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?Leading Weekly Newspaper? gives how-to on how to break the law
2008-06-07 18:04:00 “AL DIA newspaper is the leading Hispanic weekly in Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Northern Delaware region. AL DIA has earned its right to be considered the voice of Latinos.” And here is what that voice is saying: With ICE raids on the increase, the pressing questions are: Can raids be avoided and if they can?t, what can/should ... More About: Break , Weekly , Leading , Newspaper
A Note in Passing
2008-06-06 10:07:00 I got an email this morning, and it got me thinking about this guy: Born right after The Great War ended, he was 4 in 1924, and proud as punch to have a tricycle! He must’ve thought the world couldn’t get any better… at least until The Great Depression set in, and his food became scarce, ... More About: Opinion , Editorial , Note , Passing
Obama, the Arab world is watching?
2008-06-05 11:47:00 I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet ... More About: Science , Global Warming , World , Opinion , Editorial
Unemployment among Latinos is up to 7.3%, report says
2008-06-05 01:05:00 By Nicole Gaouette WASHINGTON — Unemployment among Latinos and particularly Latino immigrants jumped in the last year, according to a report released today by the Pew Hispanic Center. Amid an extended housing market slump, the Pew figures prompted concern among Latino leaders but offered indirect affirmation for immigration enforcement officials about new aggressive enforcement raids. More About: Immigration , Report
One of the most important issues of our time ? global warming
2008-06-04 18:58:00 Doesn’t “one of the most important issues of our time” deserve straight talk and honest discussion? I recently received the following email from Senator Barbara Boxer. All emphasis is mine; my comments are in bold. Dear Friend: On Saturday morning, May 31, I had the honor of presenting the Democrats? national weekly radio address, and I wanted ... More About: Global Warming , Government , Time , Issues , Global
Obama: Your Rights Are Human Rights
2008-06-04 16:31:00 Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (First Amendment to the US Constitution: the Bill of ... More About: Opinion , Human , Rights , Editorial
Obama: Lead for Change, for Good!
2008-06-03 16:16:00 Barack Hussein Obama , you have a chance to be elected president of America, the world’s most powerful nation. Many people think you’re ready to LEAD, especially when you demonstrate -in your speeches, interviews and comments- how you really grasp the path America took to have an Arab-American actually campaigning to be a candidate for election ... More About: Change , Opinion , Editorial , Civil Rights
Obama: Not Your Typical White Persons?
2008-06-02 12:54:00 Dear Hussein Obama , Reading the printed text of some of your speeches and off-the-cuff responses, it occurred to me that you may not be informed of the Causes of the American Civil War. This is understandable, as not many American teachers can really help their students to understand the simple principles of the oneness of humankind, ... More About: Islamic , Opinion , Civil Rights , White
MSM call McClellan a ?turncoat,? ?backstabber? and ?ingrate?
2008-06-02 00:43:00 In a nonstop round of interviews, McClellan has been hit with scathing criticism. Katie Couric asked him how it felt to be called a “turncoat” whose take on the President was “kind of creepy.” Mark McEwen said the author was being called a “backstabber” and an “ingrate.” Mandy Grunwald noted that if the President hadn’t ... More About: Call , Turncoat
Europe?s Anti-Discrimination Madness Goes On and On and On?
2008-06-01 17:35:00 This communiqué from Jean-Marie Le Pen summarizes another directive from the Europe an Union on “multiple discrimination”…. Scarcely had the French Parliament transposed [into the French Constitution] three directives from the EU on the fight against discrimination, than the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to decree a new directive, this one against ... More About: World News , Discrimination , Anti , The Law of Unintended Consequences
Now I get it - fiscal responsibility is only for people with perfect lives!
2008-05-31 23:20:00 And since Democrats are the party of the eternal victim fiscal responsibility is for “everyone else!” Remember Laura Richardson? The California Democrat Congresswoman who recently walked away from the mortgage on her Sacramento home? Well it’s not the first time she’s fallen behind on mortgage payments: [T]he homes she still owns in San Pedro, where her mother ... More About: Government , People , Lives , Perfect , Fiscal
SF Finally Sinking Under Its Own Largesse
2008-05-31 16:56:00 San Francisco is rolling in green. But it is also bleeding red. Monday is Mayor Gavin Newsom’s deadline to submit a budget that erases a $338 million deficit, and he has warned that the city’s fiscal forecast is so bleak that hundreds of city workers could be laid off and services slashed. But it’s not because ... More About: Finally , The Law of Unintended Consequences
How Small Stories Become Big News
2008-05-28 03:59:00 This story was written by John F. Harris. The signature defect of modern political journalism is that it has shredded the ideal of proportionality. Important stories, sometimes the product of months of serious reporting, that in an earlier era would have captured the attention of the entire political-media community and even redirected the course of a presidential ... More About: News , Stories , Opinion , Editorial , Small
Freedom Isn?t Free
2008-05-26 17:57:00 “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy More About: Freedom , Free
The Five ?A?s of Empty Argument
2008-05-25 17:59:00 From Thinking is Dangerous, a concise refresher on 5 of the most-used empty arguments: 1. Argument from Authority 2. Argument from Anecdote 3. Argument by Appeal to Emotion 4. Argument from the Alternative 5. Argument by Ad hominem The article is written from a medical point of view, but we see a lot of those types of arguments in the political ... More About: Discussion , Empty
?Lose weight or else!? Will the nanny state go there? And what might happ
2008-05-24 20:08:00 I recently stumbled upon a blog called Junkfood Science which stated this: Do you ever wonder what kind of policy advice the leaders in your state get? The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, which says it?s a free market think tank that advises government leaders on key policy issues and conducts regular opinion polls, produces a daily ... More About: Government , Weight , Health Care , Lose Weight , Nanny
Hillary: ?Time to Admit Defeat??
