Jay Wood

Have you ever considered something to be impossible, and then it happened? It was ‘impossible’ for man to achieve flight. Then came the Wright Brothers. It was ‘impossible’ to beat the Soviets at hockey. Then came the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. It was ‘impossible’ for two friends or family members to video chat with each other. Then came Skype and other software. It was ‘impossible’ to elect a Republican to the U.S. Senate seat held for decades by Massachusetts liberal Ted Kennedy. Then came Scott Brown. Read More »

The 2009 Purdue football season was an intense emotional rollercoaster. Uncertainty was a prevalent theme throughout the year. Before the season started, there were many questions to be answered. Will Danny Hope continue to run Tiller’s West Coast offense out of the spread? How will inexperienced quarterback Joey Elliott perform? Which running back will get the lion’s share of the carries? Will Ryan Kerrigan really be the next great defensive end in Purdue’s proud history at that position? Read More »

On October 9th, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that President Barack Obama was the selection for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination process ended February 1st, just 12 days after the inauguration. Obama’s selection for the award came as a tremendous shock to many people. According to the Nobel Committee, Obama was chosen “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Read More »

“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” That is what University of Illinois at Chicago education professor Bill Ayers, a self proclaimed communist, had to say on September 11th, 2001 when he was questioned about his own acts of terrorism some 30 years prior. Bill Ayers helped lead a radical domestic terror group, the Weather Underground Organization, which was active (in at least some capacity) from 1969 to 1981. Read More »