President Barack Obama has started a website called Attack Watch! Attack Watch is a wonderful tool that allows ANYONE to report a criticism of Barack Obama. The idea has become a laughing stock, just like many aspects of Obama’s presidency. As you know, we have offered no shortage of criticisms of Obama on this website. [...]

According to a report in the New York Times, the British government is seeking oral histories taken from individuals in Northern Ireland at the time of the war in the 1990s. While the participants believed that the oral histories they offered would be sealed until their deaths, the British government desires the records in connection [...]

Ray LaHood is back in the news as the Obama administration announces $2 billion in high speed rail spending. This time, the northeast corridor will get some dough from the “stimulus.” Maybe this will help though, since people actually ride the trains in the northeast corridor.

The Observer would like to congratulate BC Eagles’ left tackle Anthony Castonzo for being drafted by the Indianapolis Colts, 22nd overall.

The commencement speaker chosen to address this year’s seniors at BC is Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. LaHood was a seven-term Republican congressman from Illinois before Obama appointed him to his current post. I look forward to what LaHood will have to say. Maybe he will advocate building a high-speed rail in between Boston and [...]

In light of Congress’s recent repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy governing the United States Armed Forces, Boston College Law School is revising a statement explaining that it is required to allow military Judge Advocate General (JAG) recruiters on campus despite its concerns about the military’s supposed practice of discrimination on the basis [...]

The staff at The Observer would like to wish its readers a Merry Christmas! We look forward to publishing again next semester!

A satirical approach to a real problem Ever since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, American society has progressed even further on the racial front.  It has seen increased diversity in every walk of life: college campuses, churches, Wall Street, and even the White House.  But one influential and prosperous organization still lags [...]

TFP Student Action, a project of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, picked up the Observer’s story, BC Law Defends Abortion Link and has launched an e-protest to request the BC remove the link from their website. “Activity that deliberately claims innocent life and promotes the Culture of Death should [...]

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