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All content by Parker Cramer

Opinion: The greatest of all is this: love thy hater as thyself

By Parker Cramer
May 2, 2013
Federal authorities wearing hazmat suits walk to the home of Everett Dutschke for additional investigation, Tuesday evening, April 23, 2013 in Tupelo, Miss., in connection with the recent ricin attacks. No charges have been filed against Dutschke and he hasn’t been arrested. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Opinion: Ricin-laced letters pose bigger threat to Americans than Boston bombing

By Parker Cramer
April 25, 2013
FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress returns Monday, April 8, 2013, from a two-week spring recess with gun control and immigration high on the Senate's agenda. Short of unanimous support in their own party, Democratic senators have been unable to strike a deal with Republicans for the votes they will need to push background check legislation through the chamber. Reid might delay debate to give bargainers more time, underscoring how crucial the proposal is to the gun control drive. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Opinion: Congress ignores Americans as gun bill fails

By Parker Cramer
April 18, 2013
FILE - This combination of file photos shows Brad Paisley, left, in Hollywood, Calif. on Nov. 1, 2011 and LL Cool J in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. Southern white men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution. So the country music star must have been unsurprised at the days of widespread criticism of his new song “Accidental Racist,” which details the challenges facing a “white man from the southland” and then features LL Cool J rapping a black perspective. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Opinion: Paisley, LL Cool J are ‘Accidentally Terrible’

By Parker Cramer
April 11, 2013
Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, where the court will hear arguments on California’s voter approved ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Opinion: Traditional marriage is dead

By Parker Cramer
March 26, 2013
North Dakota state Sen. Margaret Sitte, R-Bismarck, speaks in favor of HB1305 during the chamber floor debate at the state Capitol, Friday, March 15, 2013 in Bismarck, N.D. The North Dakota Senate overwhelmingly approved two anti-abortion bills Friday, one banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy and another prohibiting the procedure because of genetic defects such as Down syndrome. If the governor signs the measures, North Dakota would be the only state in the U.S. with those laws (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)

Opinion: North Dakota out-aborts Arkansas with six weeks restriction

By Parker Cramer
March 19, 2013
FILE - In this Monday, March 4, 2013 file photo, Gov. Mike Beebe speaks to reporters in a hallway at the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock, Ark. after vetoing legislation that would have banned abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy. By adopting the nation's toughest abortion law in the face of certain legal challenge, Arkansas legislators have exposed sharp tactical divisions within the national anti-abortion movement. The Arkansas ban - which would make exceptions in cases of rape, incest and certain medical contingencies - is scheduled to go into effect 90 days after the current legislative session adjourns. Beebe had vetoed the measure, but was overridden on Wednesday, March 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Opinion: State abortion restriction unconstitutional, won’t hold up

By Parker Cramer
March 14, 2013
People wait in line outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, to listen to oral arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. The justices are hearing arguments in a challenge to the part of the Voting Rights Act that forces places with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to get approval before they make any change in the way elections are held. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Court case proves Alabama definitely still racist

By Parker Cramer
March 7, 2013
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Opinion: Why college males shouldn’t be trusted for sperm donations

By Parker Cramer
February 28, 2013
OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs — which include OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to 3 out of 4 medication overdose deaths. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Opinion: Spike in painkiller overdose deaths highlights underlying addiction

By Parker Cramer
February 21, 2013
File - In this Feb 6, 2013 file photo, from left, Joshua Kusterer, 12, Nach Mitschke, 6, and Wyatt Mitschke, 4, salute as they recite the pledge of allegiance during the “Save Our Scouts” Prayer Vigil and Rally in front of the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Dallas, Texas. In terms of passion and drama, it promises to be a campaign that rivals any big election. For the next 14 weeks, the Boy Scouts of America will be the focus of prayers, petitions and pressure tactics aimed at swaying a planned vote by 1,400 Scout leaders on whether to ease the policy banning gays from membership. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez, File)

Opinion: Boy Scouts bicurious towards admission of gays

By Parker Cramer
February 14, 2013
Opinion: North Korean satellite images: nothing special

Opinion: North Korean satellite images: nothing special

By Parker Cramer
February 5, 2013
The 0.44-pound runt kitten Cheddar sits in a 16-ounce coffee mug. Cats are estimated to kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds annually in the United States.

