Caleb Tolin
MRCTV
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Caleb is a senior Political Science and Communication double major at East Carolina University in North Carolina. In addition to interning at MRCTV, Caleb is the Social Media Manager for the free-market environmentalism and conservation organization The American Conservation Coalition. Caleb plans to pursue a career in political communications in either campaigns or a political organization/nonprofit.

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Caleb Tolin | August 1, 2018
David Casarez, 26, stood on the side of the road in Mountain View, California on Friday morning and wasn’t asking for money or food, but offering resumes with hopes to be considered for a job that he had been looking for for over a year. Casarez's sign, which read “Homeless, Hungry 4 Success, Take a Resume,” was photographed by someone passing by. The driver, named Jasmine Scofield, tweeted…
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Caleb Tolin | July 31, 2018
On Saturday, the Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge in North Carolina was met with a protest from local vegans that they called a “Vigil for Fish.” “Contestants will take boats out to sea to compete in various categories for various prizes, including cash. We will hold our vigil at the marina in the place where they weigh the fish they have killed,” read the description on their event,…
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Caleb Tolin | July 31, 2018
According to a new study done by the Mercatus Center, a libertarian-based Koch policy center, Senator Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan would cost the United States over $32 trillion in taxpayer dollars over the next 10 years and would more than double our national debt. And that's a “conservative estimate." “Doubling all currently projected federal individual and corporate income tax…
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Caleb Tolin | July 30, 2018
Two history professors at University of Virginia handed in their resignation letters after a former Trump aide was awarded a one-year fellowship at the college.  In a joint resignation letter, William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. Leffler both resigned from their positions at UVA because former Trump aide Marc Short was given a one-year fellowship at the Miller Center for Government Affairs. Short…
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Caleb Tolin | July 30, 2018
Thomas Tramaglini, 42, the superintendent of Kenilworth School District in New Jersey, has resigned as of Thursday last week after he was named a lead suspect in the search for a person who was defecating next to a local high school track every day.  Tramaglini was charged with “public urination or defecation, discarding and dumping of litter and lewdness” which was occuring “on a daily…
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Caleb Tolin | July 30, 2018
In an opinion article for NBC News, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voiced some interesting opinions on the concept of bail in our correctional and judicial systems. He thinks we should ditch bail because it has “criminalized poverty.” “And yet in 2016, more than 65 percent of the over 700,000 people in county or city jails on any given day in the United States were 'unconvicted' — meaning that more…
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Caleb Tolin | July 27, 2018
A new report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, found that the U.S. wasted about $15.5 billion in taxpayer funds in Afghanistan over the last decade. Up to $15.5B of US taxpayer dollars identified as waste, fraud & abuse & failed whole-of-govt reconstruction in #Afghanistan between 2008 & 2018 https://t.co/OfbSdrhWzC — SIGAR…
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Caleb Tolin | July 27, 2018
Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking Harvey Weinstein misconduct allegations, has reportedly been accused of sexual misconduct himself, including unwanted kissing and touching. While nothing has been confirmed, the original report is soon to be released by The New Yorker, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken…
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Caleb Tolin | July 27, 2018
(Mohammad Tareq Yousef) Mohammad Tareq Yousef, 17, went on a rampage Thursday night after crossing out of Kobar, the settlement where he lived in the West Bank, into Adam, when he stabbed three Israelis including a young father of two. Yousef killed Yotam Ovadia, 31, father to a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old, and who worked as a technician with the Brinks security company. While Ovadia was the…
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Caleb Tolin | July 26, 2018
On Sunday, the crew on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s yacht, SeaQuest, woke up to find the boat they were on was, shockingly, no longer attached to the dock. After struggling to gain control of the boat, the crew managed to get it stable, but not before it scraped the dock and caused up to $10,000 worth of damages. The SeaQuest was docked on Lake Erie in Ohio this past weekend when it was…