President Trump freezes accounts of national parks The Trump administration temporarily suspended social media, contracts and grants for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services during his first week in office. According to Reuters, each of these agency’s core responsibilities is to protect humans, animals and the […]
Read moreThrough nine seasons, “The Office” brought laughs and tears to viewers who watched it on NBC, but with Netflix, anyone can watch some of the best 20-minute episodes of all time. If you’ve never watched “The Office” before, let the rest of my column serve as inspiration to you — those “Office” jokes will finally make sense. “The Office” is […]
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Thousands gather in D.C. to be a voice for the unborn, stand against abortion As I was browsing through pictures of the Women’s March on Washington that took place Saturday, January 21, I noticed a poster with a bald eagle and an American flag saying, “I did not fight for this country so that my wife could be stripped […]
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President Trump voices concern that millions of ballots cast illegally in 2016 election In between signing executive orders and tweeting from both his personal Twitter account and that of the president of the United States, President Donald Trump desires to launch an investigation into voter fraud from the election. Throughout what was possibly the most controversial election in American […]
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It is safe to say that President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations have turned some heads and raised a number of concerns. However, this is hardly unexpected from the most controversial and unorthodox presidential candidate in history. Trump ran his campaign on the promise to end the overreach of federal bureaucracy and to “drain the swamp.” By appointing many candidates […]
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As if we didn’t already spend this entire election season questioning our sanity as a nation, it seems to be a common occurrence for controversy and Donald Trump to go hand-in-hand. Disregarding the past negative backlash about shady business deals and off-color remarks, now there are cabinet appointees to consider, question and critique. A few of Trump’s recent selections have […]
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Pro-life advocates support proposed legislation More than 56 million babies have been murdered in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade took effect in 1973, according to LifeNews.com. To put that in perspective, the amount of babies whose lives have been terminated due to abortion is about the same number of U.S. soldiers that have died in all of the […]
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Traffic survey available for students, seeks to locate congestion problems The Region 2000 Local Government Council (LGC) has launched a traffic survey for local residents to determine which areas in the Region 2000 area are the most congested. The traffic survey is a continuation of another similar poll conducted in 2013. The goal of both surveys is to gather […]
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Pvt. Manning will be released from prison in May 2017 During his last days in office, former President Obama commuted the sentence of Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, along with more than 200 other prisoners. While deployed in Iraq in 2009, Manning had access to classified information that she subsequently leaked to WikiLeaks in early 2010. In 2013, Manning was sentenced […]
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Sarah Said The millennial generation is practically synonymous with technology, social media and smart phones. Just walk in a mall or step foot on a college campus, and you’ll probably run into someone from Generation Y because their heads are down focused on their iPhones. However, evidence says millennials are not the most addicted to social media. It’s their parents. […]
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Trump’s order halts U.S. entry for seven countries, refugees Making good on one of his most scoffed at campaign promises, President Donald Trump imposed a ban on individuals entering the United States from Muslim countries in yet another executive order Saturday, Jan. 28. The United States of America, the land of the free and home of the brave — […]
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Personal account of Trump’s first speech as the President An ocean of people remained outside the National Mall during President Donald Trump’s inauguration. I was in the security line huddled under my raincoat eagerly listening to the events unfold on my cell phone. Fortunately, I made it inside the Mall in time to hear the last five minutes of his […]
Read moreAtheist billboards show up in Lynchburg If you drove on U.S. Route 460 during the month of December, you might have seen beautiful mountains, farms and even billboards encouraging people to skip church on Christmas. According to the website for American Atheists, the purpose of these billboards is to critique “the hypocrisy of all religions.” One billboard stated, “Make Christmas […]
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Girl uses racially motivated sympathy to raise funds Eighteen-year-old Allie Dowdle from Memphis, Tennessee has raised financial support from thousands of strangers within the span of six days to pay for college. Dowdle has accumulated more than $34,000 in that time frame, and the numbers continue to climb. Why such rapid and overall encouraging response? Dowdle is dating Michael. Michael […]
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Across all seven continents, people make their voices and opinions known I disagree with a lot of things — what some people consider humor, how people decide to just stop in the middle of a crowded walkway, the notion that sweet tea is actually good, etc. The list could go on … and on and on. Despite not agreeing with […]
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