative Politics convoca- excludes those who don’t think true. We do need to get beyond abortion,” as Shipp puts it, and tion. I came in the hopes of a like him or her. She actually said race and realize the merits of the “supporting abortion rights,” as if bipartisan approach and evalu- that the man in the audience individual. Obama wakes up in the morning, ation of conservative politics who disagreed with her message hoping to kill as many babies as regarding race, but what I got should get “saved” by the Bible- I want to respond, however, he can. Again, Shipp neglects to was a Democratic-bashing ses- believing Christians in the room. to Shipp’s misguided attempts provide information about the sion by a woman who seemed She said she was joking, but let’s at sensationalizing the anti- Born Alive Infant Protection to be blinded by her partisan, be real here. This election sea- Obama campaign with research. Act, about which I’m sure political religion. As a religion son, we need people who will First, Shipp says that “he lacks she’s talking. The Act included major studying in-depth theol- create civil discussion on both the necessary experience to federal language which not only ogy, I was embarrassed to see sides of the aisle, not just the be commander in chief.” She discouraged Obama, but other such lack of knowledge by “right aisle” or the “left.” We need only mentions his community Illinois State Senators, some of someone who uses her faith to people who see the election organization (which is a very them Republican (gasp!) who inform her politics. She used as more than abortion (as Dr. honorable and difference-making recognize state sovereignty and the fact that war existed in the Swain seemed to show), more job), and his teaching law at limited government. Bible as a defense for the Iraq than immigration, more than Chicago. She makes no mention War, and paid no attention to the gay marriage. We need a mes- of his eleven years of political I want free speech on campus, theological implications and the sage of unity, not partisanship. experience in the Illinois State and I actually support this context in which the Bible was Senate and the United States newspaper. While I do not agree written. She used the idea that Senate (compare that to George with 99% of what is said, I want David, Solomon, Saul, and others Sala’amu Alaykum W. Bush’s six years political free speech available to students. were unqualified to be kings as (peace be upon you), experience before becoming However, I hope that students a defense for Sarah Palin’s candi- Dylan March president). So tell me, how much will know that sensationalist, dacy to the head of the Senate, Sophomore Biblical Studies experience is necessary, and unresearched, and anti-liberal but paid no attention to the fact Major what kind of experience? rhetoric has little merit in this that they did not live in a rep- election season. I hope that resentative democratic republic Also, Shipp examines Obama’s students will do their own in 2008, or to the fact that Sen. record as a “uniter” and criticizes research and know the truth. Obama has twice the amount it. However, she neglects to of political experience as Palin. provide any facts and research Shipp asks, “How could anyone Not to mention the fact that she We invite comments on all published content. Please send Letters to the Editor to [email protected]. Since space is limited, please limit remarks to a maximum 400 words ***RIR 10-30.indd 3 11/20/08 8:25:08 AM 4 • IGHT ISLE EVIEW • OCTOBER 30, 2008 SOCIAL ISSUES I AM NOT A STEREOTYPE By Hannah Shipp J. Phillipe Rushton once I find myself defending to me? Party fought to keep their slaves, and remarked that “Social my conservatism frequently Why do we examine minority they attempted several times to block scientists have spent enor- to liberals because I do not conservatives under a microscope desegregation efforts. mous effort in-vestigating how match their stereotypical view each time we discover their political I urge people everywhere to stop ‘stereotypes’ are perpetuated, of minorities. During my first persuasion? I am a conservative because categorizing black citizens and I call for but in recent times they semester at Belmont, people the Democratic Party and their pals at slimy leftist politicians to stop waging a have spent very little assumed I was a Democrat; the ACLU advocate everything I abhor as race war against the GOP.