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Column: Doing no evil
This past winter, hundreds of thousands of people banded together to strike down the Stop Online Piracy Act before it became law.
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Column: Beware of hidden ‘income’ when filing educational expenses
Tax time came as usual this spring. I am aware of the federal income tax and the basics of how the tax structure operates — you make “x” amount of money, you pay “a” amount to the government; you make “y” amount of money, you pay “b,” and so on.
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Column: Long-term welfare reform
From the Super Committee to the Simpson-Bowles Commission, it seems like every bipartisan effort to avoid a looming debt crisis has ended up in the garbage can.
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Column: Do not give up on Obamacare
Presidential campaigns are not unlike the arena competitions of Suzanne Collins’ novel “The Hunger Games,” in which children must fight each other to the death and survive by any means necessary. It is a world in which the one who survives the longest is crowned the winner.
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Column: Redefining diplomacy
Hillary Clinton has been an outstanding secretary of state. During her tenure, Clinton has enjoyed high approval ratings nationally and has been welcomed with general acclaim by the international community. She has been innovative in guiding the trajectory of the U.S.
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Column: Facebook’s $1B Instagram purchase instantly disliked
In yet another act of wistful money wasting, Facebook announced it would purchased the image-sharing application Instagram for a whopping $1 billion Monday. Let me share my overwhelming enthusiasm. Cough.
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Column: The discretionary illusion
Many people seem to assume that placing intelligent people in positions of power and then granting these individuals broad discretionary powers to do as they see fit is the best way to go about solving the world’s many problems. However, this idea is often an illusion.
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Column: When pepper spray is the face of education
Last week, students protesting fee hikes at Santa Monica College were pepper sprayed by members of the college’s police force as they attempted to enter a Board of Trustees meeting.
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Column: Anonymous gay sex a symptom of greater problem
Porn star and writer Conner Habib caused a stir on the Internet last week when Salon published his article “Rest Stop Confidential,” a part-exposé and part-confessional about the hidden culture of men who cruise for sex with other men at our nation’s highway rest stops.
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