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This is my final column for The Daily Gamecock.
If you were particularly unfortunate, you might have seen the rabbit hole of lawyering that went on Thursday night on CNN, when President Trump's divorce lawyer, Jay Goldberg, said that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, would flip on him because of his fear of being raped by non-white men in prison. If you still watch Real Time with Bill Maher, you may have seen the smashing followup to Goldberg's statement: "He’s the one who famously said ‘I’d take a bullet for Donald Trump.’ Well, now that he’s looking at prison time, we’ll see if he’s willing to take a d---."
About half of the world will eventually experience or has already experienced the special hell that is menstruation. Despite the reach of the issue, there is startlingly little education on the subject — and startlingly little effort to accommodate this need. In my opinion, this stems from the fact that we're so uncomfortable talking about it that almost no productive debate ever occurs.
If you live or lived in Women's Quad, you may have called Sims College home. If not, you may have been there on business with the Student Success Center's satellite office, or perhaps the Central Campus Housing Office. Maybe, like me, you've never been inside the building at all.
When it comes to guns per capita, gun homicides, gun suicides and mass shootings, America outdoes every high-income country in the world multiple times over. We own the most guns and shoot the most people. And, as anyone who reads the news can attest, we fight about gun control often and at length. We’re familiar with Republicans and Democrats duking it out on the issue, despite having adopted their relative positions without any real mooring in their party ideology. With that in mind, the opinion section has decided to host a productive discussion on gun control that attempts to come to a reasonable, achievable conclusion rather than merely partisan bickering. Linden Atelsek, who feels negatively about the presence of guns in our society, and Dan Nelson, who feels positively about it, critically examined their own views and then discussed them together to create a resolution they could both agree to.
Congress is facing down a deadline this week: they must pass a budget resolution to prevent a government shutdown. The can has been kicked down the road several times now with stopgap measures, and they are preparing to perhaps do the same again. However, Congress will eventually have to pass a budget that they agree on.
In the first days of 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would no longer be holding back from prosecuting marijuana users and sellers in states where it had been legalized. Although it’s possible that this is just part of the current administration’s gleeful insistence on tearing down everything that ever happened under President Obama, it’s probably more likely that it’s just an extension of his weird personal vendetta against marijuana and the people who smoke it. (Remember how he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK, until he learned that they smoked marijuana?" We confirmed that guy.)
One of the most frequently heard complaints of the 2016 election cycle was that the news media was biased in one direction or the other. It’s not that that complaint is never true. There are certainly instances where a news organization publishes biased information under the guise of “reporting.” But often the gripe stems from one of two things: an inadequate understanding by the reader of what the difference is between news coverage and opinion writing, or an inadequate separation by the media outlet between those things.
After a shooting Tuesday morning that left five dead and ten injured — including the gunman’s wife, who he murdered before turning his weapon on the people outside his home — gun violence is in the news again. Not that it really had time to leave it after the Sutherland Springs church shooting. Fortunately, although Kevin Neal’s sister says he has struggled with mental illness, uninformed gun control activists have yet to turn on the mentally ill in this particular case — because they’ve been distracted by an alternate explanation, which has been in the news since the Texas shooting: domestic violence, mostly against women in this case.
This is a companion article to "Drug decriminalization puts public health ahead of politics" by Dan Nelson, which ran alongside it in the Oct. 23, 2017 issue of The Daily Gamecock.
The last time I wrote about how Republicans and Democrats are both failing mentally ill people, there was some objection to my point. Namely, that I was being unfair to Congressional Republicans by saying that they don’t care about mentally ill people.
President Trump's signing DACA's death warrant has exited the front pages after only about a week — not unusual in this administration, where the latest news item is always swept off the table almost immediately by the next scandal. After the initial frenzy of coverage, DREAMers have been relegated mostly to inspiring, often tear-jerking pieces.
Recently, yet another Democrat (this time, California's Rep. Zoe Lofgren) has called for Donald Trump to undergo a mental health exam to test his fitness for the presidency. In fact, she introduced a bill calling for Pence and Trump's cabinet to "quickly secure the services of medical and psychiatric professionals" in order to determine if presidential removal procedures can be implemented.
As an advocate of always voting for the best evil there is on the market, I never thought I would write in defense of litmus tests. But, as they do every week, the Democratic Party has been testing my patience. This week they announced their continuing financial support of anti-choice candidates. “There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates,” said Democratic Congressional Committee chair Ben Ray Lujan.
The first article I ever wrote for this paper was about the necessity of vaccines and the problems with the anti-vaccination movement. Sadly, although it has been two years since then, it’s still necessary to address the subject now and again, since the number of parents refusing to vaccinate their kids in this country is rising. Additionally, more parents who actually are vaccinating are turning to “alternative scheduling,” a practice that spreads out vaccination over a longer period of time than the traditional schedule does in an attempt to avoid “chemical overload.”
Most USC students probably don’t have a reason to know it, but we live in a city that has historically done almost everything possible to criminalize homelessness.