President Bailey, Let me be among the first of many to formally welcome you home to The University of Alabama. We all share in the excitement and hype of a new chapter for our campus – yet another fresh...

Last week’s Republican National Convention accomplished two things for conservatives: it allowed them to throw a pep rally for the long-presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, and more importantly, served as...

By Tray Smith Senior Columnist Students have returned to a new year at The University of Alabama and, in many ways, a new campus. The Presidential Village off Jack Warner Parkway is now housing members...

As Hurricane Issac advances to the shores of Louisiana and Mississippi, another type of cyclone - this one political - has descended on Tampa, Fla. The 2012 Republican National Convention began on Tuesday...

I had planned to pick apart the dark side of American consumerism which I have lately experienced, however, as I wolfed down my Lucky Charms this morning, satisfied by the novelty of it all, I read something...

No one likes being told how to spend his or her money. Americans are an especially individualistic lot and this libertarian streak runs through most of us, regardless of whatever specific political sympathies...

I was raised in a Muslim family in Auburn. On Sunday mornings, my mother would wake my brother and me to Sunday school at the local Mosque right across from Auburn University. In every way, the religion...

By Claire Chretien Instead of condemning the gunman who attacked the Family Research Council, he attacked the group for its traditional, mainstream beliefs on marriage. Leftists are quick to label any...

By Brad Tipper Staff Columnist With Mitt Romney’s recent selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate, the former governor has given himself a boost in the eyes of conservatives across the nation and...

I had so many ideas of America before I arrived here. To me, it had almost become a caricature of itself – an untouchable one, at that. After endless stock portrayals in films, TV shows and literature,...

The No Child Left Behind Act was passed into law a decade ago based on a simple premise – that by 2014 no child should fall through the cracks of the U.S. education system. So, it required states to...

Vice President Joe Biden has a long and storied history of saying the wrong things. In the past, Biden has been called out for insensitive remarks on the avian flu, the vice presidency, Obama’s inauguration,...