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Editorial: ‘Finn’ censorship alters history
There are many words and phrases that tend to make us squirm or cringe, but that doesn't mean we can just remove them from the English language.
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Editorial: Tucson tragedy reminds us – Be kind
It's easy to forget, in today's 24-hour news cycle, where politicians are treated as celebrities or pundit punching bags, that public servants choose to put aside their personal lives to represent their communities, and they do so knowing that the job comes with a loss of both privacy and security.
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Editorial: For-profit or For-loss?
The evidence against for-profit colleges has been piling up for months, and it is disheartening that all the federal government has offered in response is pontification and paper.
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Editorial: Newest aimless Facebook trend
As you might have noticed, many of your Facebook friends became virtual cartoon characters as another Facebook campaign was launched at the end of last week. But just like most social networking campaigns, its rapid following and good intentions disguise its limited impact.
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Editorial: It’s not complicated. Tax or cut. Pick one.
When did spend and tax become just spend? Somewhere between Social Security and health care reform, Congressional leaders, fearing public backlash, continued to pass legislation in the name of social welfare, failing to account for appropriate funds.
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Editorial: Money problems in Washington
For the last fiscal year, the federal government faced a $1.3 trillion deficit that brings the total national debt to about $14 trillion. President Barack Obama and Congress know they must take serious steps to confronting America’s deficit spending and growing national debt.
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Editorial: Chavez must take major action to help
In what can only be described as a public relations stunt, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez recently invited 25 homeless families to move into the presidential palace in Caracas with him.
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Editorial: Plugging the leaks
Infamous Wikileaks founder Julian Assange struck yet another blow to federal intelligence on Saturday with the website's latest major release of classified documents.
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Editorial: Hands-on security
As students prepare to head home for Thanksgiving, the one-year anniversary of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane looms.