More than three months have passed since this column began to run. A lot has happened. SOPA failed. The 53 percent took Twitter by storm. Sandra Fluke asked the government to mandate that her college fund...

If a ballot initiative succeeds, Missourians will be able to decide whether to raise the cigarette tax in November. As residents of a state begging for more revenue, we support this initiative and a cigarette...

In the four years since Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, progressives have let all control of their ideology be smacked away from them. Progressives and Democrats...

Me: Hey, man, I had a pretty good time hanging out today. Awkward Steve: Hey, me too. Me: Yeah, well I see that my stop is coming up here on the left. Awkward Steve: Uh huh. Me: Gotta stop in to see my...

It's time to shut this column down. In fact, it's also time for me to retire my title of ‘Mizzou student,’ since, being a member of the class of 2012, I'm graduating in a week.  Has it really been...

The problem with political jokes is that they get elected. Nearly everyone has a cynical one-liner about politics laying around. Some fueled by humor, others by a distaste or disinterest for the political...

When it comes to music, I try to keep an open mind. I’m not one of those pretentious fans who discredits any and every song found on the radio or even a fan that sticks to one genre in particular. I...

I don’t know how many people make semester goals for themselves. This past fall, my goal for the year was to get involved in as many major-related organizations as possible to learn things related to...

Newt Gingrich has finally made the decision to back out of the GOP race. Though he has not officially dropped yet, he has made the announcement that he will be announcing his resignation on Wednesday....

Dear Editor, I lurked around the Students for Life exhibit last Tuesday for around 15 minutes. While I was there, I heard two female students talking. One was relating an incident that happened the day...

Missouri House Bill 2051, now commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, is a backward, discriminatory piece of legislation that is good for nothing but political pandering to a certain ideological agenda,...

Me: Hey, Steve the Squirrel. Steve the Squirrel: Hey, do you mind if I just get it on with this other squirrel right now? Me: Right here? Steve the Squirrel: Right here. Me: I don’t know, man. That...