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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Admits to Smoking Crack Cocaine While in Office
Peter Davidson II | November 7, 2013This is Rob Ford. He is the current mayor of Toronto, the largest city in Canada. He has been...
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AirBnB Locked in Battle with New York Attorney General
Anneliese Mahoney | November 6, 2013One of the big travel trends right now is a site called AirBnB.com. The company was founded in 2008,...
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Would You Rather: Law School or $1000?
Anneliese Mahoney | November 5, 2013I would like to go to law school sometime in the relatively near future. Whenever I tell current lawyers...
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Texas Abortion Battle to Reach Supreme Court
Anneliese Mahoney | November 4, 2013This June, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis took the nation by storm. Sporting her now-infamous pink running shoes, she...
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Memo to FDA: Kill the Pain, Not the Patient
Tanzoom Ahmed | November 3, 2013The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to curb the use of prescribed painkillers has quickly become a topic...
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Can You Heart Boobies in Public School?
Anneliese Mahoney | November 3, 2013Most people have seen the popular I <3 Boobies bracelets in recent years. They come in a variety of...
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NSA: A Repeat of Watergate
Vasudha Sadana | November 1, 2013Democrats are usually the ones to promote more government control, but President Nixon was a Republican. Though he achieved...
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Google Glasses: a Whole New Level of Distracted Driving
Anneliese Mahoney | October 31, 2013As technological advances make our lives easier, will our laws need to change to keep up with the times?...
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Orthodox Rabbi Accused of Using Violence to Obtain Religious Divorce Decrees
Peter Davidson II | October 30, 2013Today The New York Times wrote about a Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish rabbi who is accused of kidnapping estranged husbands...
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New York AG Investigating Racist Policies In Department Stores
Anneliese Mahoney | October 29, 2013Two classic New York City department stores—Barneys and Macy’s—are dealing with controversy regarding their racial profiling of any customer...
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Penn State Settles With Some of Jerry Sandusky’s Victims
Anneliese Mahoney | October 29, 2013On Monday, October 29, the horrifying case that has consumed Penn State University came closer to completion. In recent...
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Commonsense Etiquette or Blatant Sexism?
Anneliese Mahoney | October 28, 2013In the workplace, there are certain parameters of acceptable behavior that are common knowledge, and then it is up...
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“I Killed a Man” Driver Sentenced to Six and a Half Years
Peter Davidson II | October 28, 2013Matt Cordle created a stir on the internet when he posted a video to Youtube entitled “I Killed a...
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Iowa Permits Blind People to Obtain Gun Permits. Seriously.
Peter Davidson II | October 26, 2013Disclaimer: I am a very vocal advocate of stricter regulation of gun laws. That does not mean that I...
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“Cocaine Mom” Law’s Horrifying Effects
Anneliese Mahoney | October 25, 2013The state of Wisconsin has a law that has been dubbed the “cocaine mom” law. The idea, in theory,...
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Follow Your Friends…And Arms Dealers on Instagram
Anneliese Mahoney | October 25, 2013The popular picture-sharing social network Instagram has definitely cornered the market on sharing brunch memories and beach photos. But...
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Inaction is an Action: Saudi Arabia Declines UN Security Council Seat
Vasudha Sadana | October 25, 2013The U.N News Centre announced new members of the UN Security Council. Among the new members, Chad, Lithuania, Nigeria,...
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Teacher Killed by Student in Danvers MA
Anneliese Mahoney | October 24, 2013In a small outer suburb of Boston, MA, a town named Danvers is reeling after the discovery of a...
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New Charges For Former Blackwater Contractors
Anneliese Mahoney | October 24, 2013The DOJ has brought new charges against four former Blackwater Security contractors by the names of Dustin Heard, Evan...
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Everyone, Let’s Lay Off the Obamacare Online Marketplace?
Peter Davidson II | October 24, 2013On October 22, 2013, the New York Times ran an article describing the various problems that have accompanied the roll...
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Immigration: The Journey is Just Beginning…
Zachary Schneider | October 23, 2013Mass media essentially dropped it, yet it still affects millions of people around the word. The issue? You guessed...
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Privacy or the Internet: Choose One
Zachary Schneider | October 21, 2013The double standard of a generation. The ultimate oxymoron. Each year major companies including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Google,...
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The United Nations and Drones
Anneliese Mahoney | October 21, 2013Drones: depending on whom you ask, drones are either the military instruments of the future, or the machines that...
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High School Student Punished for Being a Good Friend
Anneliese Mahoney | October 18, 2013After a young woman in North Andover, Massachusetts named Erin Cox was punished for picking up an intoxicated friend...
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Old Friends Turned Foes: Harry Belafonte against the King Family
Anneliese Mahoney | October 17, 2013Harry Belafonte, now a well-known singer and song-writer, was a huge supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during...
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New Type of Warfare: Social Media vs. Government
Vasudha Sadana | October 17, 2013In a recent article, Three-month ban on Skype, Viber, and Whatsapp in Sindh Proposed published by Pakistan Today, Provincial...
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Wealth Disparity in the United States: Minimum Wage
Zachary Schneider | October 16, 2013The United States of America. Land of the free, home of the brave. Doesn’t that have a nice ring...
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The New Frontier of Privacy: Lavabit’s Encrypted Email No More
Anneliese Mahoney | October 15, 2013For most Americans, large chunks of our lives play out online. We have numerous social media sites, we check...
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Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action To Spar With A Conservative Court
Anneliese Mahoney | October 15, 2013This week, the Supreme Court is dealing with the second case to challenge affirmative action in two years—Schuette v....
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Shutdown Woes: Rethinking a Broken System
Zachary Schneider | October 15, 2013It should go without saying that shutting down the government is not a good idea. It’s not good for...