Jaye Estrada

Imagine that you are a Republican politician from the South, let’s say Kentucky. If you wanted to send a message to Washington about your...

While the weather in Southern California has been mainly cool, the national political climate has gotten hot. The unwritten rule in Congress is that an...

There has been much speculation about who Obama will pick to replace retiring Justice, John Paul Stevens. Many people are looking at the political...

I like CNN. I really do. If there were an award for the best network that delivers the news straight, CNN would win. Unfortunately,...

It’s sad when politicians run campaign ads saying they will do one thing, and then when in power they do something else. It’s only...

As Thanksgiving passes and Christmas nears, the spirit of giving should drain out all ears. Yeah, I’m not quite sure what that was supposed to mean, but what I do know is that we need money.

Have you ever thought about being the leader in a group? If you said yes, then you’re probably not Joe Lieberman. No, good old Joe is more like the guy in the group who says, “let’s put politics beside us and do what the other group is doing.” The only problem is that the other group is just playing Tetris on a calculator.

The very first article I ever wrote for the New University was about how Fox News purports crazy ideas and mistruths. I love when things come full circle.

At around this time two years ago, the presidential elections were underway. I was rooting for my candidate Hillary Clinton, as I thought she would be the easy shoo-in for the job. Well, we all know what happened — “yes, we can.” It was quite the interesting experience to follow the campaign through its longevity, even though it was only on TV.

One of the interesting things about America, or maybe society in general, is that pop culture can often spark meaningful debate about serious issues. Sometimes it’s a folk-rock star singing about the disillusionment of endless wars and at other times it’s Miss California USA saying, “…you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage,” but “in her country” it should just be opposite marriage.

It’s that time of the presidency again; it’s Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)-picking time. After Associate Justice David Souter decided that his stay on the Supreme Court would end in June, President Barack Obama is now left with the honorable task of picking a new justice to anger right-wing Kool-Aid drinkers.

While our president has been studying abroad over the last couple of weeks, there has not been a shortage of attacks from Republicans and conservatives. Their attacks have ranged from the dumb, such as Barack Obama no longer wanting America to be a superpower, to the hilarious, with Rush Limbaugh saying that the only reason the stock market is up is because Obama is overseas and can't "run" the economy from over there. Now I understand conservative angst and desperation. The Democrats were out of power for awhile in Congress and the executive branch, and they probably said and did some outrageous things while being in the minority. But throwing Boston Tea-Party-like tea parties? Come on.

As a great, wise man once said, "The first step to getting yourself out of a hole is to stop digging." I'm not quite sure who first said this, but I know it wasn't a Republican.

Exit stage right, enter stage left. Maybe, just maybe, President Barack Obama reads the New University or at the very least my articles. Just as I was about to write another disappointing review of Obama's hesitance to act boldly, he turns progressive on me.