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Daily Dose of the Post

My addiction to news about the 2016 election for President in the United States reached previously inexperienced levels for me, when a few months ago I did the unthinkable, I signed up for a paid subscription for the digital version of a newspaper. I've had magazine subscriptions before, The Nation, The Smithsonian, Mother Jones, Z Mag, even Guahan back in the day. But newspapers were always something that I either purchased regular physical copies of, or I simply read articles online if they had been reposted into paywall-free forms. This election was different in so many ways for me, primarily because of the type of candidate that Donald Trump represented, whereby he followed very few established conventions for candidates and seemed to relish in energizing some of the grossest aspects of the American present and past. One thing that struck me early on was not his willingness to attack the media, as every candidate claims that they are not being treated fai

The Scott Walker Campaign

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Gi Fino' Chamoru guaha ma sangan, "i linachi-mu siha mas muna'kapas hao." Este kumekeilekna na taya' perkefto taotao gi hilo' tano' ya humuyongna, i linachi-ta sina gof impottante gi taimanu ta na'lakabales hit komo taotao gi lina'la'. Lao gi i halacha na "news," kalang taya' esperansa para Si Scott Walker gi i Republican botasion para President gi otro sakkan. Hu taitaitai meggai put i linachi-na, lao ti annok taimanu ha fa'mamaolek gui' pat taimanu ha tulailaika i chalan-na put i nuebu na tiningo' yan kinemprende ni' nina'na'i gui' ni' linachi-na. *********************** When you're as bad at campaign as Scott Walker, you should just give up by Jeb Lund 9/3/15 The Guardian UK S cott Walker’s presidential campaign is only a little over 50 days old, and it’s increasingly obvious that Scott Walker sucks. Not for his record or what he believes , although both of those are – to bor

The Life and Death of an Adjunct

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Woman Who Taught At College For Decades Dies Making Reportedly Less Than $25,000 A Year The Huffington Post  |  By Tyler Kingkade Posted: 09/19/2013 4:05 pm EDT   |  Updated: 09/19/2013 6:10 pm EDT