Last month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the plug on comprehensive climate change legislation, effectively killing any chance that a bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions will pass this year....

When cramming for an exam, sitting in a boring lecture, or weeping silently at my keyboard as words fail to form on my computer screen, I occasionally have a particular thought: why am I doing this? What...

Since late April, everyone from media networks, journalists, state governments, Congress and the White House have focused extensively on Arizona's controversial immigration reform bill. The law will go...

David Cameron, the British prime minister who flew to Washington, D.C. on a commercial flight last week for a meeting with President Obama, offers more lessons for our politics than can be analyzed in...

In just a few weeks, the UA family will return to Tuscaloosa to begin the 2010-2011 school year. This year the UA student body will once again be the largest in our beloved university’s history. The...

In "Inception," Christopher Nolan directs a mind-rattling blockbuster built around the concept of dreams and ideas. One of the movie's signature lines is delivered by the main character, played by Leonardo...

By Daniel Moore I hold a 1976 Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alabama. As an art student there, I was taught that artists have the same First Amendment rights as anyone else—freedom...

The Alabama Education Association (AEA), the state teacher’s union, is understandably giddy about Robert Bentley’s defeat of Bradley Byrne in the Republican primary runoff last week. They should proceed...

The Interstate Commerce Clause, located in Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution, states that Congress shall have power to “Regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several...

Early this spring, when the prospect of an Artur Davis v. Bradley Byrne gubernatorial race seemed like a real possibility, if not an inevitability, I was energized about the future of Alabama. For the...

           The most boring conversation starter is "how about this weather?" or other similar statements. I guess that makes sense when you think about it. What person, other than a meteorologist,...