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Obama enters second term on historic note
Barack Obama took the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building Monday, beginning his second term as president of the United States before a sea of hundreds of thousands gathered at the National Mall. Obama placed his hand at 11:50 a.m.
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Obama sworn in for 2nd term
WASHINGTON D.C. – We the people. We the people, said President Barack Obama, more than ever, must work together as one nation, as one people. Evoking the Declaration of Independence, Obama called for the pursuit of the document's ideals through collective action and cooperation.
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Column: Proposed gun laws fight privacy rights more than gun rights
It is appropriate that President Obama’s call for an assault weapons ban and the announcement of 23 executive orders aimed to prevent gun crimes should shamelessly exploit children, because the rhetoric behind his actions is exceedingly infantile and does more to assault privacy rights ...
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Inauguration festivities begin in D.C.
More than 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln placed his hand on a small Bible and became the 16th president of the United States during a turbulent time in American history.
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Editorial: On gun control
There appears to be progress on the gun control front. Amidst increasing amounts of mass shootings across the nation, Congress is tiptoeing around the Second Amendment, which guarantees American individuals the right to bear arms. Wednesday, U.S.
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Column: The hype machine
During the holiday break, we all awoke to the terrible news coming out of Newtown, Conn. Our nation has endured a number of school shootings in the past — I can personally remember the Columbine shootings quite well — but the fact that an adult would take a gun into an elementary school and turn ...
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New fiscal cliff deal drops students’ paychecks
As 2012 came to a close, Congress created a deal to prevent the country from going over a “fiscal cliff.” After having 507 days to address the problem, the Senate agreed to a deal three hours before the deadline.
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Obama releases plan for gun law changes
President Barack Obama released his plan titled, "Now is the Time," to reduce gun violence and signed 23 executive actions toward the same goal in a speech on Wednesday. The plan focuses on four major points.
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Column: In fiscal cliff debate, what about the national debt?
Exceptionally absent from the debate that surrounded the so-called “fiscal cliff” in the past few months, was the issue of the national debt, which stands at an unfathomable $16.3 trillion.