Election Day at the polls is usually a hectic one, and many voters chose to vote early to avoid the chaos. While campaigning peaks during the presidential debates, many states opened early voting before...
I was born into a conservative family with a racist uncle and a majority of closed-minded relatives, so I am relieved to have the parents I do.
My parents raised me to think for myself and challenge...
Barack Obama: My favorite secret Muslim.
Our president of the past four years has spent most of that time, like many politicians, being ridiculed by the opposing party.
Despite the Republican...
Today, I wasted my vote.
While most Americans traversed their polling stations with a clear intent to vote for either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, I had a different...
Local government is what really changes lives.
It’s become a bit of a cliché that’s repeated every election cycle, but it still rings true.
Though our conversations about politics...
Find a social issue, pump money into ads distorting facts about the issue, give your solution to the issue, scare voters. This is the political cake-mix recipe to unseat an incumbent.
During the recent...
As election results poured in on the evening of Nov. 6, 2008, Baton Rouge was alive with young people.
My roommates were lighting victory cigars and my neighbors were dancing in the parking lot. I was...
Hide your kids, hide your wife — Alabama is coming to town.
I get it. The Crimson Tide has the best defense, smartest coach and is currently the No. 1 team in all the land. They might as well steal...
When the clock hits all zeroes tomorrow night, you can bank on one thing.
An inordinate amount of praise or blame will be heaped on the broad shoulders of LSU junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger. Win,...
Hate is a strong word.
It’s one of those words we reserve for the truly great evils of this world. Evils like famine, war, pestilence or anything that has to do with the University of Alabama.
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’Bama is better, y’all.
The Alabama football team is more talented than the LSU football team. It’s shown it all season, and anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to themselves.
But...
So much of today’s headline news concerns the federal elections — not only the presidential race, but also the contests for Senate and House seats. And of course, those are important.
In...
