Part of my summer assignments to myself involved catching up on various television shows, made possible by actual free time and my parent’s premium channel subscription. I just finished catching up...

A fight on the Strip left two men hospitalized and resulted in two others being apprehended by University police. The apprehended suspects were not involved in the fight, but had fired handguns in the...

  The search for a new University of Alabama president created an opportunity for change that eluded the University under the leadership of Robert Witt. Even as the University grew and prospered in...

Americans like drama. We vicariously enjoy gossip, tension and conflict, and we’re prepared to pay for the access to these things. Look on the shelves of any convenience store, and you’ll see entire...

Since joining Congress in 2011, Florida Rep. Allen West has been a relentless, outspoken, notoriously loud – often-lauded – mouthpiece for the radical base of today’s Republican Party. West regularly...

At 17, I stood at a crossroads. After years of being “well-rounded,” the idea of majoring in one subject was new to me. I chose my major practically, settling on computer science, perhaps one of the...

As the nation watched and waited, years of research, debate and speculation came to a head last month when the Supreme Court finally issued a ruling on National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB)...

Two weeks ago Obama used his power of executive mandate to pass into law a series of reforms covering the subject of immigration. These reforms grant de facto amnesty to immigrants who meet a number of...

We all know the story. Yes, the one that has been happening since grade school, when school lets out, and suddenly, we turn into animals set free for summer vacation. Released from captivity, we survey...

Hope for true societal growth, economic prosperity and cultural progress seem to be goals long forgotten in Alabama, thwarted on a seemingly constant basis by hyper-partisan leaders with a levee on the...

Since the Iranian revolution, sometimes called the Islamic revolution, relations between the United States and Iran have been very uneasy as well as unsteady. The recent election in 2005 of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...