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Column: I’m not sorry
Four dead in Benghazi, the America embassy stormed in Cairo, and protests across the Islamic World. Those calling for a post-post-9/11 era will have to wait a little longer. Anonymous statements by U.S.
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Column: Testing teachers
Last Monday, 25,000 Chicago public school teachers went on strike to protest the educational reform agenda proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Column: Detroit – Obama’s economic blueprint for America
During his speech before the Democratic National Convention last week, Barack Obama offered a gem to rival his pledge from his 2008 campaign “moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.
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Column: Alarmism in the Middle East
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denounced President Barack Obama for failing to draw clear “red lines” around Iran’s nuclear program and rebuked the United States’ “moral right” to hold Israel back from independent military action.
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Column: Our personal American argument with oil resources
Oil is the energy that allows modern society to thrive. Unfortunately, it is non-renewable, meaning once it runs out, it’s gone. In 2010, Russia discovered a massive oil field in East Siberia. The deposit was said to hold at least 150 million metric tons of oil (around 1.
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Column: America can’t afford to live beyond its means
Friday’s job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are just another one of the many painful reminders of the recent economic collapse and ensuing recession. In the month of August, three times as many workers left the job market as found jobs.
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Column: Unpaid interns
In September of 2011, two unpaid interns for Fox Searchlight filed suit against the major filmmaking corporation for breaking labor laws concerning the work they did for the film Black Swan, which grossed over $300 million worldwide in 2010.
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Column: Americans should not neglect the Syrian conflict
“Never again!” is the cry heard around the world — two words that recall both the fight against anti-Semitism after the Holocaust and a struggle for equality that continues today.
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Column: Walt Disney screwed us all
Chivalry is dead, but it’s not gone forever. Usually this phrase comes from the mouth of nagging women. Speaking from the perspective of one such woman, I can attest to concluding that men don’t appreciate women enough.