Couple gets 2 years in ‘caged kids’ case, The Associated Press reports (via Yahoo News).
Excerpts:
A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in wire-and-wood cages were sentenced to two years in prison Thursday, after the parents insisted they were only trying to keep the kids safe.
Michael Gravelle, his face red [...]
I was doing a Google search and came across My Country-My View, a member of the Coalition Against Illegal Immigration.
Ronnysgirl wrote a hilarious entry in reaction to an article about immigration advocates who fasted.
Excerpts from the hilarious entry:
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL????
Well I’m sorry son, but your (you’re) in the wrong Country to be saying this [...]
Our God, these people hate us and have wished horrible things for us. Please answer our prayers and make their insults fall on them!
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is dovetailing with odes to God and country.
When did immigration assume a place next to abortion and traditional marriage as a “family” issue for the religious right??
From Who Would Jesus [...]
Putin says U.S. wants to dominate world, reports Reuters.
Here’s a thought-provoking quote:
“People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves” [Russian President Vladimir Putin]
The United States of America used to be a democracy. As democracy declines in the U.S., I think the U.S. is [...]
Anti-immigrant sentiments fuel Ku Klux Klan resurgence, reports The Christian Science Monitor.
Excerpts:
Gay marriage and urban crime are part of the picture. But, in particular, it is the debate over what to do about the nation’s nearly 35 million immigrants, of whom about 11 million are in the US illegally, that has become the Klan’s main [...]
Gunmen kill 3 illegal immigrants in Arizona, reports The Associated Press (via Yahoo News).
Excerpts:
Officials have not determined who the gunmen were but believe the driver, who was probably a smuggler, escaped along with a guide. They are still at large. At least two of the immigrants were Guatemalan, officials believe.
Authorities were trying to determine [...]
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A security crackdown is under way in Baghdad, The Associated Press reports, via Yahoo News.
Excerpts:
Gunfire rang out across the capital, and the wail of police and ambulance sirens seemed incessant. The buzz of low-flying U.S. helicopters and growl of fighter jets was nonstop above a new crop of government posters and billboards speaking of Baghdad’s [...]
Fox News reports on The Real ID Act.
Some excerpts:
Under the measure[the federally mandated Real ID Act], your new drivers’ license — the one you’ll be required to get starting in 2008 — will take a lot of work on your part. And, if you don’t get it done, you can forget about flying on an [...]
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