Our second issue of The Gothic Guardian has been distributed on West Campus, in Trent Building, and on East. Pick up a copy when the weather allows! Thanks again to everyone that contributed. Our theme for this issue was “America Back On Track,” highlighting our hope for a strong year in conservative politics. The issue is also available online here.

by Chloe Rockow

Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University, took his own life when pressure from cyberbullying overwhelmed him in September. Megan Meier, a teenager from Missouri, committed suicide after being cyberbullied by a friend’s mother through a fake MySpace account. Duke’s Karen Owen thought her satirical “senior thesis” would be safe in the inboxes of her friends.
Even Rui Dai, a sophomore at Duke University, was ridiculed when she wrote a Chronicle opinion article on the “Engineered Happiness” of Pratt students.
Technological advances like the Internet are usually viewed as …

by Matthew Leonard
President Obama and the Democrat majorities in Congress have amassed $3 trillion in deficit spending in just twenty-three months since taking the reins of Washington in 2008.[i]
The Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a nonprofit watch group, think the president’s fiscal strategy for the country spells doom, and they have unleashed a public awareness campaign to express their indignation.[ii] The 60 second message set 20 years into the future features a Communist Chinese professor lecturing an auditorium of college students on the history of failed civilizations.  In subtitled Mandarin, …

By Lingfeng Li
Watch out, Ben Bernanke.
Ron Paul, the 2008 Presidential candidate and Texas Congressman (and Duke Med grad), may become the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology on the House Financial Services Committee.  For Paul who has long advocated for the dissolution of the Federal Reserve, leading the committee responsible for overseeing the Fed, along with U.S. financial policies, represents a golden opportunity.

Here are three good questions concerning Ron Paul and the Fed for the next year:
Why does Ron Paul want to dissolve the Federal …

Here’s an interesting questionnaire from The New York Times.
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget