The next presidential election is three years away, however as soon as one election ends the rumblings begin about the potential candidates for the next election. One person being discussed for a presidential bid in 2016 is Ben Carson. Currently, he is a professor of neurosurgery, plastic surgery, oncology and pediatrics and the director of pediatrics neurosurgery at Johns...
onday, the Supreme Court struck down a 2004 Arizona law that required documentation of citizenship in order to register to vote. This has prompted many individuals, even in the media, to triumphantly claim that the Supreme Court has invalidated voter identification laws at the state level. Not surprisingly, these individuals are incorrect. First, the 2004 Arizona law was...
If there was ever an incident where ambiguity blurred the distinction between heroism and treason, the case of Edward Snowden is it. As a former employee of the CIA and NSA, Snowden has made recent headlines for being responsible for one of the biggest intelligence leaks in our nation’s history. Now said to have gone underground in Hong Kong, the rogue spy fears the...
The other night, me and three other guys were searching Netflix for something to watch. Someone suggested “Pretty Little Liars,” with a following statement of “I don’t really like it, but it’s okay.” It was at that moment that four guys all realized we had a mutual obsession with “Pretty Little Liars,” and every single one of us admitted it was our favorite...
Sunday night I tuned in to watch the Miss USA pageant. One of the contestants graduated from my high school and went to Mississippi State, majoring in aerospace engineering. I held my breath waiting for our state to be called out, only to be disappointed when impossibly tall, impossibly thin contestants were named the top 15. As I scoffed, thinking, “Not everyone looks...
Civil war has now raged on in Syria for over two years, and it has become a forgone conclusion that more direct efforts by the western powers will be needed for damage control in the region. Hopes of guiding this horrific scene to a peaceful state with diplomatic resolve are more or less hopeless, leaving the United States and other key western nations to ponder riskier...
Isn’t it great when a politician makes some sort of gaffe and the public gets all worked up over it? Who doesn’t like when the media takes some words out of context, turns them on their head and then repeats them over and over until people are outraged and someone’s credibility is hurt? In a Washington Post Live event about education and reform last week, Governor...
A few weeks ago, I boarded an airplane for the first time in a number of years. Since I am not a frequent flyer, some things that jumped out at me that likely didn’t seem unusual to the more seasoned travelers around me. Last week, I flew home from a family vacation to make it back in time for summer school classes. Again I noticed a few things that shocked me. The first...
This anecdotal story is a bit dated and probably extremely difficult to fathom at the moment due to the intense heat we are currently facing. However, I shared the story with my uncle a few days ago, and he suggested that it was one I should share with the readers of The Daily Mississippian. Around the middle of December, around finals time, I remember sitting in the bus...
