Forum, May 5: Hanover High School mascot change is an important first step
Published: 5/4/2021 10:00:04 PM
Modified: 5/4/2021 10:00:03 PM
Hanover High School mascot change is an important first step
Valley News Sports Editor Greg Fennell did a superb job addressing the decision of the Hanover High School Council to discontinue the use of the Marauder as the school mascot (“Hanover’s mascot move,” May 1).
The coaches of the Hanover High School boys soccer program are grateful to our players, and the entire student body, for meaningfully engaging in discussions about misogyny, sexual violence and their assumptions around masculinity.
We’ve been following the discussions as they have developed, and we’ve been having our own, as well. We support the recent vote from the Council to replace the Marauder mascot and believe it signals an empathy for others and a willingness to address these issues.
It’s time everyone stops saying that America has a gun violence problem. Our situation is nowhere near as superficial as that. We have a violence problem, period, irrespective of what instrument is used in the commission of a crime
Xavier Becerra, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services / Credit: Shutterstock.com
Washington D.C., Jan 21, 2021 / 05:45 am (CNA).- While President Joe Biden has nominated a number of Catholics to serve in his cabinet, some of them have publicly contradicted Church teaching on abortion.
Joe Biden on Wednesday became the 46th president of the United States and only the second Catholic to hold that office.
While U.S. bishops offered him their prayers and congratulations upon his inauguration, and noted areas of agreement such as immigration and protecting the environment, the bishops’ conference also noted that Biden had promoted “policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity, most seriously in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.”
Celebrating The Second Amendment s Legacy
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When I write about gun control, it’s normally to make wonky points about how gun ownership reduces crime by changing the cost-benefit analysis of potential bad guys.
Today, in honor of Bill of Rights Day, let’s change the focus and celebrate the ratification of the 2nd Amendment. It was on this day, back in 1791, that the right to keep and bear arms was added to the Constitution.
To celebrate that freedom, here are some wise observations by some of America’s Founders. We’ll start with Thomas Jefferson.
Here’s what George Mason had to say.
and we are back with tom friedman, david frum and leah libresco. you wrote an article that went viral in the washington post titled i used to think gun control was the answer. my research told me otherwise. quickly summarize what you meant? when i started looking much more deeply at proposals on gun control what i found is some gun control proposals are incoherent. we saw both hillary clinton and kaine this week praise limiting silencers as a response to a las vegas shooting when silencers, you know, are badly named. they don t make guns silent, they make them slightly quieter but noisy. this is the thing i repeated hearing this praise, hearing assault weapons ban praised when assault weapons are just a gun that has too many features snapped on like lego bricks at point of sale, once you take it home you can add them back on yourself. so those kinds of policies are just often incoherent posed by someone who doesn t know anything about guns and they