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Jan 18 2024
Headline Roundup
New Hampshire Polls Paint Trump as Leader, Haley in Second
New polls out of New Hampshire paint former President Donald Trump as the leader, with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in second place.
Key Details: A Saint Anselm College poll shows that support for Nikki Haley has increased by 7% since the Iowa caucuses, and is now at 38%. Donald Trump is now at 52%, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 6%. A Suffolk University/NBC10 Boston/Boston
New York Post (News) The Guardian The HillJul 13 2020
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A New Understanding of Herd Immunity
The portion of the population that needs to get sick is not fixed. We can change it.
Edward Lorenz was just out of college when he was recruited into World War II. He was assigned to be a weather forecaster, despite having no experience in meteorology. What Lorenz knew was math.
So he started experimenting with differential equations, trying to make predictions based on patterns
Jan 22 2021
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Can Biden translate plea for unity from rhetoric to reality?
President Joe Biden emphasized unity at his inaugural address. But as he begins tackling the nation’s many crises, translating that ideal into action may be easier said than done.
“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal,” President Joe Biden implored from the Capitol steps Wednesday in his inaugural address.
It
Christian Science MonitorMay 13 2020
Top Argument
Should Fighting Be Allowed in Hockey?
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out," the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield once joked. [1] In the 2016-2017 National Hockey League (NHL) season, there were 372 fights out of 1,230 games – an average of 0.3 fights per game. [2] Fighting in hockey has been banned nearly everywhere outside of the NHL, including youth games, college play, and the Winter Olympics. [3][4
ProCon.orgMay 02 2024
Headline Roundup
Police Begin Clearing UCLA Pro-Palestine Encampment, Making Arrests
Police began dismantling the pro-Palestine encampment at the University of California in Los Angeles early Thursday morning and arresting defiant protesters.
The Details: Officers announced repeatedly over loudspeakers that protesters would be arrested if they didn't disperse. Around 2:30 a.m. local time, officers began entering the encampment, pulling down makeshift barricades, and
Los Angeles Times CalMatters Orange County RegisterOct 01 2019
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Harvard Defeats Suit Seeking to Bar Race-Conscious Admission
Harvard University defeated an anti-affirmative action group’s lawsuit to stop the school from using race as a factor in admissions, in a ruling that’s likely to be challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the nation’s oldest college doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans, as the suit claimed, and that its consideration of race as one
BloombergJul 06 2020
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U.S. Supreme Court restricts 'electors' in presidential contests
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to free “electors” in the complex Electoral College system that decides the U.S. presidency from state laws that use penalties to force them to support the candidate who prevails in the state’s popular vote.
The justices unanimously declined to endorse the discretionary power of electors just months before the Nov. 3 president election. The
ReutersJun 24 2019
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Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS.
The world, according to University of Washington professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, is awash in BS.
So begins their popular course, “Calling Bullshit,” which trains college students to identify and call out misinformation. BS warps voter choices. It can damage businesses. BS oozed from a crudely edited video that falsely suggested House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was
Washington PostSep 25 2019
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Some Believe It’s Better to Curb Free Speech on Campus Rather Than Risk ‘Triggering’ Students & Professors
America is the land of liberty. But to have a free people, you need to have free speech. And that’s threatened in some places these days, and it seems mostly on college campuses. New polling shows just how much these seats of higher education are stifling free speech. The so-called thought police can be so strident that students are simply afraid to utter opinion because they fear it
CBNJan 03 2020
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With A Month To Go Before Iowa And New Hampshire, Anything Can Happen
Democrats all want one thing: to beat Donald Trump.
The problem is, they can't agree on who's best to do that. With a month to go until the Iowa caucuses, there's a clear top-tier of four candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Ind.
And they are all appealing to
NPR (Online News)