Congrats, Wildcats; you'll make us proud in Sweet 16

First of all, I think I speak for at least 16,000 fans when I say congratulations to the men's basketball team on their stunning performance this past weekend against Gonzaga. And secondly, being a descendent from that famous sooth seer of Arthurian lore, Merlin, I would like to tell you of the things I have seen as to what is to occur against Notre Dame in this Sweet 16 game. [Read article]

Why, if "patriotism" were the foul things it has been called in the last week, would anyone ever want to be a patriot? What can those who blamelessly sling mud mean when they charge that someone is acting "unpatriotically?"

In short: What makes someone a patriot?

Maybe it's simple love of one's country. To hear the way the word is used, however, that doesn't sound quite right. The citizen who professes love for our country's children, and pleads that they not be shipped off as cannon fodder, is called unpatriotic. The man who asks the country's leaders not to provoke attacks that could cost thousands more American lives is called unpatriotic. [Read article]

On the morning of Wednesday, March 19, at around 1 a.m. Arizona time, I boarded a bus, gas mask in hand, with 17 other overseas students at Tel Aviv University, and headed for the middle of nowhere, indefinitely.

We all knew before coming to Israel of the possibility of a war in Iraq, and as the war became imminent, we knew it was only a matter of time before we received the request from the university staff to leave the dormitories. [Read article]