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Column: The new grand strategy?
This past Thursday, President Barack Obama announced a new strategy for our nation’s armed forces for the upcoming era of “austerity.” The president outlined a plan whereby the $489 billion in budget cuts over the next 10 years would be part of a larger strategy of reducing U.S.
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Column: Obama right in limiting Plan B availability to younger people
Plan B One-Step, more commonly known as the morning-after pill, unlike most medications covered by insurance and health care, is not necessary to live. Men and women choose to have sex, and Plan B is like an insurance plan in case they fail to use a condom.
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Column: Why fear elitist presidential candidates?
Last week in Iowa, Mitt Romney criticized President Obama as being out of touch with American people and compared him to Marie Antoinette, the French queen who responded to the starvation of the peasants with, "Let them eat cake.
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Column: Is the GOP dead?
Being a conservative isn't easy these days. It used to be that conservatives only had liberals and the occasional radical to argue with. Conservatives and liberals used to get a long a lot better as well.
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Column: No doubt about it, Romney is the nominee
In October, State of the Race declared Mitt Romney the heavy favorite to become the Republican 2012 candidate for president of the United States.
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Column: Bill aimed at ending internet piracy must be stopped
Although I am sure the last thing you want to read about on a cold winter day is the impending end of fun as we know it, bear with me today as I play the role of Debbie Downer.
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Column: Hold on, Holder – South Carolina’s Voter ID law is just
60 Minutes aired an interesting segment, “The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT,” recently. The report investigated how Sam Eshaghoff, a nineteen-year-old college student, was able to fraudulently take the SAT and ACT college admissions tests for high-school clients.
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Column: The case against optimism for North Korea
In his new year’s speech, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak claimed that the Korean peninsula was at a “turning point” and that there were “opportunities for change.
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Column: Justice for dead miners trumped by corporate influence
It appears that the Massey Energy Company may have gotten away with nearly 30 negligent homicides. April 5, 2011 29 miners lost their lives in a horrific explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, W.Va.