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GOP Presidential Candidates review, in Haiku

By Aaron Brooks | March 19, 2012

Mitt Romney   On cold snowy nights, your dad sat hungry sobbing. Romney got a raise.   Winter was pushed aside. The trees are just the right height, around Michigan.   A hot sweaty kiss. For everyone except the Mormon, no one wants Romney   On Halloween...

Helping students with their debt is an investment in our future

October 31, 2011

In this day and age, there are a lot fewer jobs that don't require a degree of some sort. Attending college has become commonplace. Even though students are leaving with a diploma, there are also a lot of students who are leaving with a lot of debt on...

Religion has no place in politics

By Parker Happ | September 12, 2011

At the Reagan Library Republican debates, Herman Cain outlined his plan to promote business in our stagnating markets. Cain argued that in order to get America back on track, government needs to eliminate the current tax code and institute a 9 percent...

Michele Bachmann tops her own ignorance

September 5, 2011

I need to make a correction. In one of my previous columns, "Michele Bachmann cannot solve America's gas crisis," I wrote that her promise to lower the price of gas to less than $2 per gallon was, "the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard from a candidate...