The upcoming presidential election is leaving American with a choice between a flip-flopper and an environmental hazard for their president. This year a strong emphasis is also being put on the you to take a stance on politics. For first time voters here are a few questions to ask yourself before you pull the lever this fall.

Ask yourself "how will this election impact my life," are either of these candidates making any proposals to help you out? If their not going to help you why should you really care about them? After all what doesn't help you can only hurt you, so face it if you're not a democrat or a republican then you're a sadist.

Now that you're on the right track lets think is there any chance John Kerry will lose Massachusetts? This is his home, he is a democratic and this is a blue state. Young voters of America take a minute to size up your options, not only will you be throwing away your vote your also throwing away an afternoon of video games, Doritos and Comedy Central. George Bush won't win Massachusetts, but if you go out and vote you're the real loser.

Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, Republican there are so many choices and all you probably want to do is fit in right? Well the voting population is usually split pretty evenly on all issues, but less then half the country votes. If you want to be on the winning team then apathy is your best choice; you'll fit in, you won't have to change your lifestyle and you get the satisfaction of knowing you're part of the crowd. Forget about activism, peoples really don't care what you think anyway. Third party candidates they're a pipe dream. So when you're waking up late in the afternoon in November, be glad you didn't try because the harder you try the harder you can fall. Flip on the TV, microwave a burrito, let someone else worry about your problems and be proud to be on the winning team. Its the American way.

Apparently, Bill O'Reilly wants another war. He just loves these things. Oreilly, who is an outspoken advocate for both the war on terror, and the war on drugs, has been telling anyone who will listen that we are engulfed in a "culture war." What's next... a war on lowbrow reality television?

O'Reilly keeps telling viewers of his show "The O'Reilly Factor," and listeners to his radio program, "The Radio Factor," that we are losing this "culture war." He claims that he is disappointed that nobody has stepped up and become a leader in this cause. He wishes the President and others would join him in his tireless crusade to bash famous rap star Ludacris, and help to end, what in his view is, the demise of morals in the country. Here is an idea for Bill. Why doesn't he appoint himself as the leader of the traditionalists in this war against secularism, or Ludacris, or people that don't like Mel Gibson's new movie, or whoever the hell his targets happen to be? He has the audience, and the vigor. Bill, in the words of your adversary, Ludacris "Yo Boy tell me wot ya gonna do?"

While Mr. Orielly contends that leadership is what is most lacking in the side of the traditionalists, I will contend that the traditionalist movement in the "culture war" is lacking a whole lot more like a point. What is he trying to accomplish here? All we can gather from his statements is that Ludacris and other gansta rappers must be stopped, Christian documents, and peripherals should be allowed our courts, and our citizens, and that the ACLU needs to leave the boys scouts alone. Oh yeah, and that the sight of Janet Jackson's breast is an event of apocalyptic proportions. Are these really his hot button issues? What does he want to do? Infringe on the right to free speech by outlawing gansta rap? Eliminate the ACLU, and take yet another frightening steps towards the suppression of personal liberty? End the separation of church and state?

If these are in fact the goals of this "culture war", then lets get one thing straight. It is not a culture war. It is a group of the radical religious right, who want to impose their personal values on the rest of us, despite our Constitution.

There is no culture war. Only an agenda. An agenda to force traditional Christian values onto a public, which has every right to reject them. Culture is not something to be legislated, or force fed. This is not a theocracy, and Mr. Orielly, I hate to call you old-fashioned but. the world is changing, and well...you are old fashioned.

Not everyone goes to church on Sundays, enjoys bland family television and listens to morally sound music. Kids are changing, times are changing, and the notion that suppressing individual liberty in the name of traditional culture, is dated and unconstitutional.

Tuesday night O'Reilly and a guest actually compiled a list of the five worst rappers in the country. He bashed the likes of Eminem and Snoop Dogg, and served only to show how out of touch he is with reality. What O'Reilly needs to understand is that Ludacris and his peers are not the enemy, and the last thing we need is another war.

What we need is to remember that individual morality, and culture is just that...up to the individual. The idea that a war must ensue to impose the collective morals of Christian culture onto everyone else is both frightening, and, well. Ludicrous.