“Was this the worst political convention is all of human history?” I was asked repeatedly during the Republican convention in Augusta.

In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel.

Almost four years ago, I was watching Sarah Palin rile up a Clearwater, Fla., crowd with anti-Obama broadsides when a spectator let loose a bloodcurdling cry of “kill him!”

It’s the academic final stretch. Students are now both preparing for final exams and looking for ways to pay for their education. One way to help students cope are scholarship funds.

Well, Tuesday’s voting nationally was both interesting and kind of fun, wasn’t it? Unless, of course, you are a liberal progressive, in which case the fun ended as soon as the results started rolling in.