Caleb Tolin
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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 | June 14, 2018
A group of activists in Columbus, Ohio, are partnering with Progress Ohio to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Renaissance Hotel in Columbus this Friday. The group of activists plan to protest “by dancing outside the hotel and performances including DJs and drag queens.” The aim of the protest is to stand against the VP’s past statements regarding LGBT rights and issues. Co-…
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Caleb Tolin | June 14, 2018
Researchers wanted to figure out what the majority of American Christians think God’s face looks like and the results are interesting. The researchers surveyed 511 American Christians broken down by age, gender, race, political ideology, and self-identified attractiveness. All of these categories were assigned a generic visual perception depending upon the category’s quality. The participants…
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Caleb Tolin | June 13, 2018
A male, gender-fluid ballet dancer is the first to dance, as a female, in the English National Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty. Chase Johnsey is a self-identified gender-fluid ballerina who has taken extreme measures to achieve his goal of performing as a female. He has gotten cosmetic facial surgery to appear more feminine. He also went to significant lengths to lose muscle mass, but…
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Caleb Tolin | June 12, 2018
Domino’s Pizza is as fed up with crappy infrastructure as we are. The company has started a new campaign called Paving for Pizza, where towns can get funding to fix their damaged roads. Though the project isn’t likely to fix widespread infrastructure problems, it certainly brings attention to an issue that the government hasn’t handled well. William Galston, from the Brookings Institution, told…
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Caleb Tolin | June 12, 2018
Former President Bill Clinton managed to dig his own hole a little deeper in yet another interview about #MeToo, sexual harassment, and Monica Lewinsky. In his PBS News Hour interview with Judy Woodruff, Clinton was asked whether he sees changes in how the D.C. political circuit handles sexual harassment since Sen. Al Franken’s scandal as change for the better. “Well, in general, I think it’s a…
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Caleb Tolin | June 12, 2018
In an interview with CNN this week, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed that "real wages," which are adjusted for inflation, aren’t rising. “Do you know what the increase in real wages for the average American worker was last year? Zero," Sanders claimed. When later asked to back up that statement, Sanders’ press office cited a survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But FactCheck.org…
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Caleb Tolin | June 8, 2018
Sunday evening, Demi Lovato tweeted that she was bored and wanted to do a Twitter Q&A. While most of her responses were light-hearted and relatable, one tweet rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way. When asked what the funniest prank she ever pulled was, she told an interesting little story about her bodyguard, Max. She wrote “I hired a lady of the night in Vegas and sent her to Max’s hotel…
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Caleb Tolin | June 8, 2018
According to a new Gallup poll, American approval for euthanasia is on the rise. The report finds that approval of the practice has almost doubled since the late 1940s - climbing to a whopping approval rating of 72 percent. The poll does distinguish between voluntary euthanasia, where someone other than a doctor administers lethal medication to a terminally ill patient, and physician-assisted…
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Caleb Tolin | June 7, 2018
U.S. diplomats to China are being sent back to America after exhibiting “neurological symptoms” after hearing weird noises. And this isn’t the first time this has happened. Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the issue, stating that these new symptoms were “entirely consistent” with what was found in a similar investigation regarding diplomats in Havana, Cuba, and could…
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Caleb Tolin | June 7, 2018
The new president of Cuba, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, announced new plans to rewrite their constitution to begin “opening up” the nation's laws. However, his avenues to achieve this are questionable. The plans for this new constitution include legalizing same-sex marriage, presidential term limits, and more. The first proposed draft of the new constitution will have to be approved by the…