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An Israeli soldier grabs a Palestinian during a march by landowners and activists attempting to plant olive tree saplings near the Israeli settlement Ofra, outside the Palestinian town of Silwad, near the west bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Head to Head: Israel’s human rights violations cannot be ignored

By James Richards February 9, 2015

Get your fingers ready to type out obscenities and flaming rhetoric in the comment section of this story. I say this only because the Israeli government pays university students to spread their propaganda...

Opinion: US shouldn't ignore Boko Haram's terrorism in Nigeria

Opinion: US shouldn’t ignore Boko Haram’s terrorism in Nigeria

By Alex Mendoza February 8, 2015

The Islamic State grabbed headlines yet again last Tuesday when militants released horrifying video footage of a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive. You might not know that two days later, Boko...

Visitors use PlayStation gaming products during the Taipei Game Show in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The game show, one of the leading digital interactive gaming events in Asia, will run from Jan. 28 through Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Opinion: Despite social stigma, eSports is on the rise

By James Richards February 8, 2015

Screams come from the crowd, players hold their head in their hands as the challenger reluctantly picks up his … GameCube controller? Strange though it might seem, high-level video game competitions,...

Pediatrician Charles Goodman poses for photo with the MMR vaccine, an immunization vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella at his practice in Northridge, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Goodman posted a clear notice on his door and on Facebook: His practice will no longer see children whose parents won't get them vaccinated. At left, is his wife, Judith. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Opinion: Parents should be forced to vaccinate their children

By Clarke Perkins February 8, 2015

Yeah, you’re the parent, and you call the shots. We know. But your beliefs shouldn’t put your child or anyone else’s child in jeopardy. The discussion of child vaccinations was rekindled...

President Barack Obama speaks at Central High School, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Phoenix, about the recovering housing sector. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Students should know their different loan options

By Jay Cranford February 5, 2015

One of the great aspects of the American college system is the amount of opportunity given to citizens. In 2012, 71 percent of students who graduated from a four-year college had student loan debt. Regardless...

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Opinion: Mental health treatment should be a priority

By Justin DiCharia February 5, 2015

Saturday night football in Death Valley, watching clouds roll by on the Parade Ground and listening to the Memorial Tower chime the alma mater at noon are better in hues of purple and gold, but one in...

Election officials empty a ballot box to count votes at a polling station, in Athens, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. A Greek state TV exit poll was projecting that anti-bailout party Syriza had won Sunday’s parliamentary elections _ in a historic first for a radical left wing party in Greece. But it was unclear whether Syriza had won a decisive enough victory over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ incumbent conservatives to govern alone. For that, they need a minimum 151 of parliament’s 300 seats. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Opinion: It’s time for America’s voting system to change

By James Richards February 5, 2015

Most people reading this column didn’t vote in the Dec. 6 elections for Louisiana’s senatorial seat, statistically speaking. In fact, many won’t even vote for the next president in 2016....

File - In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 file photo, Jean Paul Bierlein reads the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo outside a newsstand in Nice, southeastern France. When cartoonists at a French publication that had poked fun at the Prophet Muhammad were shot dead, millions around the world felt it as an attack on freedom of speech. Since the rampage, French authorities have arrested dozens of people _ including a comedian _ for appearing to praise the terrorists or encourage more attacks. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Opinion: France should not impose limits on free speech

By Alex Mendoza February 4, 2015

With the one-month anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting fast approaching, Paris police have decided the greatest threat to the public comes not from Islamic terrorists, but from 8-year-old boys. According...

In this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 photo, University of Virginia students walk to fraternities at the start of rush week at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Two fraternities that threatened to defy the University of Virginia's efforts to impose new regulations governing their parties say they will sign the agreement after all. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Opinion: Restrictions on UVA sororities are misguided, sexist

By Clarke Perkins February 4, 2015

For as long as you say “boys will be boys,” they will be. As reported, a woman named Jackie claims she was gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity party on Sept. 28, 2012. After Rolling...

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2014 file photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks in Louisville, Ky. Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are getting most of the attention in the early days of the Republican race for president. But as they court the party’s elite donors, some potential 2016 candidates who are to the right are just as eagerly chasing early support among evangelicals and social conservatives. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Opinion: Investing in education could help decrease poverty in Louisiana

By Justin DiCharia February 4, 2015

Gov. Bobby Jindal prays for the spiritual revival of American traditional values but ignores one of the greatest evils our nation faces — child poverty.  Bring up child poverty and most of Jindal’s...

A group opposed to capital punishment plans over one lawmaker's plan to resurrect the use of firing squads protests outside the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Salt Lake City. The group Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty argues firing squad executions are a gruesome relic of the state's Wild West past that create a media frenzy around condemned inmates. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Opinion: Death penalty is barbaric and should be abolished

By Cody Sibley February 3, 2015

The Supreme Court is giving America another chance to start a conversation about the death penalty and hopefully abolish it for good. The Court decided to hear a case from Oklahoma that could ban the use...

Opinion: Political pundits are ruining news media

Opinion: Political pundits are ruining news media

By Justin DiCharia February 3, 2015

A plane disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, and I woke up to CNN “breaking” the news on conspiracy theories for months. A dud of a snowstorm hit New York, and panic-inducing news coverage exaggerated...