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Thursday, July 17, 2025

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A letter of modest proposal

The pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy is truly silly. I have graduated from this school of thought into a much more sensible camp: pro-abortion. Abortion as birth control is a practice of the past; abortion as population control is what is needed for our society to function in the coming years.


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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Darts and Laurels

Welcome back, everyone. If you’re like us, you turned your brain off during the break and tried to forget about classes and grades. Now, everyone’s got to hit the ground running for the spring semester marathon. We’ve got some catching up to do in the remind-us-why-we-go-to-class-during-drop/add-again edition of... Darts & Laurels.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Bush’s openness helped popularity

According to a Gallup poll released Monday, 43 is now higher than 44. That is, former President George W. Bush is now more popular than current President Barack Obama with a 47 percent approval to 46 percent approval, respectively.


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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Dirty politics

In an early showing of dirty, rotten things to come during the next handful of years, Sen.-elect Marco Rubio and Gov.-elect Rick Scott were quick to criticize President Barack Obama for extending the ban on oil drilling in federal waters off Florida’s coast.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Year in review: U.S. has made a mess

This year started off in memorable fashion with the president’s State of the Union address, in which he notably criticized the Supreme Court and got a round of applause for disrespecting the judicial branch. The government fighting like children was a running theme of the year.


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