| At graduation time, even the speeches can sound political Posted: 05 Jun 2019 02:15 PM PDT ![At graduation time, even the speeches can sound political]( "At graduation time, even the speeches can sound political") Campus Reform, a right-wing website that tracks commencement speakers for political bias, found that at the 50 largest public and private four-year colleges, 15 speakers were liberal and 11 conservative, while 24 were non-political. Of course, most speeches, even from politicians, tend to consist largely of urging graduates not to be afraid to fail, or reminding them of the importance of having a goal larger than themselves. President Donald Trump told Air Force cadets in Colorado Springs that their time at the academy had prepared them "to win, win, win." "Our country is respected again," the president said.
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| Canada’s indigenous try to break vicious cycle tearing families apart Posted: 05 Jun 2019 02:03 PM PDT ![Canada's indigenous try to break vicious cycle tearing families apart]( "Canada's indigenous try to break vicious cycle tearing families apart") Joe Norris, at 81, still wakes up with blood on his pillow some mornings, the result of a blow to the ear that he received as a boy for speaking his indigenous language at the residential school where so many of his generation were sent. The stain represents the violence of forcefully being taken away from his family to a boarding school intended to assimilate indigenous peoples. Today he is playing the role his grandfather did for him, as an elder working with the Red Willow Womyn's Society in the Cowichan Valley, a grassroots network working to stop "child apprehensions," in which the government takes children from their mothers as a last-resort protection, the government maintains, of the children.
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| To impeach or not to impeach? That may be the wrong question Posted: 05 Jun 2019 01:23 PM PDT ![To impeach or not to impeach? That may be the wrong question]( "To impeach or not to impeach? That may be the wrong question") Yes or no: Do you favor impeaching President Donald Trump? Support for impeachment has been slowly rising among Democrats in Congress, within the large Democratic presidential field, and among the American people. Now that retired special counsel Robert Mueller has spoken publicly about his Trump-Russia investigation, effectively leaving next steps to Congress, the question has gained fresh urgency.
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| Conflict shut schools. A teen teaches himself, one toy car at a time. Posted: 05 Jun 2019 12:57 PM PDT ![Conflict shut schools. A teen teaches himself, one toy car at a time.]( "Conflict shut schools. A teen teaches himself, one toy car at a time.") When separatist violence forced 16-year-old Awa Bless Chi to flee his home in Cameroon's North West region earlier this year, there were many things he had to leave behind.
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