With a recent sweep in the Potomac primaries, Sen. John McCain is moving closer to securing the nomination for the Republican Party. In sweeping Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., McCain dealt a huge blow to former Gov. Mike Huckabee, his last major opponent for the nomination.
Americans have little to cheer about or believe in these days. The list of reasons to have lost faith in our republic is inordinately long and spectacularly depressing. Whether it's the incomprehensible incompetence of the government's response to Katrina, contentious elections rendering dubious results, complete disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, the denigration of the environment, the use of torture on "enemy combatants" (whatever that means), the exponential increase of wealth disparity, steroids in baseball, "Spygate" in football or the quicksand quagmire that is Iraq - the American people have good reason to be despondent.
Has an authority figure ever forced you to try something you were almost positive you couldn't do?
We did it!
I have discouraging news.
He said to take a deep breath.
The Gator Party is proud to offer UF an executive ticket and a spring Senate slate that is not only qualified but diverse and talented.
Student Government doesn't matter.
With increasing frequency, I am beset by excruciating reminders of the world's inexorable descent into pure insanity.
You know, I seriously doubt I have the self-control to save for my retirement. Can everyone's taxes be raised a tiny bit so the government can save my money for me?
For the past few years, newspapers have tinkered with their Web sites, trying new ways to get readers information quickly and to get them involved.
I thought this would be the easiest column I'd ever have to write.
Another week, and another new low for President Bush.
They're tryin' to make me go to rehab.
I don't know if I ever told you, but I went to Harvard. It's true.
Dear Facebook,
The saying goes, "you are what you eat." Well if that's the case, everyone should be having an identity crisis.
Shakespeare once wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Truly it is the substance of the rose - not the name given - that makes it the beautiful flower it is. But what if we took the opposite approach? Would calling a dandelion a rose make it smell sweet? Of course not. There is much in a name.
On Friday, Florida4Marriage.org submitted the last few thousand signatures required to get a proposed state amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey still isn't sure if the interrogation practice known as waterboarding - where an individual is strapped down with a rag placed over the nose and mouth while water is poured over the rag to simulate drowning - constitutes torture. That is, unless he were to be subjected to it.
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