Dear Colleagues, A Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable day to you! The leadership team here at PU’s Diversity/Inclusion/Equity (DIE) Office is pleased that so many of you have adopted the practice of land acknowledgment in your email signatures, as demonstrated by the following model statement from a colleague: In community and solidarity, Dr. Margaret “Marge” N. Alisación, Ph. D.
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There seems to be a new trend that when a new leftist government is elected it attempts to change or undermine its country’s court system to remove it as a barrier to consolidating power. During the U.S. election cycle, there was much talk of how an incoming Democratic administration might reshape the Supreme Court. Thus
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Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen. After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in March without a single Republican vote in Congress, Biden proposed a jobs and infrastructure program of $2.2 trillion. He has now added an
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In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., publicly exhorted her supporters to harass cabinet members of the Trump administration. At an outdoor rally in Los Angeles, Waters, with microphone in hand and amplifiers nearby, shouted: “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet
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Update: Paragraph 12 has been added to provide more background information on the economic differences between India and China. In the last seven days India has seen more COVID cases than any other country in the world. The official death toll is over 200,000, although the country’s flawed mortality statistics lead experts to believe that the true
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Recently I spent several days visiting my sister and her husband in their home in Western North Carolina. Both are retired, love gardening and landscaping, and as a result, have spent long and arduous hours making a mini paradise of their property. Here are flower beds, plots for growing tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables—this year
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