The day started out as any other, nearly a year ago. It was May 1, 2011, my fraternity brothers and I were getting ready to sit down for our weekly chapter meeting when suddenly one brother chimed in and gave us a huge announcement we…
To slightly paraphrase Ned Stark from “Game of Thrones” — “Brace yourselves, election season is coming.” Yes, with pro-life senator Rick Santorum effectively “aborting” his presidential bid and Ron Paul wallowing away in obscurity, the Republican nomination process is all but finished. Now Republican governor Mitt…
I love sports. I enjoy watching the athletic plays, the hard-hitting tackles, the slam dunks and the big home runs year in and year out. For me, watching pro athletes go at it on the field, the court and the gridiron are among my favorite…
The conservatives have a lot of wars going on right now. The war on drugs, the war on religion (which I have mentioned in this column before) and the war on terrorism to name a few. Most of these wars are steeped in prejudice, ignorance…
This past weekend was one of my favorite holidays of the year — St. Patrick’s Day. Besides the ale drinking, the party raging and blasting Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys, St. Patrick’s Day reminds me of one important thing — I’m part Irish. Yes, the…
Senator Rick Santorum called it a “grievous moral wrong” for people of faith. Republican senator Orrin G. Hatch called it a “questionable policy,” accusing the Obama administration of “deferring to its feminist allies.” Newt Gingrich went as far as to say that this bill by…
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