Leah Vukmir, U.S. Senate candidate (R)
• November 5, 2018
A 20-year-old college student in Iowa didn’t return home to her family after going on an evening run.
Mollie Tibbets was brutally stabbed to death. Her loving parents, unaware of their daughter’s...
April 5, 2016
Donald Trump’s TV makeup might paint him orange, but the warning flags I got from his Janesville rally were red.
It took his campaign five days to get Royal Purple Photo Editor Amber...
Royal Purple Staff Opinion
March 15, 2016
With St. Patty’s Day approaching, many students are searching their closets for last year’s shamrock t-shirt and matching leprechaun hat, but others aren’t...
March 8, 2016
For college students, the presidential campaign seems like a far-off land where a rich bigot and two career politicians are in a street brawl for the GOP nomination, and the two Democratic...
Feb. 23, 2016
I didn’t like this year’s Super Bowl halftime show because I don’t like pop music. And yes, I fully acknowledge the fact that I’m a pretentious hipster, and I prefer sad, boring...
Royal Purple Staff Opinion
Feb. 16, 2016
Last week, we celebrated Super Bowl 50 with the same ritualistic precision as any American holiday. Nachos were eaten, and those tiny, little cocktail weenies...
Jan. 26, 2016
Most kids in America grow up hearing they can be anything they want to be. This is a grand ideal, but I wonder if it’s truer in theory than in reality.
There are thousands of...
Dec. 8, 2015
How will the extremist Islamic State, plus gargantuan immigration, affect your next 40 years? Your children’s whole lives? Below, some thoughts on a situation insufficiently understood...
Oct. 20, 2015
Lately there has been an influx of reporting American’s frustration with income inequality and the widening of the income gap between the rich and the poor. I believe part of this inequality...
So candidate Dr. Carson opines that Islamic Sharia law is incompatible with our Constitution. And that a Muslim president would be problematic.
His opinion, but he might have expanded more on why.
True,...
Royal Purple Staff Opinion
A wave of revolutions swept across the Middle East and Northern Africa in 2011, earning the name the “Arab Spring” for future history books. While these uprisings were...
“A body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the president and vice president of the United States.”
This is the definition of the Electoral College on Dictionary.com....
