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Trumpin’ Texas - Americans just love to hate things

It’s been a pretty good week for you if you like petitions.

Cross party lines, work together for a common goal

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s loss to President Barack Obama put the Republican Party at a crossroads on a national scale. During the 2012 campaign, the GOP struggled to remain intact and keep a unified message. While Romney attempted to keep the focus on the economy and jobs, the prevalence of controversial social issues on the national scene exposed weakness in his campaign and in the vision of the party.

Lessons from Florida election results

Despite President Obama’s re-election being officially projected just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, ballots were still being counted well after in Florida, where voters waited in lines well past midnight.

The day after the election with Obama

As I started to write this column on Election Day, polls were open and votes were coming in. By the time this is printed, very early Tuesday morning, we will most likely know who will be inaugurated in January as president of the United States.

Women and reproductive health: Ain’t nobody got time for that

If there’s two things I’m sick of hearing about, it’s Chris Brown’s continued existence and the women’s reproductive rights debate. Frankly, I’m just too busy to worry what goes on with my vagina, and I’m a little insulted that some politicians assume that women are obsessed with reproductive rights. If they even took two seconds to open an issue of Glamour, they’d know we care about a wide range of things, like Fall’s Nine Hottest Nail Polish Colors and Three Totally Chic Ways to Wear a Cape.

Meddlin’ Missouri: Why every state is important in this election

Rep. Todd Akin is still running for a Missouri Senate seat.

DNC exposes the ghosts of Romney past

Many Democrats looked forward to first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Her performance was a genuine yet expected testament to her husband’s character.

Charlie Crist among last of dying breed

In an op-ed published last Sunday in the Tampa Bay Times, Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, sang President Barack Obama’s praises and endorsed him for re-election this year against Mitt Romney.

Republican Party’s budget proposal to reduce deficit is ‘laughable’

President Obama is right to claim that the Republican Party has been “radical” and “extremist” in its approach to deficit reduction. I welcome his refreshingly blunt rhetoric.

Politicians’ attacks on higher education need to stop

This month, Mitt Romney continued the disturbing and growing trend of attacking higher education when he said that President Barack Obama “spent too much time at Harvard.”

Rick Santorum pulls out of Republican presidential candidate race

Rick Santorum withdrew from the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday afternoon.

Women should fight legislation trying to control health care rights

According to some political pundits, there’s a war going on in the United States. This war doesn’t involve bombs. It involves legislation, and the war isn’t on a foreign nation — it’s on women’s health care rights.

Lack of focus: Media obsessed with non-issues in GOP race

Last night, the plurality of Florida Republican voters decided that Mitt Romney should be the nominee for the GOP.

Rat race: All presidential candidates flawed

From the top two candidates in the Republican race, it appears that GOP voters are looking for a few key things. They want a candidate who supports increased military interventionism, an expansion of the surveillance state, social conservative values and an individual health care mandate.

What Newt Gingrich's flaws can teach philosophers about their own

On Dec. 25, GOP nominee Newt Gingrich unveiled his plan for reversing America's spiral into irrelevancy. "By the end of my second term," he said, among an unsettling flood of laughter and cheers, "we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American." 

Rudy Giuliani discusses principles of leadership

As former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani began his Thursday presentation on leadership, one audience member wanted to change the subject.

GOP presidential race drop-add month

Darts & laurels

If you haven't noticed, it's Hollywood awards show season, and the stars are coming out.

Republicans may widen class divide by only working for wealthy

Only a couple weeks in, the Republican presidential primaries have already given us all we've come to expect from the GOP: baseless attacks and conservative talking points. After the New Hampshire primary, the leading Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, called Obama's incumbency a "failed presidency" and claimed Obama is trying to "put free enterprise on trial."

Romney's conservatism questionable

How is it that an individual such as Mitt Romney could not have had better luck as a presidential candidate and still struggle? In spite of multiple candidates reaching the apex of ratings and popularity, only Romney has endured and somehow stood above the fray. Despite this, he faces distrust among conservative Republicans for his mixed record on a number of issues that define a party changed by Ronald Reagan.