I sit in class Monday through Thursday and always see at least one student texting during a lecture. While the instructor is talking, I can hear click, click, click, click, click and click. I have even...

Fellow students, our message to Washington was clear on Tuesday: We’re tired of the status quo. We’re tired of the spending, the out-of-control leaders who couldn’t even pass a budget, the partisanship,...

In 1992, independent candidate Ross Perot captured 19 percent of the presidential vote from people who otherwise would have likely voted Republican and enabled Bill Clinton to trip into the presidency....

Here’s a fact I bet you didn’t know about America: its sitting president is a broken record. Sure, most of the country grooved to the timeless classic “Change and Hope,” and who can forget the...

This letter will likely be my only contribution to the opinion page creation-evolution debate. I am writing not to persuade the reader to one side or the other, but simply to rebut some of the more outlandish...

Ah, how refreshing it is to hear someone admit, even if only implicitly, that modern ethics came from religious morality. Of course, I am referring to Sam Arnold’s recent response to Michael Patrick’s...

“I was at the University during that summer and admired her very much. I knew that what she was doing took tremendous courage; however, to be a white student on campus at that time also took courage....

“I have a message, a message from the people of Kentucky… we have come to take our government back.” Those were the first words of Senator-elect Rand Paul, after he thanked his family, in his Tuesday...

I was watching TV the other day when a commercial discussing a recently released asthma medication lit up the screen. It showed a wide-open field with people basking in the glow of a radiant sun, enjoying...

It was unavoidable. You’ve been at the University of Alabama for almost three months now and it’s clear that not only is the student newspaper totally inept, but for some reason everyone around you...

If you can find me a normal person on a reality television show, I’ll find you some beachfront property in Kansas. Contestants or participants on these shows were selected because they fill their particular...

Ah, stereotypes. Everyone uses them; they shape our first impressions, social behavior research projects, marketing, movie genres, you name it. Stereotypes can be useful, since they exist because they...