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There is about a 50% chance that Donald Trump will win election again and, if he's not tried before November, he'll shut down the prosecutions of him. But the idea that a complicated case relying on novel use of federal statutes and involving a former president should, or could, be slammed through the courts like a case about an overdue parking ticket was always ridiculous.
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This is not directly about the issues animating the "pro-Palestinian" demonstrations at many colleges. Rather it's about the air of privilege filling the sails of hypocrisy on which many ride.
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Morality, good behavior and decency appear to be electives, not requirements, on too many of today’s university campuses whose “students” (and apparently not all are students) are now running the institutions of what might be called lower learning.
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I am certain that I lost consciousness, so, no way could I have called an ambulance.
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“Sleeping is a biological necessity. It’s sort of like breathing,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said during a hearing on the case. “You can say breathing is conduct, too, but presumably you would not think that it’s okay to criminalize breathing in public. And for a homeless person who has no place to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public.”
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Regulators are adding a new regulation to Title IX that “prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics in federally funded education programs …” said the Education Department fact sheet.
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Ukraine has certainly defeated Russia in the Battle of the Black Sea. Free Europe believes it can on land.
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We don't pretend here to have an answer for the homeless problem. Because the population is diverse, the answers must also be diverse. But one answer can't be to strip away the public's right to use the public spaces that ultimately belong to them.
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Major public works are important, no doubt. But what we gain shouldn’t obscure what we lose. The displaced communities — and people — aren’t just collateral damage.
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Self-made billionaire businessmen are typically characterized by ruthless ambition, narcissism, and an all-consuming will to dominate, and Gates is no exception
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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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It's Columbia 1968 — the antisemitic version.
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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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Richard Pickett: Biden must act in best interest of American people
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Peter Zanoni: ‘We need those babies’
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Audrey Murphy: Rep. Libby ‘is the real deal’
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Clem Bechard: Twisting the truth on Trump
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Paul Baribault: Trump’s negative statements on American servicepeople
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Tim McCloskey: Rep. Libby works to lower taxes for the wealthy
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Art Wing: ‘Rep. Libby understands the need to limit the government’
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Michael Boom: How should God’s chosen people be defined?
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Lawrence Small: Fining homeless people would be a bad idea
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William LaRochelle: Trump is ‘a clear and present danger to the whole free world’
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Susan Fesenmaier: ‘Let’s put our energy toward solutions, not lies’
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Ellen Field: Republicans vs. Democrats on handling the economy
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Norm Gellatly: Winning presidential candidate needs a conscience
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