2008-05-24 14:32:00 Yes, Hillary says it IS time to admit defeat… Hear it for yourself! (Right-click and “Save as…” to have this ineffable jewel for your own) Grumpy More About: Time , Opinion , Editorial , Obama
Obama: Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Spur Latino Hate
2008-05-23 18:20:00 Who’s inciting racism now? From Newsmax: Presidential candidate Barack Obama used a Florida fundraiser to attack conservative media personalities Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh for their militant stand on immigration policy. Appearing Thursday at the Westin Diplomat near Fort Lauderdale, Obama lashed out at critics of illegal immigrants and migrant workers. During his speech, Obama said, “A ... More About: Immigration , Hate , Latino
Remember those jobs Americans won?t do?
2008-05-21 21:43:00 With the recent ICE raid in Postville, the hiring of illegal immigrants is again in the news. Instead of rehashing what is already all over the web, let’s take a look at the sequela of a previous raid. All emphasis is added. In December 2006 a multi-state raid that included Swift & Co. netted more than ... More About: Economy , Jobs , Immigration , Americans
Because (Berzerkley) law school graduates (think they) know it all
2008-05-18 19:22:00 More from the “Reasons Why I’ve Boycotted Berkeley for Years” files: Some 50 protesters, clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods to emulate the infamous photos of prisoners in Iraq, picketed UC Berkeley’s law school graduation ceremony Saturday, demanding that the university fire Professor John Yoo for his authorship of the Bush administration’s policies on torture. ... More About: Law School , School , Graduates
Kaiser, Health Net to reinstate some policies
2008-05-17 00:17:00 Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer Two health insurers - Kaiser Permanente and Health Net - agreed Thursday to reinstate policies for members who were stripped of their coverage after they incurred medical expenses. Thursday’s actions were part of an investigation by state regulators into the controversial insurance practice of retroactively canceling, or rescinding, health coverage. More About: Health Care , Policies
Feinstein, Lofgren push for immigrant workers
2008-05-17 00:16:00 Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Two of California’s most immigrant-dependent industries - agriculture and Silicon Valley - are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of the labor market, people who pick vegetables and the postgraduate engineers and scientists of Silicon Valley. Sen. Dianne Feinstein attached a farm ... More About: Government , Workers , Immigration , Immigrant
It could have been written for us
2008-05-11 18:11:00 You can call it bull crap, or the nicer sounding Latin term ?stercore tauri,? or simply bull, horse hockey, bollocks, gobbledygook, humbug, Reverend Wright, tall tale, propaganda, fiction, lie, bunkum, spin, or truthiness. Whatever you want to call it, BS can be defined as: ?Communications where reality and truthfulness aren?t nearly as vital as the ... More About: Written
A San Francisco-style 3-way - for public office
2008-05-11 17:32:00 Add this to the “only in San Francisco ” files: This year’s contest for the State Senator to represent half of San Francisco, Marin County and part of Sonoma County is a three-way (no, I’m not going there) between 1) an incumbent recently convicted of campaign finance violations AND reckless driving “after a wild, 30-mile ride ... More About: Government , Office , Public , Style
New spam protection
2008-05-09 19:50:00 I’m happy to announce a change to our comment spam protection. We were previously using a system that held all comments in moderation for approval that were submitted by users who have not previously commented. That, unfortunately, meant that a lot of comments were waiting until we live human beings got off work, ... More About: Spam
Whooping cough outbreak closes school
2008-05-09 18:23:00 A school in West Contra Costa County [California, east of SF bay] was being closed Friday in an attempt to contain an outbreak of Pertussis - also known as Whooping Cough , health officials said Thursday night. The East Bay Waldorf School in El Sobrante posted a notice on school doors indicating that the whooping cough ... More About: Health Care , The Law of Unintended Consequences
Clinton?s Letter to Obama About Florida and Michigan
2008-05-08 23:05:00 Hillary Clinton just sent a formal public letter to Barack Obama calling on him to work to find a resolution to the Florida and Michigan question that reflects the votes in those states and seats their delegations at the convention. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! ... More About: Letter
Who Do YOU Trust?
2008-05-06 06:51:00 ?Trust is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy and civilization is the least understood, most neglected and underestimated possibility of our time.? Stephen Covey When you read the printed words or read the YouTUBE lips of The Female Candidate or The Arab-American Candidate, who do YOU trust? And, if you DO, then ... More About: Opinion , Editorial
Our tax dollars paying for legal representation in CIVIL suits for illegal
2008-05-04 20:26:00 Atty. Gen. Punished For Not Representing Illegal Aliens Thu, 05/01/2008 - 11:15 ? Judicial Watch Blog The U.S. government is withholding a Nebraska public commission?s federal funding to punish the state?s attorney general for refusing to use taxpayer dollars to file lawsuits on behalf of illegal aliens who claimed housing discrimination. Because Nebraska Attorney General Jon ... More About: Immigration , Legal , Suits , Dollars
The madness is spreading
More articles from this author:2008-05-04 19:13:00 We previously posted about a second grade boy in Colorado being allowed - even encouraged - to pretend he is a girl. Now Philadelphia follows suit: For school officials in Haverford Township, the challenge was daunting: What do you do when a 9-year-old student, with the full support of his parents, decides that he is no longer ... More About: Madness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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