Archive | Columns
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Zero Dark Thirty and the torture controversy
Delivering on its promise as “the greatest manhunt in history,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty avoids being the type of sloppy action flick made by blockbuster sentimentalists like Spielberg, Cameron or Bay.
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Column: “There is a future” – Israel after the upset
Like most seasoned American disaffecteds, I was anything but excited about sitting through last year’s low-intensity Obama-Romney slugfest.
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Column: Higher-education bubble is preventable
As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon. The phrase “higher-education bubble” was first popularized by Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at U. Tennessee.
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Column: Waste no time banning automatic-style weapons
In the past year, close to 100 people died as the result of mass shootings. The sites of these killings included universities, high schools, movie theaters, malls, a Sikh temple, a soccer tournament and even a funeral home.
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Column: Take our guns — and our safety, too
Let me first begin by stating what a tragedy and devastation the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was. The fact that innocent and young lives were taken from this country will always be horrific and weigh heavily on Americans’ hearts.
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Column: Why focus on debt instead of economy?
Eventually, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq did much to increase the national debt. Diminished tax revenues caused by an economy in recession also did their part, as did bailouts for the banking and auto industries to prevent them from collapsing at the beginning of that same recession.
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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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Justin Timberlake is bringing Myspace back
A sentence that once seemed implausible has now become a reality: I just signed into Myspace with my Facebook account. For most people, Myspace is a distant memory of a prototypical social network that was basically a glorified blog with an obnoxious amount of customizability.
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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 ...