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It's Columbia 1968 — the antisemitic version.
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The upper-middle class, in the form of college students, threatens to withhold votes from Biden while also riling up millions of moderate voters with their protests of the war in the Gaza Strip.
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Lesser prosecutors would have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge.
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We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, mostly boys, to take their lives.
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April 26
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The Jewish people are part of our America and deserve our respect and our protection. We should not tolerate what is taking place on American campuses, and we should demand that the influencers who are teaching this new Marxist garbage be terminated.
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Let’s hope that others follow the lead of Columbia’s president and Google management, and we stop wet nursing kids who for too long have demonstrated their ignorance and in some cases denounced America while reaping its benefits.
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It’s reasonable to assume that in 2024, the number of churchgoing Republicans has declined even further. Significantly so. And thus, they matter less to the ever-expedient Donald Trump’s campaign for president.
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As much as O.J. absurdly talked about finding “the real killer,” a truly real killer is our own failure to take the complaints of domestic violence victims seriously — an issue on which we’ve made progress, but not enough.
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L.D. 2097 is a bill that would authorize and fund the hire of case aides — to lighten the load of caseworkers around the state by delivering documents, driving children to appointments, supervising kiddos in the office or hotels rooms overnight. When making the best of imperfect situations (in this case, an imperfect hiring situation), L.D. 2097 makes sense to me.
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The Jewish state has long been singled out for opprobrium and held to a standard different than that of other societies.
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Israel's missile defense victory was 50 years in the making. Recall Desert Storm's miss-then-hit Patriot shots against Saddam Hussein's SCUDs. Beginning with the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the U.S. and Israel developed "layered" air and space missile defenses.
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This should be the policy of the United States and other free countries, especially those that have been subjected to terrorist attacks. The goal must be removal of the ayatollahs ruling and ruining Iran, and to make sure free and fair elections are held to replace them.
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We now have the rechargeable battery technology to make EVs not only more practical, but more economical and an answer to many existential problems of our time, like the climate crisis and detrimental public health impacts surrounding air pollution.
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Christian Nationalists' desire to make us a “Christian nation” could make us look a lot like Russia. There may lie a path to the death of democracy.
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