Liberty students thank first-responders after lockdown

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -

Liberty High School students are saying thank you to the men and women who came to their rescue during a vulnerable time.

Armed with boxes and baked goods, Liberty High School students are saying thank you.

"To show our appreciation for the police officers that showed up at the lock down of Liberty High School," said Liberty student Sunny Dhillon.

April 16th's report of an armed gunman in the Bethlehem school turned out to be a hoax, but hundreds of emergency personnel responded.

Liberty teachers and students say even though they were in lock down, knowing the emergency responders were taking care of the situation made them feel safer.

This is just a token of their gratitude.

"We wanted to go a little further than just shaking hands because they deserve more than that for being there for us," said Dhillon.

"A personal thank you to say we know you run in when everyone else runs out," said teacher Gail Norf.

The students dropped off baskets to police, fire and other emergency personnel, at each stop, the reaction was pretty much the same.

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Liberty loses leading rusher to knee injury

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Lynchburg, VA (SportsNetwork.com) - Liberty University's top rusher Desmond Rice will miss the 2014 season after having surgery Tuesday to repair a torn ACL in his right knee.

Rice, a senior hometown product from Lynchburg, suffered the injury recently.

He earned All-Big South second-team honors last season after rushing for career highs of 967 yards and 16 touchdowns and ranking second in the Big South Conference in yards per rush (5.2).

Coach Turner Gill's post-spring practice depth chart now lists junior D.J. Abnar as Liberty's starting running back. Abnar rushed for 411 yards and six touchdowns last season.

The Flames, coming off an 8-4 record and co-championship in the Big South, will open the 2014 season on the road at North Carolina on Aug. 30 and play their home opener against Brevard on Sept. 13.

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Liberty University Announces 2013-14 President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching

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Lynchburg, Va. (PRWEB) May 01, 2014

Liberty University has announced the winners of the 2014 Presidents Awards for Excellence in Teaching. This is the fourth year that these awards have been presented to demonstrate Libertys commitment to outstanding teaching in both residential and online classrooms. Recipients will be formally honored at the university's Commencement ceremony on May 10 and are awarded monetary gifts. Winners are chosen from a pool of nominees by committees comprised of deans from seven academic areas.

Liberty University 2013-14 Presidents Awards for Excellence in Teaching:

Liberty University Online Graduate: Brian Campbell, Counseling, Center for Counseling & Family Studies Linnaya Graf, Health Professions, School of Health Sciences James A. Swezey, Teacher Education, School of Education

Liberty University Online Undergraduate: Jessil Barboza Fuhr, School of Religion Audrey Lynn Mayberry, College of General Studies Danielle Plomaritas, College of General Studies

Residential Graduate: Edna Udobong, School of Law Michael Davis, History, College of Arts and Sciences

Residential Undergraduate: John E. Marselus, Aviation, School of Aeronautics Nicole Thorn, English and Modern Languages, College of Arts & Sciences Donna Donald, College of General Studies

About Liberty University Liberty University, founded in 1971, is the largest private, nonprofit university in the nation, the largest university in Virginia, and the largest Christian university in the world. Located near the Blue Ridge Mountains on more than 7,000 acres in Lynchburg, Va., Liberty offers more than 350 unique programs of study from the associate to the doctoral level. More than 180 programs are offered online. Libertys mission is to train Champions for Christ with the values, knowledge, and skills essential to impact tomorrows world.

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The Synthesis of Rights and Consequences (with Tom G. Palmer) – Video

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The Synthesis of Rights and Consequences (with Tom G. Palmer)
Typically we think of justifications for libertarianism as falling into one of two kinds of categories: consequentialism and rights-based. Are these two justifications necessarily at odds with...

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Book Talk: Cass Sunstein on Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism – Video

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A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk Professor Cass Sunstein discusses his book Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism. Panelists: Iris Bohnet Richard Fallon Frank I. Michelman...

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Libertarian party candidates visit the Alamo

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SAN ANTONIO Using the Alamo as their backdrop, Libertarian party candidates running for statewide office pledged to open Texas' borders and legalize marijuana at a news conference Thursday.

I believe in the sovereign power of the individual, said Robert Butler, the party's candidate for lieutenant governor.

He then quoted Alamo fighter Davy Crockett, saying, I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is.

Jamie Balagia, a local attorney who also practices in his hometown of Austin, is the party's candidate for Attorney General.

He said if elected, he would enforce the state's laws but make his political views well-known, including his thoughts on legalizing marijuana.

Looking at children visiting the historical mission behind him, Balagia said, I wonder how many of them will end up in handcuffs?

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Rand Paul on his pursuit of Silicon Valley

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Interview by Tory Newmyer

Sen. Rand Paul outside the U.S. Capitol in October, 2013

FORTUNE -- Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican and likely presidential contender, sat down with Fortune's Tory Newmyer in April after his latest swing through Silicon Valley to talk about his efforts to build a base there. Edited excerpts:

You talked in Berkeley about how the Republican Party needs to acknowledge there's something wrong with what it's offering, the way Domino's (DPZ) did with its pizza. What can Silicon Valley teach the Republican Party about making a better pizza?

I think there's a big debate in any political party when they lose. We've lost twice at the presidential level, so everybody's debating what should we do. Half the people say, "We believe too strongly in things and we need to dilute that message a little bit, be a little more like the Democrats or a little bit more moderate to win." I'm of the opinion that with the things that are our core beliefs, we actually should be bolder. So for example, on believing in low taxes and less regulation, our last couple of candidates were for revenue-neutral tax reform -- not sexy, not exciting, and really not destined to do too much to the economy other than shift the tax burden from one person to the other. Frankly, nobody is going to knock on a door for you if you're saying, "Hey I'm for revenue neutral tax reform. Vote for me." And so frankly on our core issues of taxes, regulations, balanced budgets, I think we should be more hardcore, or bolder than we've been.

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But then we have to take our core message and find out other extensions of our message that might attract people if presented to them that haven't been attracted to them in the past. So even on tax cutting, I think we should make the argument that the historical, government stimulus -- Obama had one when he came into office, almost $1 trillion, $800 billion -- that that kind of stimulus doesn't work as well as if we'd cut taxes by $800 billion. They're not equivalent. The reason they're not equivalent is if you're the economy and you give me $800 billion and I give it back, I've got to choose who to give it to. And the way business works is the vast majority of businesses fail. I use the statistic nine out of 10 -- it may or may not be right, it may be eight out of 10. Whatever the number is, the majority of small businesses fail when they start. So if I give the money to you and say, "Start a Pizza Hut," I'll be wrong eight or nine times out of 10. But if you've already got a Pizza Hut and I gave you a reduction in taxes, I'll be right 100% of the time. Give it to somebody who the consumer has voted upon.

What have you learned from your conversations with entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and others in Silicon Valley?

Almost everybody I talk to out there from Peter on will say, "You know what? We think Silicon Valley is a little more libertarian than it is Democrat, even though 80 to 90% of the money went to President Obama." And it's been a deterrent to some Republicans going out there. Many more of them are libertarian-leaning Republicans than they are Democrats, and they may not know it yet. But actually most of them do know it. Frankly a lot of people who supported President Obama will say, "You know what? It turns out I am a lot more fiscally conservative than President Obama on taxes and regulation." They're not happy about either one of those. But they're more moderate on social issues than the Republicans are.

You've got an apparent supporter in Joe Lonsdale. A company he co-founded, Palantir, got startup funding from the CIA venture fund to enhance the surveillance agencies' ability to sort data. What would you say to civil libertarians who look at the capacity they've developed and say it presents the potential for problems?

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