This past Friday, I hung out with one of my buddies to eat pizza, talk politics and laugh at Sarah Palin. We went through our routine of taking up interesting political topics and eventually wound up discussing homosexuality.

When John Ashcroft became Attorney General of the United States in 2001, he announced the Department of Justice’s initiative against “public corruption.” However, evidence has developed that the Department of Justice has been the source, not the opponent, of this corruption. Specifically, a study has come out that demonstrates that the Bush Administration’s Justice Department, under both Ashcroft and Gonzales, committed political profiling on local Democrats. This is a violation of the individual’s freedom to speak and associate and cannot be allowed to stand.

I’ve always been tired of hearing about celebrities avoiding lawful punishment because of their Hollywood status.

As part of the recent conservative tea partying, the Values Voters Summit came to Washington to join the fun and festive protests against our government.

As you might have heard, Richard Nixon was a crook. He was behind one the largest scandals in our government’s history, but that isn’t the action that has had the most devastating impact on America. Richard Nixon is a crook because he brought us into a pointless, tremendously expensive and impossible war: keeping people from smoking pot.

Nuns love John F. Kennedy. My father used to say that anyone who uttered a word against the fallen president better be prepared to have a ruler smacked upside his face. Luckily, this is a Methodist campus, so that particular measured threat (yes, I do puns) isn’t much of an issue. I can safely criticize a ridiculous political move that solidified during Kennedy’s time and has continued for over forty years: the Cuban Embargo.

Our embargo on Cuba truly began during the Cold War when President Fidel Castro nationalized companies in that country and developed relations with those other Commies in Europe. Years went by, Russians figured out they would rather have blue jeans then secret police, and the Cold…

I have never been a fan of Rhode Island. It’s the runt of our country and last of the original colonies to accept the Constitution. Plus, I was rejected by Brown. Communists. Yet Rhode Island has one redeeming quality: legal private prostitution. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island decided that prostitution can be legal in the privacy of a home.