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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: Students, Jane Lynch, Lindsay Lohan, Olympia J. Snowe, Chicago Tribune
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Maryland threatens the sanctity of divorce
American family values are under siege again, this time in Maryland. Two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience are at the mercy of the state's Court of Appeals. The decision of the seven-judge panel may corrupt one of...
Tags: Rudy Giuliani, Public Officials, Rick Santorum, Elections, Family
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Risking the Almighty's wrath?
Thanks for Steven Grossman's wise commentary on how Michelle Bachmann, Pat Robertson, John Hagee and Rush Limbaugh have all attributed the natural disasters we've recently experienced to an unhappy God bent on punishing us for even thinking about...Tags: Minority Groups, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Abortion, Osama bin Laden
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The absurdity, and scariness, of the Irene blame game
I enjoyed reading Steven Grossman's recent op-ed in which he cleverly pointed out the absurdity of anti-science, creationist-thinking public figures who have a propensity for blaming natural disasters on political enemies ("Hurricane Irene: an almighty...Tags: Minority Groups, Pat Robertson, Disasters, Natural Disasters, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Hurricane Irene: an almighty wind?
Michele Bachmann says that the earthquake and hurricane that have recently hit the East Coast of the United States were sent as some sort of divine warning message to politicians in Washington to curb government spending. I must respectfully disagree. I...Tags: Minority Groups, Rush Limbaugh, Abortion, Pat Robertson, Disasters
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Rehnquist dies at age 80
Sun National StaffChief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who joined the bench a generation ago as its often lone voice of conservative dissent and then steadily steered its turn to the right, died yesterday evening at his home in suburban Virginia. He was 80 and had been...Tags: Minority Groups, Abortion, Bill Frist, Armed Forces, Defense
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Terrorist attacks bring out the good, the bad and the ugly in all of us
"IT WAS THE best of times, it was the worst of times." Thus begins Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities. He could have been describing America since the horrible day of Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers and...Tags: Gerald Ford, Minority Groups, Pat Robertson, Radio One Inc., Fires
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Liberty's Gill energized by challenge
New Liberty University football coach Turner Gill already sees benefits in his position that didn’t exist at his three previous coaching jobs, including his alma mater, the University of Nebraska. “One thing that’s stood out to me in my...Tags: College Sports, Football, College Football, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Liberty University athletic director gets top award
Liberty University athletic director Jeff Barber has been selected as one of four FCS Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year award winners. Barber will receive the award Wednesday at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics in...
Tags: Weaponry, College Basketball, Football, College Sports, Stony Brook Seawolves
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Liberty University seeks move to college football's top division
Liberty University is seeking to compete at the Division I level for its football program. Chancellor and President Jerry Falwell Jr. said Saturday that the private Christian university has conducted a feasibility study to examine whether it can...
Tags: Research, College Sports, Football, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Football
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Mitt Romney delivers commencement speech at Liberty University
For the second time in as many days, our area has heard from a big-name commencement speaker. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered the graduation address at Liberty University on Saturday He was introduced by the school's chancellor,...
Tags: College Sports, Football, Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Elections
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Liberty prepares for jump to FBS level
Sports ReporterLiberty's football program joined the Big South in 2002 and has won four of the past five conference titles. But a commencement day declaration has the Flames ready for a milestone move. In front of thousands of graduates and onlookers Saturday,...Tags: College Sports, Football, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Football
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