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Coach should be let go because of MSU's season

Thirty-one points are a lot to lose by, and when ABC went to another game in the third quarter and never came back, we all knew that MSU had been totally out-played, out-coached and out-classed. I would like to see coach John L.

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Bush's Iraq excuses don't add up

It has been three and a half years since the United States entered Iraq, and it is time to take an inventory of President Bush's multiple explanations for why we're there. 1.

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Re-elect Rogers: He votes to protect U.S. borders

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers and Congress are protecting our borders. A few weeks ago, Rogers voted in favor of stopping illegal immigrants from crossing our borders, deporting violent illegal alien gang members and stopping individuals from building tunnels under the ground near borders.

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Evolution should always be taught

More than a century after Charles Darwin's death, we're still debating evolution. Last week, the Michigan State Board of Education rightfully approved guidelines for public schools to teach evolution, but not intelligent design, in science classes.

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DeVos improves, Granholm still wins

Two down, one to go. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Republican candidate Dick DeVos continued their attacks in the second of three televised debates Tuesday night. While DeVos' speaking ability improved significantly from the first debate just a week before, his pro-business stance was the same.

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'Daily Show' legit? Yeah, we knew that.

Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" is funny, entertaining and apparently just as informative as traditional networks' evening news. An Indiana University study released last week divulged some not-too-surprising information about the news media — Stewart's "fake news" program is "just as substantive" as regular network news coverage. With little context and analysis on most nightly news programs, this shouldn't be a huge shock, but it should be a wake-up call to viewers who consider their network's news coverage more serious and superior to shows like Stewart's. "The Daily Show" shouldn't be brushed off as fluff.

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Career Gallery 2006 showed off best at MSU

Last week, there was a campus event that involved thousands of students and hundreds of multimillion-dollar companies — and it had nothing to do with sports. It was the largest career fair in MSU history: Career Gallery 2006.