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Eli Bolus, Politics Corner

Meet The Candidates: Ron Paul

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By Eli Bolus

Candidate:  Ron Paul

Political Party: Republican

Qualifications: Congressman of Texas

Website: www.ronpaul2012.com

Stance on Issues

Economy: Wants to restore America to a world economic power by eliminating income taxes, capital gains, and death taxes, and refusing to raise debt ceiling.

Energy:  Remove restrictions on drilling so companies can drill in the U.S. and repeal the federal tax on gasoline, saving 18 cents per gallon.

Education:  Believes that shutting down the Department of Education will improve the quality of education by encouraging homeschooling and private schools.

Environment:  Wants oil drilling in America and believes that global warming is not “a major problem threatening civilization.”

National Security:  Avoid long expensive land wars, abolish the TSA and ensure veterans receive the care, benefits, and honors when they return.

Abortion: Pro-Life

Immigration: Against amnesty, deportation, and a fence on the U.S. Mexico border but thinks the 14th Amendment should be altered to not allow automatic citizenship for people born in America.

Chase Palmer, Eli Bolus, News

Websites protest SOPA by going offline

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By Eli Bolus and Chase Gosman

Today hundreds of websites will go down and be unusable for the remainder of the day.  This is not a technical error but a unified act of defiance to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that will be going through Congress this February.

The SOPA will allow the government to block any website that violates the rules they will set.  For example if a person claims a site is infringing on copyright laws the government can block anyone using an American I.P. from accessing it.  This means user-generated sites like YouTube and Flickr would be affected greatly.

As expected much of the internet has responded in outrage.  Among the websites going black for the remainder of today are all of Wikipedia’s pages, barring the SOPA page, greenpeace.com and reddit.com.  By going black a website blocks all material.

Websites hope that by doing this more people will become informed of the bill and attempt to contact their congressmen.  Those who would like to learn more about SOPA can read about it on wikipedia.com.

Eli Bolus, News

Whaley takes over as principal today as Jensen accepts promotion

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by: Eli Bolus and Chase Gosman

After 24 years of working on faculty at FC, Louis Jensen has been promoted to director of high schools for the New Albany-Floyd County School Corporation.  Jensen first found out of his promotion 10 days ago.  Former assistant principal Janie Whaley takes over as principal today.

Assistant principal Rob Willman will take Whaley’s former position and Whaley, Willman, and Jensen will move to hire a new dean to fill his place.

Over the next few months Jensen will spend less and less time at FC until he is only coming in periodically. He will also help to acclimate Whaley to her new position and help in hiring another assistant principal; the position will be advertised as a “dean”.

Whaley said she is excited and wants to “keep it extraordinary” at FC.

Check out February’s edition of the Bagpiper for more detailed coverage of this ongoing story.