Archive | Opinion
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Column: Delegate counting
In a Republican nominating contest that has been marked by fiery debate performances, Tuesday’s debate, the twentieth and final such event, underwhelmed.
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Column: Should your “number” have an impact on your life?
Quite foolish — isn’t it? — to think that age is the only number in our qualitative repertoires capable of disturbing our insecurities as women. As of late, the oh-so-sensitive numbers question regarding our sexual encounters has been tossed around. More so than it should be, quite frankly.
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Column: Social issues surface in the final Republican debate
Just as Rick Santorum surged into final Republican debate before Super Tuesday, the culture wars reignited; set alight by Obama’s Catholic contraceptives clash, Charles Murray’s book-length jeremiad about lower-class immorality, the Susan G. Komen foundation, and the word “transvaginal.
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Column: Healthcare law harms individual freedom, equality
Let the healthcare dispute begin. Last month President Obama announced that religious organizations would have to provide employees with health insurance policies that cover contraception at no charge.
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Column: General Motors’ record monthly profit is overblown
Last Thursday automaker General Motors posted its largest ever annual profit of $7.6 billion dollars in net income in 2011.
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Column: A $1.3 Trillion hole
Last week, President Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget to Congress. The budget is nothing more than posturing–it has no chance of being approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and would create a deficit of $1.3 trillion if enacted.
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Column: Sticks and carrots
On Feb. 23, North Korea and the United States will attempt to restart six-party talks to jumpstart the denuclearization of North Korea and the transfer of possible aid to the impoverished country.
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Editorial: Crime and punishment
“Has there ever been a case of a student committing murder for the sake of robbery?” asked G.Z. Yeliseyev, a critic who could not believe Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment.” The jury in the murder trial of George Huguely gave an answer last night, finding the former U.
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Editorial: When is a strip search OK in school? Never
Lots of boys dream of being Superman. But for one middle-schooler, the nickname brings only distress. His Superman underwear earned him the nickname the day he was strip-searched in front of three other students in the vice principal’s office of a Clayton County, Ga., middle school.