The Daily Toxin

As much as I hate to say that I agree with Hillary Clinton, she made a great point yesterday about why Obama has failed to close the deal after looking unstoppable barely over a month ago. He has finally been vetted like a normal politician, and it turns out he has dirt on him just like any other politician. But what really encourages me going into the general election is that he has been so completely unable to capitalize on his huge fundraising advantage. He outspent Clinton on ads by more than 2-1 in PA (and outspent her overall by about 3.5-1), but lost by 10 percentage points. He outspent her in Texas (I can’t even count how many Obama ads I saw over a three week span before the primary) and Ohio and lost there too. It’s a given that if he is still the nominee he’ll have a lot more money to spend than McCain. But given that Barack is throwing money around lately and losing and McCain got horribly outspent in the Republican primary and won, that fact just doesn’t worry me as much as it used to.

To excerpt from an AP story about a tragic attack in Australia:

“A group of teenagers armed with baseball bats and machetes attacked Australian teachers and students on Monday, injuring 18 people and forcing a high school in Sydney to be locked down, police said.
Five youths barged into the morning assembly at Merrylands High School in south-west Sydney, witnesses said, grabbing students before starting to smash windows at the school.”

The full story is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/wl_nm/australia_school_dc

Wait, I thought school violence happened because of guns. As we all know, things like this don’t happen in countries with gun control laws. Or maybe, just maybe, angry violent people commit crimes because… they are angry violent people

Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson of the Supreme Court of Texas will be on our campus Thursday, April 10 at 7pm in the Waggener Building Room 214.  He is being hosted by the College Republicans.  Jefferson is the first African American to serve as the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas.  He is also a graduate from UT Law.  It will be a great event so try to make it out!  Hopefully, the Daily Texan won’t slander him like they did John Cornyn as “advertisement for the event.” 

-Betsy Ross