Archive | Columns
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Column: Universities must ease post-college transition
To whom it may concern: I regret to inform you the employment rates and salaries of recent graduates have dropped significantly in the past few years.
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Column: Universities lending to states a bad idea
State budget shortfalls seem to be a reoccurring theme across the U.S. However, though governors are forced to think of increasingly creative ways to plug ever-widening holes, they must also stay grounded in reality to avoid dreaming up ridiculous proposals like Missouri Gov.
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Column: No ID, no vote, no rights
In the Iowa primary, Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum in an outcome that may have seemed, to many observers, like a repeat of Florida’s Bush versus Gore standoff in the 2001 presidential race.
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Column: Gingrich’s judicial problem
Auxiliary Precautions – Gingrich v. Madison Upon witnessing Newt Gingrich's spike in the polls late last year, one hardly needed William F. Buckley's famed perspicacity to predict an eventual downfall. Mr. Gingrich is, by all accounts, a mess of political and moral contradictions.
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Column: President Obama is not worthy of the liberal vote
The continued admiration of President Barack Obama by liberals remains a baffling and somewhat frustrating topic to me. Despite being a continuation of the George Bush Presidency, President Obama has received far less criticism from the left than the Republican he succeeded in 2008.
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Column: Jobs, jobs, jobs
The United States is currently in the midst of a jobs crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. Many policy decisions made in Washington over the last three years have exacerbated this crisis by increasing overall economic uncertainty.
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Column: Why New Hampshire matters
Tuesday’s photo finish in Iowa cemented Rick Santorum’s emergence as the latest anti-Romney in the GOP race. Several candidates are now campaigning in New Hampshire, a tiny New England state with a contrarian streak.
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Column: Despite scorn from political parties, Occupy protests expose real hardships
What's the trouble with America? The answers to this question lies boldly in what defines the lives of ordinary Americans, what the new cool prefers to call the 99 percent. Commonplace answers, however, seem uncommon to American politicians — a number of whom belong in the high-tower 1 percent.
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Column: The truth about income inequality
Over the last three or four decades, income inequality has increased in most developed countries.