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As a conscientious voting citizen considering the race for the Republican

candidacy, you may be having a hard time deciding which of the shining stars to support. From Rick Santorum’s lack of support for the LGBT community to Mitt Romney’s questionable financial background to the fact that Ron Paul has seen more vaginas than JFK, your mixed feelings are understandable. We’ll make the choice easy for you. Because you’ll notice we have not yet mentioned Newt Gingrich.Read more...

Newt Gingrich seems to be sitting pretty after a decisive victory over Mitt

Romney in the South Carolina Republican Primary that took place last Saturday night. Gingrich overcame a double-digit deficit in the polls to surge past Romney and claim South Carolina’s delegates, finishing with 41% of the vote.
Romney finished second with 26% of votes. CNN reported that Rick Santorum finished third with 18%, and Ron Paul pulled in 13% of the votes.Read more...

A few weeks ago, I was watching TV and came across a commercial depicting

the cultivation process of lettuce. Inexplicably engaged, I stuck around for the rest of the ad, only to discover that the lettuce—so fresh, so green, so perfectly misted—ended up at McDonalds. As a loyal customer of the Golden Arches, I had to investigate; this was a far cry from the feel-good “I’m lovin’ it” ads of the past. It turns out that this is all part of McDonalds’ “Meet the Farmers” initiative, pioneered in order to restore faith in their ability to integrate fresh produce into their food.Read more...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Preventing Real Online Threats

to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP Act or PIPA) are two proposed pieces of legislation currently before Congress that aim to fight theft and trafficking of copyrighted information, intellectual property, and counterfeit goods.Read more...

Amidst the ashes of the most violent protests since the ones that brought the February ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt continued onwards with the historical, but controversial elections to select a new parliament.

The results of the election will decide the new parliament that will be tasked with amending or writing the new Egyptian constitution. The three-day elections began on Monday, November 28th. But while these are the first free elections in decades, they are a source of contention across nearly all cleavages in society.Read more...

The magnolia trees flanking U.Va.’s Rotunda face an uncertain fate as the

University prepares to launch a $4.7 million roof replacement project for Thomas Jefferson’s beloved focal point.Read more...

The 24th annual Virginia Film Festival was held in Charlottesville this weekend. Among other great films, Page One: Inside the New York Times made a fantastic appearance. The documentary followed a few key writers and editors of the New York Times over the course of a year, covering the inner workings of the well-established “legacy” media outlet, as well as raising questions about the future of the publication. In the past 3 years, the rapid decline of print newspapers has caused many major, established papers to go under.Read more...

Circuit Court Judge Ted Hogshire ruled on Monday that George Huguely’s attorneys could have access the medical records of Yeardley Love private before the trial.
The documents will remain unavailable to the public. Cameras have already been banned from the trial to prevent contamination of any more potential jurors. The defense has also requested that pictures of Love’s body not be used in evidence as some of the injuries could have happened during the attempts at resuscitation.Read more...

The former Greek currency, the drachma, stems from the verb “to grasp”, or the idea of “a handful”, specifically a “handful of arrows”. In a twist of linguistic irony, Greece is caught between suffering the economic arrows of either its old currency or the measures imposed by the European Union.Read more...