President George W. Bush's second term in office is coming to an end. He has lead our country through 9/11, Katrina and wars on two fronts: Afghanistan and Iraq. Through his leadership, he brought the American economy out of recession in 2003 and increased aid to Africa to unprecedented levels. However, America has been seriously failed by the Bush administration's flawed energy policies. It started when President Bush stuck his pitchfork into the Iowan soil and claimed ethanol is America's way out. Despite his well intentions of weaning America from Middle Eastern oil, diverting bushels of corn towards ethanol...

On July 4, 1776, we began our tryst with destiny. Our Founding Fathers gave us liberty and freedom from tyrannical rule. Men like Jefferson, Hancock, and Carroll sacrificed everything, committed high treason against King George III, all for the sake of “these truths” that we still hold to be self evident: that all men [and women] are created equal, and we are endowed by certain unalienable rights. The forty-eight men who signed the Declaration of Independence were guided by these eternal truths and became the bearers of light in a time of darkness. Our experiment with democracy is more than...