In Denver, Colorado, several immigrant support groups are petitioning to have the law enforcement in their area ban the usage of system wide fingerprinting to specifically identify illegal aliens in custody. Currently in some areas, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a program called Secure Communities to run fingerprints of any individual booked against FBI criminal history records. The prints are also ran against the Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine if the person is in the country illegally or if they have prior arrest records.
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Everybody makes mistakes, isn’t it? And some great scholars and philosophers even justify saying that mistakes are a stride towards achieving success.
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According to the Thomson Reuters Healthcare Sentiment Index, consumers are less optimistic about their ability to pay for health care than they were last year. American consumer confidence slipped by five points between December 2009 and July 2010. There was a brief uptick in April, after the healthcare reform law passed.
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Not long ago, a very well known academic think tank type in China set off on a journey to publish a book which was a little bit of history and a little bit of critique on the Chinese leadership, Red Army leadership, and the general direction of the economy, foreign relations, and internal challenges of hyper-growth. When interviewed he said that he knows of the risks of publishing this book, in that he might be imprisoned, or even disappear when he does.
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By removing one of the major causes of obesity, sugary, high fructose corn syrup soft drinks on city property only, San Francisco encourages those using vending machines to pick an alternative. If the person really wants a soft drink, well, hey, they can go across the street to a liquor store and get it.
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This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge most of the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits (big oil, neoconservative ideology, the Zionist lobby, and President Bush’s world outlook), this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture: the political economy of war and militarism. The study is unique not only for its thorough examin
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You’d think it would be simple to wage a campaign for elected office – you determine what issues are important to you, what you plan to do if elected, then you hit the trail and attempt to convince voters that you’re the best candidate for the job. And yet increasingly – and sadly – campaigns are devolving into a game of who can make the other guy look bad.
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Now, teachers have abandoned whatever moral high ground they might have held thanks to the deliberately calculated threat to Matric exams by some trade union leaders; while education departments seem to be completely out of touch with, or naive about, conditions on the ground with their advice to pupils. Some schools included propagandistic letters from trade unions in notices sent to parents and guardians on Friday, informing them about the strike and leaving it up to them to decide if they want to send their children to school today. Others schools encouraged pupils to stay at home.
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This week, the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian people will meet in Washington with the hope of working out a peace agreement. Automatically, there is a lot of skepticism. Haven’t they been trying to find peace for years? “There will never be peace there.”
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What do Groundhog’s Day, The Godfather, and American politics have in common? Just about everything.
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