Members of the class of 2010 nationwide and here at the University applied to Teach For America in record numbers – more than 46,000 applicants for this fall’s class of 4,350 teacher corps members....

In short: The NCAA’s ruling that Alabama will vacate wins in football, track and men’s tennis is excessive and inconsistent. Alabama athletes stopped abusing their textbook scholarships in 2007. The...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will solve our country’s health care problems inasmuch as throwing money at problems solves problems. It is “historic” in the sense that it does more...

Nancy Pelosi stood on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Sunday night, prior to the looming passage of the president’s health care reform plan, and encouraged her colleagues to vote yes,...

The Constitution guarantees a number of rights. A manageable co-pay is not among them. Our health care system is flawed. The way to fix it, though, is not by mandating care for all. The best solution...

In short: While far from perfect, the recent health care reforms will improve a system that is currently beyond broken. In the pilot episode of Morgan Spurlock’s TV show “30 Days,” the man who brought...

Four columns in, I think it may be time to share the testimony of my faith and use it to explain how evangelizing does not always have to be a grueling task. I grew up going through the motions in a Catholic...

In addition to having 46 million people without health insurance, Examiner’s Ryan Witt says statistics from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that, by the time I’m 60 and my children are in their...

Did you know that Mercedes Benz is consistently ranked as one of the safest car makers? Although the automobile manufacturer has a reputation for luxurious, high-performance vehicles, their products are...

In short: The issue of legalizing bingo in Alabama should be decided by voters. In an editorial in Sunday’s Tuscaloosa News, state Sen. Roger Bedford, R-Russellville, proposed putting what he described...

If there’s one phrase I got sick of during this year’s SGA campaign, it was “perception is reality.” The problem with hating that phrase is that it’s too true to ignore. Perception really is...

Editor’s note: This is the second column in a two-part series. In the presence of a constitution that restricts local decision-making and centralizes power in Montgomery, Alabama’s citizens need to...