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Column: Banning profanity will not refine America
Last week, the small town of Middleborough, Mass., population 23,000, decided it was fed up with its darned kids and their darned swearing ways.
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Column: Mandate is wrong, but health care bill should stay
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide Thursday whether the mandate which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance is constitutional. President Barack Obama has been under fire since the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, informally known as "Obamacare.
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Column: Hypocrisy of SB 1070 matches that of breaking the law
The saying goes, with every finger you point at another, there are always three pointing back at you. This hypocrisy seems to be especially relevant in today’s society, from the moment Gov.
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Column: Surface is a dangerous move for Microsoft
During a recent press conference, Microsoft announced the release of their first tablet product, the Surface. The move comes more than two years after Apple’s release of the iPad.
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Column: The complex web that is Syria’s civil war
Bashar al-Assad, the sick man of Syria, is deeply sickening himself to a tragic Waterloo. With this Middle Eastern country’s official resignation to a civil war — it is now all and sundry that Assad might be warming his way to what Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was too insane to avoid.
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Column: Addiction should not be redefined as disease
The term “addiction” is not unfamiliar to most people. Most commonly, the first thing that springs to mind is drug addiction: an addiction to cocaine, heroin, or alcohol. What about the obsessive streak of determination that strikes immediately after purchasing the newest video game?
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Column: White House heckling incident highlights a fundamental problem
Initially, I thought the hullabaloo over Neil Munro’s interruption of President Barack Obama’s remarks June 15 at the White House Rose Garden was overdone.
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Column: Obama’s immigration policy unconstitutional
Just like I want to find employment after college, I want all my fellow students to pursue their dream job, let alone not live in fear of being deported. The issue of immigration is a complicated one that deserves a thoughtful solution.
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Column: My money ran off with a good time!
After my first week in France I rifled through my luggage, turned all my pockets inside out, and in a last vain, stupidly hopeful effort, searched between the pages of my books. Where did all my money go? This was not robbery, at least in the expected sense.
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