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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY FEB. 6, 2017
If I am sick, it's a relief honestly.
I kinda like safe sex on valentines day I gotta
Best advice I've heard today: "Step back, scream into a pillow, and just do it."
Just saw a chevy volt and rolled my eyes. Then saw the trump/ pence bumper sticker. Now my eyes are permanently rolled.
There's nothing more college than making ramen before going out for cheap alcohol when you should be writing a paper.
I just want Frank Mason to notice me, and to love me
Let's see a movie instead of partying, idk if i wanna get my skank on in freezing temperatures
There's a lot of alcohol in my system and I have no idea how it got there.
Do you ever just remember Donald Trump is president and ruin your own day?
If you want to quiet a crowd, just yell penis
I'm so hungry; I should go get some beer.
Dear dude with the Big 12 Victors/Title XI Violators sign, 1. KU is also investigation and 2. Sexual assault is not a punch line
KU Debate Team Rocks!!!!
The toilets in cap fed are flush happy
My outlook on life is positive...ly miserable
Tequila shots chased by a Reese's Egg= college
I aspire to look at life like Bill Walton does.
"You're just about as drunk as a dry strand of spaghetti" -overheard at the hawk
Perry leaves and shit hits the fan.
I'd like to thank my immune system for breaking down on a day I don't have class
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Liston: Reject Kobach's proposed law
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RYAN LISTON
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Racial profiling is an issue across the United States. Law enforcement stop, search or unfairly target racial minorities due to implicit or explicit biases against the minority groups. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach now wants to pass a law that would essentially make it legal to profile Latinos in Kansas.
The bill that would allow Kansas Highway Patrol to enforce federal immigration laws was "conceptually" introduced in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on Thursday, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.
Kobach helped draft similar legislation for Arizona in 2010 that required police to check a person's immigration status when they were stopped or if the police believed the individual was an illegal immigrant. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law in 2012.
If the Arizona law is any indication of what Kobach hopes to enact in Kansas, law enforcement may begin profiling people based on their race without any repercussions. Allowing or requiring law enforcement to question
citizens who appear to be illegal immigrants is almost blatantly stating that law enforcement will legally be allowed to target Latino people because they fit the stereotype of illegal immigrants.
The Arizona law also did not work in practice. In Tucson, the law led to 26,000 immigration checks with only 83 people being taken into custody by the Border Patrol and fewer still being deported, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Furthermore, implementation of the law did not lead to any significant reduction in crime rates, according to the Arizona Republic.
No Latino in Kansas should fear that they will be discriminated against by law enforcement. The only significant outcome of passing Kobach's proposed bill would be an increase in racial profiling against Latino people. We must oppose the proposition and let the state government know that we do not approve of legalized discrimination.
Ryan Liston is a sophomore from Lawrence studying journalism and political science.
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McCarthy: Trump's actions on Wall Street regulations contradict campaign promises
Associated Press President Donald Trump smiles as he announces Judge Neil Gorsuch as his choice for Supreme Court Justice during a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
▶ KEVIN MCCARTHY
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Associated Press Court Justice
One of the central pieces of President Trump's campaign was the promise that he would fight for the "forgotten men and women" of America. Many people have taken this to mean working class Americans who have lost their jobs and others who believe Washington is not working for their interests.
Trump's slogan "drain the swamp" was a promise that he would rid our nation's capital of special interests and lobbyists, but the President's actions have not matched his rhetoric. In fact, all his actions thus far would indicate that he is filling the swamp to capacity with his own special interest friends.
President Trump has also begun taking steps to undo important financial regulations that were put into place by the Obama administration with the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. On Friday, he signed an executive order that involves a review of a series of rules and regulations that were implemented after the 2008 financial crisis with the purpose of protecting consumers and preventing lenders from engaging in the nefarious behavior that led to a near global economic collapse.
While major rollbacks of Dodd-Frank would have to go through Congress first, it is still an unsettling position for the White House to take. I would argue that we need more regulation of Wall Street and large financial institutions because many of the same activities that triggered the Great Recession are still being practiced today.
Despite anti-Wall Street rhetoric on the campaign trail, President Trump has since embraced the financial industry by putting former Goldman Sachs employees on his staff and in his cabinet.
what happened in 2007 and 2008. It truly amazes me how quickly people can have amnesia with regards to this subject.
If this does not worry you, it should.
Sometimes it seems to me that people have forgotten
We must recognize that another financial crisis is a real possibility in the future. Our economic system is based around patterns of booms and busts. Right now, our economy is in much better shape than it was eight or nine years ago, but that could change if these regulations
are undone.
Keeping Wall Street accountable should be a top priority for our leaders. Past events such as the Great Depression, the recession of the early 80s, and the Great Recession of 2008, should be cautionary tales of what can happen when financial regulations are rolled back.
Progress has been made, but there is still a long way to go. The point is that we cannot become complacent
on this issue. If we allow this administration and Congress to lighten regulations on Wall Street, it will have dire consequences for the people President Trump claims to be fighting for.
Kevin McCarthy is a senior from Lenexa studying political science, history and public policy.
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