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Opinion: Cohen, Manafort convictions not good for Republicans

On Aug. 21, President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen pled guilty to five counts of personal income tax evasion on over $4 million, one count of making false statements to a financial

August 27, 2018

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Opinion: Humane Society closure is for the right reasons

On Aug. 9, the Oxford Lafayette Humane Society announced it would not be renewing its management agreement with the city of Oxford and would be closing its doors officially on Sept. 30.

August 24, 2018

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Response: Opinion: In half-hearted defense of our new mascot

The Aug. 23 column by Will Hall titled, “On the mascot issue: Ole Miss jumped the Shark” struck me as worthy of rebuttal. Let me start with a disclaimer: Mascots are not

August 24, 2018

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Opinion: On the mascot issue: Ole Miss jumped the Shark

Two weeks ago, Ole Miss Athletics unveiled the official design for the university’s long-awaited new mascot, Landshark Tony. Upon Tony’s reveal, media outlets across Oxford feverishly rushed to the defense of the

August 23, 2018

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Opinion: The Controversial Conjugation

On Jan. 6 of last year, noted political commentator and podcaster Dave Rubin and his friend, economist Eric Weinstein, met in Rubin’s home studio. They discussed many of the then-popular theories about

August 22, 2018

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Opinion: Trump’s ‘trade war’ a blow for farmers, market economy

Referred to as “the biggest trade war in economic history,” the trade war between China and the United States is shaping up to be as real as the critics are fearing. President

July 12, 2018

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Opinion: Trump administration’s travel ban is legitimate, unbiased

Three executive orders, including two that were adjusted. Nine injunctions. Two United States Supreme Court cases. Those are the numbers behind the litigation of President Donald Trump’s travel bans. For review, the

July 6, 2018

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Opinion: Proposed “downtown” ordinance presents biased agenda

From my personal experiences living here for the past four years, Oxford is one of the safest towns in the state. There have been very few instances where I did not feel

June 28, 2018

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Opinion: US withdrawal from Human Rights Council a major setback to human rights commitment

The United States’ announcement to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council dismissing it as both a “cesspool of political bias” for its anti-Israel stance, and its failure to recognize human

June 20, 2018

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Opinion: Cartoonist Rob Rogers’ firing a blow to free press

The press is only as free as publishers and editors allow it to be. In the age of Trump, there has been a frightening trend of self-censorship from some news organizations and

June 17, 2018

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