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Conservative Corner: The shady history behind the Clinton Foundation

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CONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor   The Clinton Foundation has been in the national headlines lately, and for good reason: this foundation reeks of corruption. The Foundation may have recently just announced that it would not accept foreign donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, according to CNN, but it’s very......
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Conservative Corner: searching for the perfect VP

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Assistant News Editor   After the last few primaries, the focus of the election has shifted to the general election. Who the nominees will pick as their running mates has been a hotly contested issue in the media lately. This election will be a very close one, and......
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An award-winning ‘queer, disabled femme of color’ WSU presents Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   Lambda Award-winning author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha — who identifies as a queer, disabled femme of color — served as the third annual Women’s Herstory Month keynote speaker on the evening of April 6. Lakshmi is a winner of a Lambda Literary Award for her poetry......
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Hillary’s ‘inevitability’ runs out Clinton drops out of presidential race to knit sweaters

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THE FEVER Assistant Lampoonist   In an M. Night Shyamalan style plot twist, Hillary Clinton has announced that she has dropped out of the presidential race, despite being the frontrunner for the democratic nomination. The shocking announcement came in the form of a live stream from her home in Chappaqua,......
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OpEd: Politics and War

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  JOSHUA ADKINS Special to The Leader Hearing the words “campaign,” “planning,” “deception,” “strategies” and “tactics” — the military is usually the first thing that comes to mind. Not this time. This time it is about politics. A “campaign” is a military term describing a series of operations calculated and......
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Deny Trump, whatever it takes Could a contested convention be in the GOP’s future?

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Assistant News Editor   It seems lately that the talk about the Republican National Convention has focused on having what’s called a “contested convention” rather than having a convention that, effectively, was a coronation for Donald Trump. A contested convention is what happens when none of the nominees......

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