Cody Gault '11 explains why the recent controversy around the proposed Qur'an burning ceremony showed America is a positive light.

For America to heal it self-inflicted wounds, it must stop fighting and love the academy.

The once-noble Republican John McCain has turned rightward in recent days, tumbling into the open arms of Sarah Palin and her legions of followers.

In her blind opposition to President Barrack Obama's every decision, Sarah Palin is inciting a dangerous group of militant lunatics.

If you like your doctor and you like your plan, will you be able to keep them after the Apocalypse?

As if a century of Americans striving for reform and a full year of debating the particulars of Obama’s healthcare plan in Congress weren’t epic enough, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) claimed a day before the final House vote that the bill would destroy America and bring about “Armageddon.”

Only two things in life are guaranteed: taxes and Republicans complaining about taxes.

In an interview with Fox News regarding the Feb. 18 attack on an Internal Revenue Service office in Austin, Sen. Scott (“I drive a truck”) Brown remarked that “people are frustrated” with Washington.

“Nobody likes paying taxes, obviously,” said Brown, the newest face of Republican populism.

Let’s face it: appearances are important. Just ask Sarah Palin.

At the first Tea Party Conference last week in Nashville, the former Alaskan governor and beauty queen gave herself — and the Tea Party — a makeover.

First they legalize gay marriage. Then they elect a truck to the Senate. Last week, in what many conservative pundits have called “a clear message to Washington,” the voters of Massachusetts elected Scott Brown as their first Republican senator since 1972.

If the revolution will not be televised, it will probably stream on YouTube.

During his first official visit to China, President Barack Obama told an audience of students in Shanghai that he is a “strong supporter” of social media websites like Twitter.

“The more freely information flows,” the President explained, “the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable.”

Beauty queens have put world peace on the back burner. In an interview on MSNBC’s Today Show this week, former Miss California Carrie Prejean said that she has been “Palinized” by the media for voicing her opposition to gay marriage during the Miss USA pageant in April. (To be “Palinized,” she explains, is to be unfairly scrutinized because you are a conservative woman. This is not to be confused with “Palinated,” which is to be propelled to the forefront of conservative politics despite being incompetent because you are a former beauty queen.) Prejean’s assertion that “marriage should be between a man and a woman” certainly attracted heavy scrutiny from gay rights activists and left-wing commentators like Keith Olbermann.