If you listen carefully, you can hear the bellowing roar of laughter from our allies toward our president as we count 374 more days till he bids a fond farewell to the Oval Office and to the joy of the people (depending on who’s elected after him, anyway). Good times to dream on, good times.Why do we have to wait until then? Why, after the National Intelligence Estimate reported that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program, do we have to groan through sound bytes of the president saying that Iran may restart it again? Why can’t we do what many people nationwide have been thinking for years now? Why don’t we impeach George W. Bush?

Nov. 4, 2008 – As the 2008 presidential election nears its homestretch, it’d be helpful to see how one of the most invigorating presidential elections in recent memory came to be. How did Republican Ron Paul and Democrat Dennis Kucinich, both of whom only a year ago were no more than punch lines to the mainstream media, become the nominees of each of their respective parties? To see how we got here, let’s go back in time to January 2008 in Iowa.

If you’re having trouble deciding between overthrowing its sociopathic dictator (who holds little power in his country compared to the more powerful Mullahs) or to combat the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon (the completion of which is up for debate between United States intelligence and the United Nations), you have just stepped into a little déjà vu, ladies and gentlemen.

Is the notion of hypocrisy still evident even without the glowing glare of TV cameras and the hot air of TV pundits? An odd question to open a column with, I know. But it’s one that I bring up because of two lawyers who on paper have a lot of similarities, yet aren’t mentioned [...]

Although religion plays a part in most of our lives, and even to an extent in the lives of those who believe in atheism, who rebel against the conventions and beliefs established in organized religion, we still basically expect that our presidents and politicians in Congress will not throw their beliefs at us. Over the past couple of decades though, we’ve seen this definite line in the sand begin to blur.

As I look on at the growing tragedy that has engulfed the tiny town of Jena, Louis., this line from rapper Kanye West is the one that rings most true in my head: “Racism still alive, they just be concealin’ it.”

We’ve been taught in the countless numbers of American history classes that dissent is a truly patriotic endeavor, and it is. Without it, slavery, the civil rights movement, and the anti-war movement in Vietnam would be mere blurbs in the history books.

After putting the mainstream media on baited breath for the entire summer, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson announced he was joining the crowded Republican field fighting for the 2008 presidential nomination. For reasons I’ve yet to grasp, he’s put in the same breath as Ronald Reagan.

Another summer has come and gone. Back to the grind of textbooks and the yearly balance of sanity and maintaining a 3.0 GPA. You’d think this would be a time of rest for political geeks like me. But that’s not true, as the summer has provided the fall to come with intriguing developments and plotlines.