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So there was a pretty big anti-war protest here at the U last week. Apparently there were around 200 people there which seems like a decent amount for noon in the middle of the week, but not when you consider there are nearly 30,000 undergrads here. Recently, I’ve discussed with a few people why there [...]
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Senator Barack Obama gained the endorsement of Minnesota junior Senator and Democratic superdelegate Amy Klobuchar this morning, highlighting the increased pressure that Obama supporters are putting to Senator Hillary Clinton to abandon her presidential campaign. Klobuchar said her decision reflected Obama’s “strong support in [Minnesota] and my own independent judgment about his abilities,” [...]
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Tonight on 60 Minutes they showed the story of Murat Kurnaz, a German citizen who spent five years in Guantanamo for doing absolutely nothing. He married an Islamic girl from Turkey and went to Pakistan to explore the Islamic faith. He was detained at a roadside checkpoint for looking suspicious; being a white amongst Islamic [...]
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Vermont Superdelegate and Obama supporter Senator Patrick Leahy suggested Saturday that Hillary Clinton ought to abandon her White House bid, saying she “has every right [but] not a good reason” to do so. Alluding to the unlikely odds that Clinton will beat Obama in the contest’s delegate count, he said continuing the contest when [...]
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Both Senators Clinton and Obama have stated their desire for party unity, most likely in response to polls stating that around 20% of Democrats would vote for John McCain if their preferred candidate didn’t win. Clinton was asked at a recent rally about the prospects of Democrats leaving and voting for McCain:
Please think through this [...]
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The New York Times has an interesting piece on the lack of newspaper reporters consistently following the presidential candidates on the road, and where the day-to-day news is coming from now.
As most people have heard, newspapers have been taking financial hits in the last few years, with concerns over readership in the era of the [...]
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Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman officially announced his reelection campaign to the U.S. Senate today in a campaign that will be closely watched as one of the most contested this election cycle. Coleman currently serves as the state’s senior Senator and was elected in 2002, just eleven days after his challenger, then incumbent Senator Paul [...]
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Continuing the trend of terrifying posts about the world’s glaciers disappearing, a massive part of Antarctica’s ice collapsed and disintegrated into the ocean. The 160 square miles of ice is roughly seven times the size of Manhattan and is part of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about 1,500 years old. The remaining part of [...]
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The Indiana primary is more important than it looks on paper. The Hoosier state will elect seventy two pledged delegates in its May 6 primary, totaling 187 delegates when combined with North Carolina’s delegates that are up for grabs the same day (nineteen more than Pennsylvania’s April 22nd primary will award). And while [...]
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NBC news reported tonight on a new academic program taking root in American universities: the sustainability major. Combining elements of architecture, engineering and urban planning, its curriculum prepares students to solve problems of scarce resources with environmentally-viable solutions. Here’s their primer on the subject; more content is available on msnbc.com’s video player.
And here’s [...]
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I just don’t think this is over yet, and I don’t think that it is smart for us to take a position that might disadvantage us in November. And also remember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged. You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They’re just like superdelegates.
Clinton: [...]
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Recently, Sen. Hillary Clinton, seen above being fired upon by snipers, has been telling reporters her horrific tale of coming under sniper fire while visiting Tuzla air base in Bosnia in 1996. The only problem is, that incident never actually happened. Actor Sinbad made the trip along with Sheryl Crow and has come out saying [...]
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