Health care is not a right

An editorial to the Cavalier Daily has commented on whether or not people have a right to health care. What is fundamentally different about health care that people prioritize it as something that should be treated different than other economic resources?

What does the Department of Homeland Security think of you?

You can request information from your file from the Department of Homeland Security. I found this on BoingBoing.

Rep. Doggett on the Surge

Religious Utopianism in the Middle East

Fighting Utopia with Utopia is doomed to failure, according to Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, regardless of the form it takes.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/anthony_m_stevensarroyo/2007/09/religious_utopias_gone_amuck.html

Is the surge working? Maybe

The debate continues.

"Natural" Events

Flooding in Africa, opening of the northwest passage, climate change?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6994995.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6995999.stm

I got an email from a woman named Sarah Myers who thought you all might be interested in this opportunity. If you are, you need to RSVP to sbm6x@virginia.edu so that she will save you a spot.

Risa Goluboff
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Monday, September 17, 2007
11:00 AM

Risa Goluboff, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, has published a new history of the civil rights movement in the 1940s. Her book, hailed by reviewers as "brilliant" and placing her "at the front rank of twentieth-century American historians," shows how movement activists focused on redressing prejudice faced by agricultural and industrial workers before desegregating public secondary and elementary schools. Goluboff argues that when NAACP lawyers succeeded in Brown v. Board, they marginalized the host of other problems afflicting most African Americans. Goluboff earned a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and a law degree at Yale Law School, where she was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. A book signing will follow her Forum.

General Betrayus

Moveon.org ad in the New York Times before General Petraeus' testimony before Congress

What is ethical to teach in a classroom?

What is ethical to teach in a classroom? Is this?

BBC Survey

BBC Survey: Iraqis feel surge has made security worse, increasingly blame American soldiers for high level of violence.

Interestingly enough, foreign jihadists are the second most blamed party, but they are percieved as being less to blame since the surge began. The Iraqi army and police are not largely considered aggravating the violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6983027.stm

Ron Paul

I recently got this facebook message. I said that our organization couldn't (and wouldn't) officially support Ron Paul, but that several individual members might be interested. Thus, I am passing it on to you...


Nicole Gugliucci
1:13pm September 7th
Report Message
Hello! My name is Nicole Gugliucci, and I'm a third year grad student at UVa. I was looking for a college libertarians group on campus for the purpose of getting people interested in the Presidential campaign of Ron Paul. Someone on the Ron Paul Facebook group mentioned that you might be a good contact for UVa. I'm one of only a few UVa students signed up at the Charlottesville Ron Paul MeetUp. We would like to start some kind of activities on campus, but I for one, as a grad student, am not very familiar with student groups on Grounds. First, I encourage you to check out out MeetUp group (http://ronpaul.meetup.com/120/?gj=sj5) and let me know if you have any suggestions for our UVa activities. Our next meeting is Monday at 7pm, and they are a really great group of people. Also, does the Libertarian group still meet on grounds? The Student Activities Center website listed it as "not active." Thanks for your help!

Bush wins; there will be a troop surge

There is an impending troop surge in Iraq. What would the efficacy of this be? How did this happen politically?

Part of the PATRIOT Act has been overturned

The FBI can no longer "obtain ISP and telecom subscribers' billing, calling and Web surfing records without court approval," because it "violates the U.S. Constitution."

Link

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/New_book_details_backroom_White_House_0904.html

Poor performance from VPO

The Cavalier Daily had an article about the VPO's poor performance. Let's discuss who is at fault, and focus on what the committee does, and how.