Column: Urgent U.S. action needed in Myanmar
Most Americans likely couldn’t tell you where Myanmar is on a map. To some, their only information on the country might be from a Top Gear special.
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Most Americans likely couldn’t tell you where Myanmar is on a map. To some, their only information on the country might be from a Top Gear special.
Flood week has started to become a regular occurrence at our university. Roughly the same time every year, South Carolina seems to face significant threats of flooding or, as in 2015, significant flooding itself. With the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration now predicting South Carolina to be in Hurricane Irma’s crosshairs, we may again be facing threats of devastating flooding. If anything, this should highlight just how important flood preparedness, particularly in infrastructure, can be.
During his campaign for president, as well as in his time as a private citizen, Donald Trump promised a swift end to the war in Afghanistan.
In his recent article on possible solutions to the current crisis on the Korean peninsula, Hayden Blakeney suggested that a first strike on North Korea would be a viable solution for dealing with the naked aggression of the Kim regime and its rapid expansion of its nuclear weapons program.
The Office of Student Conduct is a well known organization at our university. If you get caught drinking underage, messing with a fire alarm or doing anything else that violates the student code of conduct, these are the people who will hear and weigh in your case. If found guilty or responsible, they can approve a variety of sanctions against you, ranging from community service and fines to suspension and expulsion.
Few people sincerely enjoy paying taxes.
The NRA is not an organization I’m fond of. They are the antithesis of much of what I stand for. Yet, I own firearms. Isn’t the stereotypical gun owner a rabid supporter of the NRA? I’m sure you’ve seen it, especially here in the South. The shirts, the hats and, of course, the bumper stickers. “Don’t tread on me” paraphernalia and pickup truck gun racks. In many people’s minds, a gun owner is a conservative who spits NRA slogans like Bible verses on a Sunday.
Last Friday, CNN anchor John King referred to the popular Fox News morning show, Fox and Friends as “state TV” over their rather lackluster questioning of President Trump on why he chose to lie about having tapes of his and Comey’s conversations. King’s remark, while not totally serious, raises important questions regarding the journalistic independence of Fox News under the current administration.
Marijuana has been trumpeted by some as a risk-free miracle drug but demonized by Trump’s attorney general as “only slightly less awful” than opioids and heroin. Of course, like most things in life, the truth falls somewhere in between. What is clear, however, is that medical marijuana may be one of the best weapons in America’s arsenal against the opioid crisis. Trump and company repeatedly expressed their sympathy and willingness to action in combating the crisis on the campaign trail; yet, now that he’s in office, his administration’s lackluster approach is simply a hypocritical affront to the very communities he pledged to help. Unless the Trump administration changes its course on medical marijuana, Americans will continue to die in a fruitless moral crusade against legitimate solutions.
The developing world is a topic many Americans think they have all figured out. Their minds flip to Africa, or perhaps South East Asia. They think of conflict, poverty and starving kids. What they don’t see are the opportunities for the United States that exist within the developing world, opportunities that are critical to our national interests and security. If the United States is to take advantage of these opportunities, voters need a clearer idea of what the developing world is and what we can stand to gain by working with it.
Something is rotten in the Palmetto state. As it stands now, one of the largest scandals in the state’s history could have possibly been uncovered. The indictment of state senator John Courson for misuse of campaign funds revealed a vast web of potential corruption, all stemming from the political consulting firm Richard Quinn & Associates. This firm has connections to a long list of South Carolina politicians, from state senators to state house representatives and even to the governor. If this corruption extends beyond just Courson, the state could find multiple powerful figures in its government on trial. In light of this, voters need to seriously press their representatives to strengthen the ethics laws of the state.
As part of Sounding Board, a series where The Daily Gamecock's opinion section sends out a columnist on campus to talk to USC students about their views on hot-button issues, we interviewed 10 students to find out how they feel about alcohol use and misuse on campus and in the student body at large. USC leads the SEC in high-risk drinking behaviors, which are on the rise at USC. More than 22 percent of freshmen reported on an AlcoholEdu survey that they had engaged in behavior defined as "binge drinking" three or more times in the previous two weeks. In the six months between August 2016 and January 2017, 187 students were hospitalized for alcohol-related reasons.
Trump and his ideological backers, particularly the "alt-right," made a massive deal this year regarding the threat of “radical Islamic terrorism.” However, what they seem to be missing is the growing radicalization within their own ideologically charged ranks. Last week, a man named Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire inside a mosque in Quebec, killing six and wounding eight. Bissonnette's far-right views were no secret and included support for Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, as well as opposition to refugees and feminists. Of course, this is in no way asserting that the average Trump supporter or "alt-right"-er has anything to do with such appalling violence; rather, I believe that such incidents of hate, among many others, bring to light a disturbing trend of far-right radicalization within the U.S. and abroad.
If you’ve been following the news this past weekend, you probably heard the phrase “alternative facts.” If you’re curious about the exact meaning of such an odd phrase, I’m not the person to look toward — in fact, the only person who could probably tell you what it really means is Kellyanne Conway. However, I can tell you what this phrase and the controversy surrounding it mean in the context of the Trump administration, the free press and facts themselves.
Donald Trump responded this weekend to Representative John Lewis’ claims that Trump is an “illegitimate president” by bashing him and his district on Twitter. Trump, in his usual Twitter nonsense, claimed that Lewis was “all talk … no action or results” and that his district is “in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested).” Besides the appalling stupidity of bashing a former civil rights leader on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Trump very obviously doesn’t know Lewis’ district. We’ve seen this kind of talk from the president-elect before, where he highlights his ignorance on the realities of what life is like in America’s major metropolitan areas.
Last Friday, president-elect Donald Trump said in a telephone interview with the New York Times that financing a border wall with taxpayer money would allow the work to begin more quickly, but he insisted that Mexico "would ultimately reimburse the United States" for its construction. Not only does this statement spark concern that the massive cost of the wall ($5-10 billion by Trump’s estimate, $15-25 billion by actual experts) could fall on the American taxpayer, but it also raises questions regarding the president-elect’s ability to fulfill one of his central promises to the American public.
At 3:55 a.m. on Nov. 29, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” To label this tweet as yet another middle of the night rambling would miss the major constitutional conflicts Trump’s opinion runs into. In particular, Trump appears to have little understanding of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of both the First and Fourteenth amendments. For a man who claims that he “see[s] the Constitution as set in stone,” he knows terrifyingly little about it.
The House Oversight Committee and, specifically, the Select Committee on Benghazi have been particularly active this year, explicitly in relation to Hillary Clinton. They have gone after her record, her emails and her poll numbers. Despite allegations that they are simply operating as a partisan hit-squad, they argue that they are pushing for transparency, openness and the truth. While their track records and committee findings say otherwise, let us take their operating principles at face value. Assuming they are doing everything in their power to work by them, we need to demand the same effort put forward into investigating the next admiration.
I didn’t sleep election night, but I have to assume many people did. Most people must have been shocked by the election results when they awoke in the morning, as I certainly was watching it in real time. At the end of this election season, I would like nothing more than a cathartic breakdown, a cleanse of all the hate, angst and partisanship I’ve been harboring this year and a half.
Good morning, America. Election day is nearly upon us. The day many have been fearing, loathing, waiting to come and go, or a combination of the three. Hopefully, regardless of how you feel about the candidates or even the election in general, you go out and vote. Not just because you support — or hate — a particular candidate, vote for your vision of America.