Virginia Right!

No, Butler University is not moving to the River City.  But this report in the Indianapolis Star (and this one in our own Times-Dispatch) indicates that there is serious talks for Butler Bulldogs to replace Temple in the Atlantic 10: ESPN.com, without identifying sources, reported Monday that Butler has expressed interest in replacing Temple in [...]

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I wrote several weeks ago that Butler might end up in the Big east basketball conference.  Turns out I might be right, according to that little ol’ sports news agency ESPN: Of course, it would mean opening up another round of conference raiding. Xavier, Dayton and Butler would be at the tops of the wish [...]

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Did I go back in the WABAC machine?  Where’s Peabody and Mr. Sherman to help me? I was in college at Wright State and I debated the student government chairman on the ERA in 1978 or 1979!  I quoted good people like Prof. Freund and Eagle Forum to show the ERA would cause women to [...]

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National Review did not have too much nice to say about Cong. Ron Paul in the 2007-08 primary season.  i was very upset at the increasingly neo-con tone of my old tome I would go and read in the Wright State library when I got the chance!   (I read Human Events, too!)  But this from [...]

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It was great – Horizon League champ Butler just slugged their way to the Final Four again.  No coach has ever taken a mid-major team to the Final Four two years in a row – until Brad Stevens did it!*  No they should not beat Kansas/VCU winner but they ought not have defeated Pitt or [...]

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Young Americans for Freedom, the conservative student organization organized at the Sharon, CT home of conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr., has decided to remove Cong. Ron Paul off its advisory board, Politico reports: The Young Americans for Freedom has voted the Texas congressman off its national advisory board in the aftermath of his straw [...]

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