VP Pick Paul Ryan Shows GOP Still Firmly in NeoCon Control
By monkeyz_uncle Mitt Romney announced his Vice Presidential running mate and the country responded with a resounding ‘meh.’ Paul Ryan was a safe and somewhat obvious choice; coming from Wisconsin, a...
View ArticleAssange’s Ecuadorian Asylum, U.S. No Longer Human Rights Champion
By Abode of Chaos Hanson lookalike and albino activist Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, has taken refuge in Ecuador’s embassy from the United Kingdom, which has sworn...
View ArticleLiberty left out of Democratic Platform
The 2008 Democratic Platform promised, “We will restore our constitutional traditions, and recover our nation’s founding commitment to liberty under law.” It was a platform in direct reaction to the...
View ArticleGary Johnson fights Commission on Presidential debates for third party inclusion
The first presidential debates will be held at Denver University this Wednesday, bringing the final stretch of the race into the spotlight in Colorado. The narrative of this campaign has been long...
View ArticleAffirmative Action being ruled unconstitutional, my race won’t count against...
My latest column about Affirmative Action provoked quite the keyboard vigilante response: Wednesday, the constitutionality of the use of affirmative action will be debated in the U.S. Supreme Court....
View ArticleYes on 64, yes on 301, vote for Gary Johnson
My latest column, written in response to Gary Johnson’s visit to my city of Fort Collins this past Friday. To read the full column click here. The War on Drugs has failed. You know it. I know it. Most...
View ArticleResponse to the presidential debate: The winner? America’s global...
To read the full column published in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, click here. There was a clear winner in Monday’s debate. It wasn’t Romney. It wasn’t Obama. The winner of the debate is the...
View ArticleFISA in the Supreme Court: Can American citizens bring suit?
Read full column here. Is it unconstitutional for the government to spy on Americans without a warrant? Right now the government can intercept American citizens’ emails, cell phone conversations, text...
View ArticleBe the 5 percent that fixes the system: Vote Gary Johnson
Our political system is broken. America is increasingly a heightened police state in perpetual war, we’ll continue to borrow and spend money in a way that is completely unsustainable whether...
View ArticleProtect innocent Pakistani children from Obama’s drone war
Click here to read original column. A mother holds her child close in the morning, squeezing him tight and whispering “I love you” before watching anxiously as his grubby little face disappears down...
View ArticleSunshine Week: FOIA and the most transparent administration in history
This column originally appeared in The Rocky Mountain Collegian. Over a week ago, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to the Senate floor for almost 13 hours in a classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-type...
View ArticleThe American Panopticon: A rhetorical analysis of FISA, the NSA, and...
Prelude In May of 1999, Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to address the issue of spying by the National Security Agency inside the US. Barr’s...
View ArticleThe government shutdown hits home; a disabled veteran’s home
Chris Ott and her son, veteran John Thomas Doody, are Coloradans through and through, forced to move to Florida because of an inability to remain in Colorado due to the extent of his injuries. Every...
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