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By Nicholas Riebel || Staff Writer Social conservatives have learned a great deal from Orwell: the right to irrational bigotry and discrimination is now “religious freedom” if you can justify it with…
Nicholas Riebel || Staff Writer Scary things seem to be happening. ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) once seemed poised to take over Iraq, Syria, and overrun the Middle…
By Nicholas Riebel || Staff Writer The current Mayor of Chicago is Rahm Emanuel, who is a former Democratic Congressman and Chief of Staff to President Obama. In the recent primary to…
By Nicholas Riebel II Staff Writer Many of the facts about what happened in Ferguson are uncertain, but one thing is clear: Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed…
By Nicholas Riebel, Staff Writer|| The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Even the Native Americans had to cross the Bering Strait and settle on this land. The…
By Nicholas Riebel, Staff Writer || This day and age is amazing and exceptional, in that it is absolutely the same as every other time throughout history. This is the paradox…
By Nicholas Riebel, Staff Writer || My worst fears about the 2014 midterms came true: the GOP took over the Senate, made gains in the House, and took more net governorships…
By Nicholas Riebel, Contributing Writer || During the time that this was being written, it appeared that the Scottish people had chosen to remain part of the United Kingdom. The referendum,…
By Nicholas Riebel, Contributing Writer || Governor Andrew Cuomo, who runs the state of New York, is not going to be president any time soon. Setting aside the fact that Hillary…
Nicholas Riebel, Staff Writer || We all know what the narrative has been on Obamacare. It’s a socialist nightmare, a political disaster for the Democrats, and the gift that keeps…
By Nicholas Riebel, Contributing Writer || So, we had an interesting Supreme Court decision on campaign finance this week. According to this illuminating article, the Supreme Court ruled that now “a single…
By Nicholas Riebel, Contributing Writer || The year of 2014 looks as if it’s going to be a bad for the Democrats: not as bad as 2010, but not much better.…
By Nicholas Riebel, contributing writer Let us start by acknowledging something that many Americans refuse to: there is only one major party in America that is both willing and ready…
BY NICHOLAS RIEBEL Contributing Writer There’s little question that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is running for president, like his father before him (former Texas Representative Ron Paul, if you didn’t…
By Nicholas Riebel ’17, Contributing Writer (nriebel@fandm.edu) Astonishingly, there are a few good Congressmen and Congresswomen serving in Washington D.C. Unfortunately, Republican Representative Joe Pitts is not among them. I…