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Grand Finale

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Alas, it is here: My final column at The Montage. In a few short weeks, I’ll have graduated and will begin the final steps into cementing my future at Webster University, which was kind enough to admit me, and the student paper there, The Journal, of which I will be sports editor next year.

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Going up in smoke

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Oh no. Another college student is going to talk about marijuana. You pick up this column and think, “Another 20something student who wants to legalize pot, just so he can smoke freely on his drive to class and stink like hell when we wanders confusedly into a McDonald’s.”

Crystal Ball Politics

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Why do we feel that we must have a stance on hot-button issues immediately? Why must you be in support of or opposition to health care legislation before it has even begun to work?

GOP to voters: Your lose is our gain

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The GOP has been using the frozen, unmoving Washington as a rationalization for its own impending ascent to power. The GOP successfully feeds off of democrats misfortune.

Revolution without Representation

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Mere days after Joseph Stack flew his single-engine plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, his daughter, Samantha Bell, went on Good Morning America to refer to her father as a hero, and his plane attack as “inappropriate.” While few have outright defended Mr.

My, what a lovely tea party!

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The National Tea Party Convention was held in Nashville, Tenn. this past week, when the moderates, centrists and independents of the country sighed a deep breath of frustration and disbelief.

Obama, O’Brian, Oy Vey!

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America has given up on Obama, hasn’t it? That’s the vibe everyone is getting, right? If the recent election in Massachusetts is any indication, he has failed us.

These days, everybody's a pundit

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This country is plagued with impatience. All are guilty, be it the multitasking teenager who can’t wait for that next text message, or the honking SUV at the drive thru, desperate for large fries and a coke.

Taking an Afghani-stance

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America won’t win in Afghanistan. No, this isn’t treason, or even dissent; it's fact. The recent announcement by President Obama to increase troops, and re-think our strategy is not necessarily a poor one. In fact, it is completely beside the point.