Opinion: Cats lethal species, top threat to U.S. wildlife

By Parker Cramer
January 30, 2013
Gene Rosen gestures as he speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. On the day of the shooting, Rosen took in four girls and two boys that were sitting at the end of his driveway; they had just run from the school, among the first to escape Friday’s deadly shooting. He ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals he kept there. He gave those to the children, along with some fruit juice and sat with them as the two boys described seeing their teacher being shot. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Opinion: Lunacy the only explanation for avid Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist

By Parker Cramer
January 24, 2013
A man smokes marijuana on the official opening night of Club 64, a marijuana-specific social club, where a New Year's Eve party was held, in Denver, Monday Dec. 31, 2012. On Election Day, Nov. 6, 2012, a plurality of Coloradans voted in favor of Proposition 64 to legalize recreational marijuana. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Opinion: D.C. shouldn’t be the only city with all the fun stuff

By Parker Cramer
January 17, 2013
In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo the exterior of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is seen on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. The museum features Zaha Hadid's signature look: a facade of pleated stainless steel and glass, which distinguishes it from the traditional brick Collegiate Gothic buildings that surround it on Michigan State's north campus. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Opinion: Screw conscience — let Michigan be our guide

By Parker Cramer
November 29, 2012
Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., talks to supporters at his election night watch party in Broussard, La., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/The Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Allyce Andrew) NO SALES

Boustany, Landry race highlights dirty side of politics

By Parker Cramer
November 15, 2012
FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, a medical marijuana plant grows at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, in Seattle. Votes this week by Colorado and Washington to allow adult marijuana possession have prompted what could be a turning point in the nation's conflicted and confusing war on drugs. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Expect federal government to fight marijuana legalization

By Parker Cramer
November 12, 2012
Why I voted for Obama

Why I voted for Obama

By Parker Cramer
November 5, 2012
Debate format should reflect Monday Night Football

Debate format should reflect Monday Night Football

By Parker Cramer
October 31, 2012

Scum of the Girth: Does Louisiana need new anti-bullying laws to protect schoolchildren?

By Parker Cramer
October 24, 2012
Satire is refreshing in political advertisements

Satire is refreshing in political advertisements

By Parker Cramer
October 17, 2012
Abigail Fisher, the Texan involved in the University of Texas affirmative action case, accompanied by her attorney Bert Rein, right, talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in some college admissions. The case could produce new limits on affirmative action at universities, or roll it back entirely. The University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers is at right.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Race has nothing to do with the University of Texas case

By Parker Cramer
October 11, 2012
Cyrus McGoldrick, Advocacy Director for Council on American-Islamic Relations, makes a photo with his cell phone of an anti-Muslim poster on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, in New York's Times Square subway station. A federal court forced the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run the ad by blogger Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, saying it was protected speech under the First Amendment. "As civil rights advocates, we defend Pam Geller's rights as a racist and a bigot," said McGoldrick. "Muslims are tired of being targets while extremes feed their propaganda." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Pro-Israel, anti-jihad ads push free speech boundaries

By Parker Cramer
October 1, 2012

Scum of the Girth: Strategy revision necessary in War on Drugs

By Parker Cramer
September 27, 2012

Scum of the Girth: Farm Bill snaking through congress is welfare for Republicans

By Parker Cramer
September 20, 2012

Scum of the Girth: Crazy semester evident through on, off-campus events

By Parker Cramer
December 4, 2011

Scum of the Girth: Jokes about Muhammad, like all religious figures, fair game

By Parker Cramer
November 10, 2011

Scum of the Girth: We didn’t start the fire, Rick Perry didn’t put it out

By Parker Cramer

September 11, 2011

Scum of the Girth: Raising taxes for the wealthy is an honest, ethical solution

By Parker Cramer
August 29, 2011