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Though I do not recall where I saw the headline but running up to Selection Sunday, known as the commencement of the NCAA Tournament, one statement read “College Basketball: The One-Month Sport”. Is Selection Sunday the beginning of the tournament or has it become the beginning of the college basketball season? The college basketball season, according to its schedule, officially began in mid-November though it is doubtful that spectators and fans were rushing to their TVs to watch Duke demolish the Presbyterian team by nearly 70 points. Call me crazy but I am pretty sure most people could have called that win. In fact, throughout all of November, the Duke Blue Devils with their notable fanbase (the Cameron Crazies) only face one top-25 team. The same goes for the month of December. Over the same span of time, the University of Kentucky Wildcats only faced three teams that ended the season in the top-25. In fact, for Kentucky, it was not until Dec. 20 against the UCLA Bruins that t...

Now I am no expert on nuclear weapons nor am I an expert on fortune telling but there is a lot of conversation going on about Iran and their potential nuclear deal with the US-led P5+1. The basic idea of the plan is to freeze Iran in its progression toward nuclear goals in return for lighter sanctions. The US and its allies hope that this will have a long term, even permanent, effect in hoping that Iran will abandon its current designs. The confounding part is that with a permanent objective, the deal would expire in merely 10 years then allowing Iran to continue as it wishes after that. President Obama has defended the plan in stating that if the measures of the deal are followed, then the US and its allies would know about any nuclear weapon-building at least a year before completion providing ample time for preparation and retaliation. I admit that this does sound good for the most part. It would be my hope that Iran would see that it is unnecessary in our interconnected wo...

Democrats in the United States have been jumping on the Hilary Clinton bandwagon seemingly since Obama's re-election and have positioned her as the current front runner for the Democratic ticket for the 2016 Presidential elections. It seems that now the Republicans have found their candidate as well. In a speech to both houses of the US Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu aroused anthems of applause from the right side of the aisle as Republicans whooped and hollered in a way reminiscent of a State of the Union address. With dogmatic rhetoric, Netanyahu outlined the sins of Iran against the Jewish state and emphasized the "special relationship" Israel has with the United States. In first stating that the "enemy of your enemy is truly your enemy," a twist on a common cliche, Bibi employed verbal extremism in stating that the greatest fear of the world is the "marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons." It is interesting to note, however, that some th...