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• Obama Op-Ed On Gun Control

  

  President Obama announced the measures he would like to see enacted regarding gun control in a national speech last Wednesday. On that same day, he wrote an... Read more

  The 18 January 2013 by   Jobsanger
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• Notre Dame Star Linebacker Manti Te’o a Victim of “catfishing”

  

  By now most of you know that Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o was potentially duped into thinking his girlfriend Leenay Kekua (of which he had never met... Read more

  The 18 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• Do You Believe Manti Te'o?

  

  One story has dominated the American sports industry over the past 24 hours and it is one of the most bizarre stories that I have ever come across. Deadspin... Read more

  The 17 January 2013 by   Neilmonnery
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• French Intervention in Mali: Reading It from an African Perspective

  

  French military airplanesFor days Mali is experiencing a French military intervention to officially stop northern Islamists’ progress towards the capital –... Read more

  The 17 January 2013 by   Therisingcontinent
  

• Hurrah for Israel's Photoshop Law

  

  As of January 1, what the media has dubbed the “Photoshop Law” has gone into effect in Israel. This law mandates that models working in Israelhave to have a Bod... Read more

  The 17 January 2013 by   Starofdavida
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• Deep Things

  

  Religion concerns itself with the big issues. The biggest. As a child, I remember wondering how anyone could be concerned with less than the ultimate. Read more

  The 17 January 2013 by   Steveawiggins
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• Stacie Halas, a California Teacher Fired for Porn Past, Loses Appeal

  

  I read this Huffington Postarticle about a teacher who was fired because she had been in porn movies. Stacie Halas was fired because she had been in... Read more

  The 16 January 2013 by   Real Talk
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• Methodological Localism and Actor-centered Sociology

  

  I've advocated in earlier posts for two related ideas: the idea of actor-centered sociology and the idea of methodological localism. Read more

  The 16 January 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Rwandan Hutus: Marginalized Or Killed

  

  Victoire ngabire, leader of FDU-Inkingi political party returned to Rwanda on January 16th, 2010 from exile. The Rwandan president Paul imprisoned her since... Read more

  The 16 January 2013 by   Therisingcontinent
  

• Rock 'n' Roll? Meet Diplomacy!

  

  Unless you have really been paying attention for a very long time, you will have missed my various attempts to share examples of diplomatic themes appearing in... Read more

  The 16 January 2013 by   Charlescrawford
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