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Hokies must learn from last-second loss

December 2, 2008

Call it another edition of "Hokie Heartbreak."

Column: Surviving the longest week of your student life

November 19, 2008

Holidays are coming, but before we get to relax and eat turkey, we must endure what I have come to think of as the longest week of the year: the week preceding Thanksgiving break.

Column: To ignore the benefits of nuclear energy would be a huge mistake

November 19, 2008

I would first like to praise Paige Pinkston's column, "Implementation of alternative energy sources is what U.S. needs" (CT, Nov 14), for bringing attention to a critical issue.

Column: While Obama's victory gives hope, really challenges remain

November 14, 2008

I witnessed history last Tuesday; the first mostly black president of the United States -- since Barack Obama is, in fact, half Caucasian -- was elected by more than half of the people who voted in the election.

Column: Implementation of alternative energy sources is what US needs

November 14, 2008

The ever-growing popularization of the environmental agenda made the energy concerns of the United States a necessary centerpiece of the political platforms of all parties competing for the recent power shift.

Column: A fiscal conservative's thoughts on the Republican party

November 12, 2008

John McCain lost the presidential election last week, or more importantly Barack Obama ended up winning the battle for the White House.

Column: A taste of theocracy: The injustice of Proposition 8

November 12, 2008

Unless you spent election week in your fallout shelter and haven't yet braved the strange new surface world of a Democrat-controlled government, you know that Nov. 4 was a night of historic firsts.

Column: Reasoning behind NObama on CT's post-election coverage

November 12, 2008

By now everyone knows that Barack Obama is our new president-elect. And I think it's safe to say that everyone knew this before the CT hit campus on the morning of Nov. 5.

Column: Youth interest in politics means great things for country's future

November 5, 2008

The election results are in and a winner has been announced (hopefully).

Column: U.S. role as military power changed by 2008 election

November 5, 2008

With the 2008 presidential election comes the possibility of a change in the U.S. as a military power. There are a lot of people out there who wouldn't want to see the U.S. as a country with worldwide military capability at all, but in the evolving state