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Articles in February 2010

Students Should Be Free to Bear Arms: Violent Campus Crime would be Abated with Student’s Right to Carry
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Students Should Be Free to Bear Arms: Violent Campus Crime would be Abated with Student’s Right to Carry

The Daily Californian’s front-page story on January 25 was on crime in and around the UC Berkeley campus. They report that since a peak in 2006, robberies around the “campus area” had been steadily declining, …

Christmas Day Terror Scare” Plans to Include Racial Profiling in Airport Security?
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Christmas Day Terror Scare” Plans to Include Racial Profiling in Airport Security?

On Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian Muslim man, by the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, failed to execute a terrorist bomb on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight. Just one month after his father warned …

Same-Sex Marriage Battle Continues in Federal Trial: Lawyers Scrutinize Constitution to Persuade Court to Favor Gay Marriage
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Same-Sex Marriage Battle Continues in Federal Trial: Lawyers Scrutinize Constitution to Persuade Court to Favor Gay Marriage

When California voters passed Proposition 8 in November 2008, it marked the beginning of a legal battle over same-sex marriage that could eventually make its way to the United States Supreme Court. Proposition 8, or …

Hope and Change in 2010
February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Hope and Change in 2010

Welcome to 2010, compatriots! We all had a wonderful holiday season and hope you did as well. As we return for the spring semester, we have a great spread of articles to share with you.

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